This slideshow presents the Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2014. Outstanding books in the area of social studies are chosen annually by a committee sponsored by the Children's Book Council and the National Council of Social Studies. Karen Hildebrand, a member of the committee, prepared this powerpoint for conference presentations and professional development opportunities.

1. Notable Social Studies
Trade Books
2014
Presented by Karen Hildebrand
Selection committee member

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handouts:
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3. Book Review
Committee
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The National Council
For Social Studies
The Children’s Book
Council
Since 1972
Email:
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4. For children in grades K-12
Published in 2013
Criteria:
~ emphasize human relations
~ represent a diversity of groups
~ sensitive to a broad range of cultural experiences
~ present an original theme or a fresh slant on a traditional
topic
~ easily readable
~ high literary quality
~ pleasing format
~ where appropriate, include illustrations that enrich
the text

5. Thematic Strands of the NCSS Curriculum
Standards for Social Studies
• Culture
• Time, Continuity, and Change
• People, Places, and Environments
• Individual Development and Identity
• Individuals, Groups, and Institutions
• Power, Authority, and Governance
• Production, Distribution, and Consumption
• Science, Technology, and Society
• Global Connections
• Civic Ideals and Practices

7. Key Ideas and Details:
~ cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources
~ determine central ideas of information of primary or secondary source
~ provide an accurate summary of the source distinct from prior knowledge or opinions
~ identify key steps in a text’s description of a process related to history/social studies
(how a bill becomes a law; how interest rates are raised or lowered
Craft and Structure
~ determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in text
~ vocabulary specific to domains related to history/social studies
~ describe how a text presents information (sequentially, comparatively, causally)
~ identify aspects of text that reveal author’s point of view or purpose
(loaded language, inclusion or avoidance of particular facts)
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
~ integrate visual information (charts, graphs, photographs, videos ,maps)
~ distinguish among fact, opinion, and reasoned judgment in a text
~ analyze relationship between a primary and secondary source on same topic
Range of Reading Level of Text Complexity
~ read and comprehend history/social studies texts in grades 6-8 text complexity band
independently and proficiently

8. Examining the Evidence:
Seven Strategies for
Teaching with Primary Sources
Hilary Mae Austin
Kathleen Thompson
Capstone Press, 2015
http://www.capstonepub.com/product/9781625216304

9. Many Texts, Many Voices;
Teaching Literacy and
Social Justice to
Young Learners in the
Digital Age
Penny Silvers
Mary C. Shorey
Stenhouse Press, 2012
http://www.stenhouse.com/html/many-texts-many-voices.htm

10. Maya Angelou
1928-2014

11. PICTURE
BOOKS

12. Jonathan Bean

13. Laura Vaccaro Seeger

18. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2b24Ewk934g

19. Alvaro F. Villa

22. Gujarat,
India
Hindu
Caste system

26. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ca1ikQioetM
http://librarianinacandyshop.blogspot.com/2013/07/pancho-rabbit-and-coyote-by-
duncan.html
http://duncantonatiuh.wordpress.com/
Resources for Pancho and the Coyote:

27. Set in Mauritania.
Tradition of the
malafa.

28. Rachel Isadora

29. Ecuador

30. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knCDoBEiv3M

31. http://www.chitradivakaruni.com/
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

33. Barbara Brown

36. P A U L F L E I S C H M A N

37. Picture Books
Based on
Actual events or
Family stories

40. http://www.nationalww2museum.org/learn/knit-your-bit/

43. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VLjZPqJqE0

44. Helen Foster James &
Virginia Shin-Mui Loh

45. Icy Smith

46. 1943-1945 Occupation of Hong Kong

47. Illustrator and Author Allen Say
Yuriko

51. Founder of Earth Day,
Denis Hayes, 1970

53. PICTURE
BOOK
BIOGRAPHIES

58. Clive Campbell, 1970’s – Hip Hop

60. http://www.nelsonmandela.org/content/page/speeches

63. Henrietta Leavitt,
Pioneering
Woman
Astronomer
1890s

64. Author: Julie Cummins
How Ruth Elder
Soared into
America’s Heart

65. 1821-
1910

68. H. Joseph Hopkins
Kate Sessions:
The True Story
of How One
Tree-Loving Woman
Changed a City Forever
1880’s

71. The voice of Frost’s
oldest
daughter, Lesley

72. Nonfiction/
Informational Text
Picture Books

74. Aleksandra & Daniel
Mizielinski

77. https://www.teachervision.com/tv/printables/macmillan/frog-song_tg.pdf

78. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HlMdUtEf00

80. Judith & Dennis Fradin

82. Zeni
Kenichi
Zeni
Zenimura

85. http://deborahleerose.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Jimmy-the-Joey-Teachers-Guide-
FINAL-lo-res.pdf
Port Macquarie,
Australia

86. Jill Robinson
Chengdu, China

88. ~ Jumping in puddles can inspire scuba diving.
~ Dirty hands can lead to dinosaur bones!
~ Backyard star-gazing inspires
future astronauts.

92. Roxane Orgill

97. Russell Freedman

101. Kathleen Krull
and
Kathryn Hewitt

104. NON-FICTION -
INFORMATIONAL
TEXT

105. http://www.hbook.com/2013/08/authors-illustrators/five-questions-for-mitali-perkins/#_

113. Russell Freedman

114. Martin W. Sandler

115. Mary Losure
1798

116. Amy
Ehrlich

117. Sean Callery

118. Sean Stewart Price

120. http://shelleypearsall.com/JumpInToTheSky_EG_WEB.pdf

122. Wartime secret agent
Pearl Witherington
Cornioley

124. HISTORICAL &
CONTEMPORARY
FICTION

126. Monica Edinger

131. Hindu or Jewish? Both??
Tara (Hindi: “star”)
Feinstein

132. “A picture is worth
a thousand words.”

134. Tuscarora Native
Reservation,
New York State
1975
Lewis Blake and George Haddonfield

135. 1830
Mississippi

136. MAL PEET

139. Katie Quirk
Tanzania, 1970s-
Shida hopes to become
a healer

142. 1870, Louisiana –
Reconstruction
Chinese workers

143. 1739 - Fort Mose,
Spanish Florida

145. 1871 - Placid, Wisconsin
Passenger pigeons, counterfeiters &
Missing persons

149. 1854

150. “The Wonders of a
London Water Drop”
Punch magazine. 1850
The image depicts a
cartoonist's
impression of a drop
of water, from the
River Thames, under a
microscope. It reveals
what 'creatures' might
live there and, in turn,
what Londoners could
be swallowing on a
daily basis.

151. The Broad Street Pump
Dr. John Snow Memorial
Rev. Henry Whitehead
Dr. John Snow

152. Victoria McKernan
1860’s
San Francisco

153. Willow Chance

154. Makah
Indians,
1920s
Whale
Hunters

155. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZE_xydfsOc

160. Muskegon, Michigan

162. 1898
Boxer
Rebellion
In
China

163. Poetry

167. http://www.annburg.com/SerafinaTheCommonCore.html
Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Earthquake victim

168. http://myaamiahistory.wordpress.com/
2013/11/12/faqssalt/

169. Based on the real life of Odette Myers.
From her autobiography,
“Doors to Madame Marie”

170. Tula: Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda, mid 1800’s

171. Displacement
Loneliness
Bullying
Romance
Loyalty
Forgiveness

172. but …

173. Scott O’Dell
Historical Fiction Award

175. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPmmh_h2c9U

176. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYnJSpiufUU

178. As seen by
Matt James

179. The Mad Potter of Biloxi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1TY2JNDxdU

181. http://www.socialstudies.org/notable

182. http://delightfulchildrensbooks.com/2013/08/22/social-studies-nonfiction-picture-books/
Barbara Kerley
Jeanette Winter
Monica Brown
Kadir Nelson
Deborah Hopkinson
Betsy and Giulio Maestro
Andrea Davis Pinkney
Joseph Bruchac
Jean Fritz
Russell Freedman

183. Questions? Comments?
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