Easy Implementation That Extends to the Home
Teaching Guide
About the Books Content and Goals: The Self-Awareness book pack features characters who learn about themselves by interacting with others and exploring their environment. Send the books home along with the student journals and family guides to help students: • discover who they are and build confidence . • see themselves in the stories. • make connections to develop a deeper understanding of the text.
Classroom Conversations Motivate your students to read independently at home by including post-reading communal class activities that they won’t want to miss. Each book in this My Books Every Day pack includes four classroom activity prompts to promote comprehension and personal connection.
Teachers are provided with four kinds of activities for each book: write, discuss, create, and poll .
Sample Prompts
Self-Awareness Book Pack
Book 1: Blackout DESCRIPTION
J OHN ROCCO
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Description
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On a hot summer night in the city, the power goes out. No TV, no phones, no computers—what’s a family to do? Stargaze, eat ice cream before it melts, and enjoy being together.
Blackout On a hot summer night in the city, the power goes out. No TV, no phones, no computers—what’s a family to do? Stargaze, eat ice cream before it melts, and enjoy being together. My Family Adventure Sofia is a fantastic problem-solver. With the help of her sisters and cousins, she figures out how to shine in her school photo, find a lost pet, and make her abuela’s birthday extra special.
This edition is only available for distribution through the school market.
www.scholastic.com
330L
PreK–2
J OHN ROCCO
1. WRITE At the beginning of the book, each member of the family is doing something different. When your family is home, what is everyone doing? Write one sentence for each family member, describing their favorite activities. Include your pets! 2. DISCUSS Why do you think playing board games was important to the child in the story? What about you? Do you like to play games with family and friends? Why or why not? Are you serious about winning, or do you just play for fun? Or would you rather be doing something else? 3. CREATE When the lights are off, the family makes shadow puppets, eats ice cream, and plays board games. Draw or write about your favorite thing to do “offline” (without electricity). 4. POLL Which idea do you think best captures what this book is about? Explain your choice. • Loneliness and togetherness • Darkness • A change from routine
This edition is only available for distribution through the school market.
www.scholastic.com Classroom Conversations are adaptable for all classroom learning environments . Sofia Martinez has a big personality and big plans, which makes every día memorable. Between her sisters and cousins, her familia is the focus of her many aventuras. From taking school pictures to doing chores, this 7-year-old knows how to make every moment count. Sofia Martinez has una vida fantástica! Big Dreams. Aventuras Grandes.
How to Fit This Into Your Literacy Block
360L
1–3
Includes SPANISH WORDS and glossary!
Whole group , if you assign the books consecutively Small groups , if you have students self-select books by complexity or interest Teaching reading comprehension strategies , such as: making personal connections to a text to draw on prior knowledge and experience; inferencing; or summarizing End with a reminder to read or review the next set of picture book pages for tomorrow, or the next set of chapters for the next week.
$4.95 US
ISBN 978-1-338-18323-8
This edition is available for distribution only through the school market.
50495
9 781338 183238
Super Narwhal and Jelly Jolt Narwhal decides to become a superhero but doesn’t know what his superpower is. Luckily, his two friends Jelly and Star—and even his frenemy, Crab—help him figure it out.
GN510L
1–4
$5.99 US
This edition is available for distribution only through the school market.
ISBN 978-1-338-28272-6
9 781338 282726 Family Literacy Messages come prewritten in English and Spanish to send home via 50599 This edition is only available for distribution through the school market. text and email , and range from book- specific prompts to general literacy tips. MOMMY’S HOMETOWN Hope Lim illustrated by Jaime Kim A #1 New York Times best-selling illustrator scholastic.com Hope Lim is a children’s book author with a BA in English literature as well as an MA in conference interpretation. She is the author of I Am a Bird , illustrated by Hyewon Yum. This story was inspired by the changes she noticed to her own hometown while visiting with her son and husband. Born and raised in South Korea, Hope Lim now lives with her family in San Francisco. Jaime Kim was born and raised in Korea before moving to the United States at the age of eighteen. She is the author-illustrator of Ready for the Spotlight! and the illustrator of many books for young readers, including La La La: A Story of Hope by Kate DiCamillo, And Then Comes Summer by Tom Brenner, Around the Table That Grandad Built by Melanie Heuiser Hill, Isle of You by David LaRochelle, and Welcome to Your World by Smriti Prasadam-Halls. Jaime Kim lives in North Carolina. MommysHome_9781339034324_COV.indd 1 3/13/23 9:51 AM Illustrations by LORRAINE NAM By JENNIFER BERNE With an introduction by NEIL de GRASSE TYSON NEIL de GRASSE TYSON: A Life Among the Stars
Mommy’s Hometown When a boy and his mother visit the Korean village where she grew up, he is surprised to see that it has become a big city. But one thing remains the same from her stories—the river she played in as a child. Look Up With Me When astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson was a child, he went to the Hayden Planetarium in New York City, fell in love with the stars, and decided to share his passion for outer space with the whole world.
AD580L
PreK–2
AD860L
2–4
Get prompts for all five books mybookseveryday.scholastic.com Password: Contact your school administrator.
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Reading Levels: The book pack includes books of varying complexity to provide multiple entry points for students reading at different levels.
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All Classroom Conversations and Family Literacy Messages can be accessed on the educator digital resource site , along with digital versions of all print materials.
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