The Caldecott Medal will be announced later this month. I've played around with the concept of having students vote on the book they feel deserves the medal, but this month I'm collaborating with Grade 2 and 3 teachers to really study the ideas behind the Caldecott Medal before voting on their favourites. Here's our plan: 1. I've chosen ten picture books that were all published in 2019. Now, I understand that in order to qualify for a Caldecott, the illustrator must be an American citizen, and the book must be published within the US. Because we're Canadian, we have chosen some Canadian authors and illustrators anyway, because we feel they are worthy, and it's not about choosing correctly. Really, we certainly do not have the access to books that the members of the American Library Association does and the chances of us predicting the winner and pretty slim. So, here are the ten picture books that we will be studying:
2. The next step is to read the books to the students. The teachers will do this each day for ten days. After reading the books, they will discuss the story, author's purpose, and especially the illustrations, and they will track this information on an anchor chart. 3. The students need to know about the Caldecott Medal, so this will be our next step. We will teach them about what the honour is all about, and study some past Caldecott winners and honour books (like runners-up). We'll collect as many as we can from past years (Finding Winnie was the winner in 2016) and let the students peruse them and compare the illustrations. 4. Now it's time to vote. students will each receive their own evaluation booklet which I created (below). Each page in the booklet includes a table with a set of five criteria. I pulled this information from the ALA's Caldecott site, and rewrote it to be more child-friendly.
6. After arriving at this decision, they will then present to the rest of the class their choice for the Caldecott Medal. We will total all the individual votes and announce which three books received top scores for our class picks.
7. When the Caldecott Medal is announced at the end of January, we will watch the video of the announcement and see if any of our books were bestow with this honour. That's the plan. I'll be back to share with you how it's going. :)
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