The winners! handbook : a closer look at Judy Freeman's top-rated children's books of 2010 : grades PreK-6

This standard professional handbook offers comprehensive, thoroughly annotated lists of the best children's books of 2010, plus lesson plans, teacher's guides, stories, songs, and Internet resources.

The WINNERS! Handbook: A Closer Look at Judy Freeman's Top-Rated Children's Books of 2010 is built around a list of the 100 best books of the year. Each entry includes a meaty and thoughtful annotation, a germ (a series of practical, pithy ideas for reading, writing, and illustrating prompts and other activities across the curriculum), a useful list of exemplary related titles, and subject designations to help you ascertain where the book might fit thematically into your curricular plan or program.



Like all of the previous editions, this book provides scores of useful and fun ideas, activities, lessons, and ways to incorporate literature into every aspect of your day. From story hour to curriculum tie-ins, the many connections here include everything from strategies for comprehension to games, crafts, songs, creative drama, booktalking, and more.

The annotated booklist: 100+ best children's books of 2010. Easy fiction/picture books -- Fiction books -- Nonfiction and biography books -- Poetry and folklore books -- Books Judy chose not to review for this program -- Young adult books for grades 7 and up -- Celebrating children's books. Things to consider when reading and discussing books -- 20 basic questions to ask yourself when evaluating a new book -- Winners & losers form -- Judy Freeman's list of memorable authors & illustrators -- Youth media awards -- Freeman's favorites, 2001-2010 -- Judy Freeman's best of the best of the decade -- How Rocket Learned to Read lesson, Grades K-1 -- Interrupting Fairy Tales: A lesson plan for grades 2-4 -- The loud book -- Zooku: Writing animal haiku -- Time to eat, Hippo the hippo -- Knuffle Bunny Free: A writing and illustrating prompt -- Knuffle Bunny Free: A lesson plan -- Lollipop vignettes: A lesson plan for grades 2-4 -- Clementine, Friend of the Week teacher's guide -- Make up your own portmanteau -- Instructions for making origami Yoda -- More origami Yoda tricks -- I can read your mind -- I Feel Better with a Frog in My Throat worksheet -- Bones! word search -- Bones! crossword puzzle -- Do you know lizards? worksheet -- Biography hash -- 99 exemplary picture book biographies for grades 2-6 -- Create an instant tall tale -- Using reader's theater -- RT performance tips for actors -- Reader's theater script: A Bedtime for Bear -- Reader's theater script: The 3 Little Dassies -- Reader's theater script: Clever Jack Takes the Cake -- Reader's theater script: Animal Crackers Fly the Coop -- Reader's theater script: Spaceheads -- Judy Freeman's songbook -- Judy Freeman's storybook. Ha Ha Ha: Heard Any Good Jokes Lately? -- The Chicken in the Library -- Cecil Was a Caterpillar -- The Bremen Town Musicians -- Surfing the net. Listservs -- Publishers' websites -- Education and library publications -- Poetry websites -- Creative drama and reader's theater websites -- Folklore and storytelling websites -- Judy Freeman's favorite children's literature blogs -- More children's literature-based websites and blogs -- 69 exemplary children's book author and illustrator websites -- Author and title index -- Subject index.