Introducing a new collection of United States books from Davidson Titles for the fifth grade core curriculum titled, A Guide to American States. These books are Media Enhanced so information will always be current. There are audio segments, videos, links to other websites, printable activity pages, quizzes and vocabulary words that correlate with the text, beautiful photographs and more.
During the third through sixth grade class visits to the LMC, the new media enhanced state books were introduced. I chose California as the state to introduce because many students have been there or heard of this gorgeous, diverse state in our union. The document camera and the laptop computer were used to teach the students how to use these books with the various media enhancements to increase their research capabilities with these books.
The teachers are thrilled with these books! I asked a third grade teacher if she would be interested in this state book lesson for her students and she said yes. After the introductory lesson was taught, one fifth grade teacher assigned each of her students to check out one state book during their class visit. Another teacher knew of this teacher's assignment and let her students know they will be required to check these state books out for an assignment the following week. Students are not only checking them out because they are assigned to, but for their own interest as well. They want to know more about the state they are going to visit, where a family member lives, or where they were born, etc. Within four days the students checked out every state book from the collection and several were placed on hold.
Great way to use and promote non-fiction in the classroom! Awesome work!
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