the monarch award: illinois’ k-3 children’s choice award sponsored by islma schools/libraries...
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The Monarch Award:Illinois’ K-3 Children’s Choice Award
• Sponsored by ISLMA• Schools/libraries
register/participate• Master List of 20 titles• Award given annually
to book voted favorite by K-3 children
• Specifics at website: www.islma.org/ monarch.htm
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Monarch 2005 Winner
• 95,000 K-3 children voted!
• Winner–David Gets in
Trouble by David Shannon
• Second Place–Hooway for
Wodney Wat by Helen Lester
• Third Place–I Will Never Not
Ever Eat a Tomato by Lauren
Child
Important Dates
• Nominate for 2008 by October 15, 2006
• Register for 2006 by January 15, 2006
• Read August 05-February 06• Vote by February 28, 2006• 2006 Winner announced in
mid-March NIU and IRC• Author honored at ISLMA Fall
conference 2006
Monarch Management
• Obtain at least 12 of the 20 titles, multiple copies.• Code with stickers, orange tape, label protectors. • Prepare displays and bulletin boards to promote.• Provide bibliographies, bookmarks and checklists.• Encourage student, teacher, parent participation.• Collaborate with public library/school library. • Ensure voting eligibility of students.• Establish voting procedures.
More FAQ/Ideas
• Carson Dellosa has monarch stickers to mark books.
• Follett is making a poster.• Scholastic book fairs carry titles.• Rotate books to classrooms. • Read 5 or more to each class so all can vote.• Make Monarch books Reading Counts or AR.• PS or 4th…participate, but don’t send votes.
Monarch at Carl Sandburg
Actual Size
• By Steve Jenkins• Parts or the whole of
various creatures, large and small, are illustrated by gorgeous torn and cut paper collages in “actual” size.”
• Caldecott: What Can You Do with a Tail?
• Make collages.• Research animals in
book.
Aero and Officer Mike
• By Joan Plummer Russell
• The partnership of a police officer and his K-9 companion at work and at play are revealed in this photo essay made in Shaker Heights, Ohio.
• Pair with Officer Buckle and Gloria.
• Invite an officer/K-9.
Bear Snores On
• By Karma Wilson• In a hibernation story
gone awry, Bear’s friends hide from the weather in his cave and have a party as “bear snores on.”
• Learn about hibernation.
• Sequels: Bear Stays Up for Christmas and Bear Wants More
Biscuit’s New Trick
• By Alyssa Satin Capucilli• Repeated attempts to
learn to “fetch” are finally met with success when Biscuit distresses his mistress by retrieving the ball from the mud.
• Visit Biscuit’s website.• Read other Biscuit books
partners or whole group!
Book! Book! Book!
• By Debora Bruss• Bored when the kids
return to school, a group of farm animals meets with eventual success as they try to borrow a book at the library.
• Pair with other animal jokes/library stories.