Picture Book Resources
One Grain of Rice by Demi
Demi retells a folktale from India about a girl who fools a raja into giving her one little grain of rice, but doubling the amount every day. The beautiful illustrations show how many grains of rice the raja must handover in the subsequent days and weeks. Great for visually introducing multiplication or exponents, or for those studying India or folk tales.
Animalia by Graeme Base
Graeme Base illustrates a beautiful and fun alphabet book with alliterative lines about various animals. In addition, hidden in every page is a drawing of Graeme and hundreds of things that start with that letter. Obviously, this can be used to help teach the alphabet and animals. In addition, it can be used in language arts for teaching alliteration. I have also used it to help students work on visual acuity by finding hidden items, and in Biology by having my students classify animals they found in the book into Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, and Species.
Chapter Book Resource
Bloomability by Sharon Creech
There are very few books out there specifically about international students, but this is one of them. The heroine of the story, Dinnie, joins her aunt and uncle for a year as they teach at an international school in Switzerland. She experiences many of the typical emotions, joys, and challenges of a TCK. It is well written, and Sharon Creech knows what she’s talking about; she taught overseas for many years.
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