Category Archives: process skills

Teaching Process Skills with Children’s Literature: The Great Graph Contest

The Great Graph Contest written and illustrated by Loreen Leedy is a colorful children’s book that tells the story of a graph contest between two friends.  During the contest a salamander, Beezy, and a frog, Gonk, create different graphs using … Continue reading

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Teaching Process Skills with Children’s Literature: The Magic School Bus and the Science Fair Expedition

  The Magic School Bus series, written by Joanna Cole and illustrated by Bruce Degen’s, has been helping children learn about different spheres of education curriculum for years. This specific book, focusing on a science fair expedition, gives the students … Continue reading

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Teaching Process Skills with Children’s Literature: Hands Can

Introduction Hands Can written by Cheryl Willis Hudson and photographs taken by John-Francis Bourke is a rhyming children’s book that teaches children to learn with a hands-on approach. This book uses bright and colorful photos of children using their own hands … Continue reading

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Teaching Process Skills with Children’s Literature: Rare Treasure

Rare Treasure Mary Anning and Her Remarkable Discoveries written and illustrated by Don Brown is a brief biography of her life and a small window into the field of paleontology. The story begins by letting the reader know that Mary was … Continue reading

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Teaching Process Skills with Children’s Literature: How Tall How Short How Faraway

How Tall, How Short, How Faraway by David A. Adler is a children’s story designed to inform it’s readers about the different types of measurement and how they originated. How Tall, How Short, How Faraway displays units of measure by … Continue reading

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Teaching Process Skills with Children’s Literature: Starry Messenger

Starry Messenger, written by Peter Sís is an extremely child friendly biography of the famous philosopher and astronomist Galileo Galilee.  This book could be used with a wide variety of children of different ages and reading levels. The main story … Continue reading

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Teaching Process Skills with Children’s Literature: Big Tracks, Little Tracks Following Animal Prints

Introduction: Being able to classify and identify objects in the world has become an important apsect of the elementary curriculm. Children are required to be able to differentiate between different animals, especially relating to certain characteristics such as color and … Continue reading

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Teaching Process Skills with Children’s Literature: Big and Small, Room for All

Big and Small, Room for All, written by Jo Ellen Bogart, is a wonderfully illustrated new book that introduces young children to the concept of size and how they fit in the world. Using simple language and eye-catching watercolor paintings, this book successfully explains … Continue reading

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Teaching Process Skills with Children’s Literature: Millions to Measure

Millions to Measure is part of a great series of books by David Schwartz that deals with measurements in length, weight, and volume. It explores how the metric system came about and explains how to measure using the metric system. … Continue reading

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Teaching Process Skills with Children’s Literature: I See Myself

I See Myself, written by Vicki Cobb and illustrated by Julia Gorton, follows a young girl exploring why she can see herself in some objects, like in a mirror or car window, but not in others.  Throughout the book, children start to … Continue reading

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