Award winning books

In January, the newest award winning books are announced.  The ALA (American Librarian Association) awards many different awards for a variety of books by American authors.  At Wattsburg Elementary Center, the library teaches three main awards to the students: Caldecott (for the illustrations), the Newbery (for the writing), and Geisel award (for younger readers). 

Every year, I try to chose one of the newest award winners to read to the students.  Then each grade does a different activity to expand on the read aloud.

This year, I chose to read the same book to all of my students in Kindergarten to Fourth.  We read the following book:

Brendan Wenzel's Webpage
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In addition, some of my first and second graders jumped into half of Caldecott book entitled "Finding Winnie".  This story within a story has the students intrigued to learn more this week!

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Grade 3 and 4 completed a "scavenger hunt" to find one Caldecott book and one Newbery book in the library.  This worksheet is a simple way to encourage students to find new and different choices!


Feel free to use this worksheet - I have customized it so that students can locate the stickers on the spine of the book denoting which award it won!  (I will place it on my site on Monday since it is on my work computer at work!

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Caldecott Award winners

Newbery Award winners

Geisel Award winners

Worksheet: