Coretta Scott King Book Award materials from TeachingBooks

I almost never promote or endorse a product/resource on the Blue Skunk, but this will be the exception. I've known Nick Glass and we've used his Teaching Books in our district. He is a good guy and TB is a good resource. Find below information about a free resource he is offering that looks useful.

Hi Doug,

I'm writing because I really like your blog and believe your readership would value knowing about the Coretta Scott King Book Award Online Curriculum Resource Center—a free, multimedia, online database for educators and families featuring more than 250 original recordings with award-winning authors and illustrators and hundreds of lesson plans. It is a great reading resource as teachers, librarians, and families plan for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and Black History Month.

http://TeachingBooks.net/csk

The resource center includes more than nine hours of originally produced audio with Coretta Scott King Book Award (CSK) authors and illustrators talking about their books in two- to three-minute clips. Searches can be executed by author, illustrator, title, grade level, and curriculum area, as well as by the year or specific Coretta Scott King Book Award citation.

In addition to free, online primary source materials (audio recordings and book readings), the collection features hundreds of lesson plans and original movies filmed in the studios of some of the award-winning authors and illustrators.

My favorite way to use this is to select "All" and then scroll through the cover images of all 231 different books that have received this great honor.

Thank you for considering sharing this resource widely and creatively. Put the link on your blog, write about it on your website, email it to friends and family, etc. This is a free resource, and we'll be updating it for years to come by adding resources and recording original audio clips with future CSK award recipients.

Working on this project has been a tremendous pleasure and privilege. We did it to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Coretta Scott King Book Awards! The resource center was recently selected for inclusion in the American Library Association's Great Web Sites for Kids! If you would like more context about the creation of this resource center, please see my blog post about it at: http://forum.teachingbooks.net/?p=2476

Thank you again for your consideration of promoting with your readership The Coretta Scott King Book Award Online Curriculum Resource Center, and keep up the great work with your blog. If I can ever be of assistance, please ask.

My best,

Nick Glass

Nick Glass
Founder & Principal
TeachingBooks.net
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http://www.TeachingBooks.net/csk



Comments

[The Brain Lair]

Wow. That is so generous of them. I will be sure to link to this on my school and personal blog. What a great resource!

[Doug Johnson]

Hi Brain,

Thanks for the note of appreciation. I hope that Nick reads it!

Doug

[Nick Glass]

Thanks Doug for sharing this CSK book award resource. Just to clarify, it is an absolutely free collection that I hope is enjoyed and is useful for your readers. Anyone may use and link to it.

I've just arrived in Boston for the ALA midwinter conference and am excited to see who wins this year. There were some great books this year! -- best, Nick