Looking for some ideas for integrating children’s literature into social studies instruction? These sites offer some great starting points.
40 Books About Labor
http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/books/detailListBooks.asp?idBookLists=104
40 Books About Peace and Social Justice
http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/books/detailListBooks.asp?idBookLists=77
Around the World in 22 Books
http://www.ala.org/ala/booklinksbucket/aroundtheworldin22books.htm
Carter G. Woodson Book Award Winners
http://www.socialstudies.org/awards/woodson/
Children’s Books That Build Character
http://www.charactercounts.org/booklist.php
Children Caught in War
http://www.ala.org/ala/booklinksbucket/childrencaught.htm
Children’s Literature with Social Studies Themes
http://www.udel.edu/dssep/literature.html
EconKids: Rutgers University Project on Economics and Children
http://econkids.rutgers.edu/
Economics and Geography Lessons for 32 Children’s Books
http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/curriculum/socialstd/Econ_Geog.html
Global Reading: Selected Literature for Children and Teens Set in Other Countries
http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/books/detailListBooks.asp?idBookLists=280
Great Picture Books to Teach Social Studies, 4-6
http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/instructor/social_books_46.htm
Great Picture Books to Teach Social Studies, K-3
http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/instructor/social_books_k3.htm
Growing Up Around the World: Books as Passports to Global Understanding
http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/alscresources/booklists/GrowingUpAroundWorld.htm
KidsEconBooks
http://www.kidseconbooks.com/html/literature_connection.html
Literature for Children and Teenagers About WWII
http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/books/detailListBooks.asp?idBookLists=274
Notable Trade Books for Young People (NCSS)
http://www.socialstudies.org/resources/notable/
One Hundred Picture Books for Peace
http://www.mvls.info/lists/peace.html
Opening Doors to Social Studies with Children’s Literature
http://teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/tlresources/units/byrnes-literature/lit.html
Pages of the Past: History/Social Science Literature K-6
http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/literature/k6/
PBS Teacher Recommended Books for Social Studies
http://www.pbs.org/teachers/bookslinks/linkspages/socialstudies-archive.html
Picture Perfect Geography
http://www.ala.org/ala/booklinksbucket/pictureperfectgeography.htm
Social Studies Literature Articles
http://www.udel.edu/dssep/articles.htm
Stories From the Silk Road
http://www.ala.org/ala/booklinksbucket/SilkRoad.pdf
Traveling Through American History (Children’s Fiction Books on 1492 through 1990s)
http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/library/reading/elem/pichistorychron.HTM
If you have a link to suggest, please leave a comment and I will review the site for inclusion on this list.
Are there any picture books about immigration that you’d recommend, in particular, for upper elementary school children?
Hi Stacy,
Try this thematic list for books on contemporary immigration.
http://missrumphiuseffect.blogspot.com/2007/02/new-to-america-living-immigrant-life.html
If you want historical, let me know and I’ll see what I can put together.