This practical handbook provides more than 30 ready-to-use lesson plans that connect picture books to the national language arts standards set forth by NCTE and IRA. Designed for the primary grades, all lessons have been classroom tested and come with dozens of reproducible patterns and worksheets. Each lesson plan includes bibliographic information, a description of the standards applied in the lesson, skills and objectives, grade level, lists of props and materials, costume ideas, a step-by-step lesson description, comprehension questions, and follow-up activities. A wonderful tool for anyone who works with young students, this guide will generate hours of creative exploration, learning, and delight. Grades K-3

BRENDA S. COPELAND has been an elementary librarian for the past six years in Palmyra School District, Palmyra, Pennsylvania. She earned her MLS degree from Kutztown University and her BA in Elementary Education at the University of Delaware.

PATRICIA A. MESSNER has been an elementary media specialist for the past seventeen years in the Lebanon City School District, Lebanon, Ohio. She earned her Masters of Education degree from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio and her BA in Elementary Education at Asbury College, Wilmore, Kentucky.