CULTURAL LITERACY We all have cultural traditions

and customs to share, but we often choose literature and characters that we identify with ourselves.

As a faculty and staff that does not match our student population, are we allowing our students to identify with the literature we are using in class?

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THIS YEAR’S CHALLENGE FOR THE BLACKSHEAR BOOK PARADE Choose a diverse book to share with

your students the week of February 9th. Celebrate cultural differences of your

students and our community Help us “Paint the Community with

Peace” by joining the school in a cultural literature parade on February 13th at 1:30

WHERE TO FIND A BOOK? Books are pulled and in my office in the

library Check out our ebooks from Capstone,

Mackin and Tumblebooks on Studentnet Literature is preferred to nonfiction Folklore from other cultures is also an

option

SEARCH THE LIBRARY Look for folklore, cultures, or non-fiction

books at our library http://www2.youseemore.com/kleinisd/school.asp?SchoolType=3&sID=89

BOOK SUGGESTIONS FOR PREK-2ND My name is Gabito : the life of Gabriel Garcia Marquez = Me llamo Gabito : la vida de

Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Brown, Monica. Collection: Biography, Call #: 921 GAR

Marisol McDonald doesn't match. Brown, Monica. Collection: Easy, Call #: E BRO

The name jar. Choi, Yangsook. Collection: Easy, Call #: E CHO

Hairs = Pelitos. Cisneros, Sandra. Collection: Easy, Call #: E CIS

Rain play. Cotten, Cynthia. Collection: Easy, Call #: E COT

Quinito, day and night. Cumpiano, Ina. Collection: Easy, Call #: E CUM

Everybody cooks rice. Dooley, Norah. Collection: Easy, Call #: E DOO

Oh, brother!. Grimes, Nikki. Collection: Easy, Call #: E GRI

Amazing Grace. Hoffman, Mary. Collection: Easy, Call #: E HOF

Goggles!. Keats, Ezra Jack. Collection: Easy, Call #: E KEA

Mirandy and Brother Wind. McKissack, Pat. Collection: Easy, Call #: E MCK

The sandwich swap. Rania. Collection: Easy, Call #: E RAN

Tar Beach. Ringgold, Faith. Collection: Easy, Call #: E RIN

Jazzy Miz Mozetta. Roberts, Brenda C. Collection: Easy, Call #: E ROB

Jingle dancer. Smith, Cynthia Leitich. Collection: Easy, Call #: E SMI

Too many tamales. Soto, Gary. Collection: Easy, Call #: E SOT

BOOK SUGGESTIONS FOR PREK-2ND What can you do with a paleta?. Tafolla, Carmen. Collection: Easy, Call #: E TAF I love my hair!. Tarpley, Natasha. Collection: Easy, Call #: E TAR Round is a tortilla : a book of shapes. Thong, Roseanne. Collection: Easy, Call #: E

THO Suki's kimono. Uegaki, Chieri. Collection: Easy, Call #: E UEG The cazuela that the farm maiden stirred. Vamos, Samantha R. Collection: Easy,

Call #: E VAM Pecan pie baby. Woodson, Jacqueline. Collection: Easy, Call #: E WOO The twins' blanket. Yum, Hyewon. Collection: Easy, Call #: E YUM John Henry [electronic resource]. Jones, Christianne C. Collection: eBook, Call #:

EBK 398.2 JON Stitchin' and pullin' : a Gee's Bend quilt. McKissack, Pat. Collection: Fiction, Call #:

F MCK To be a kid. Ajmera, Maya. Collection: Nonfiction, Call #: 305.23 AJM Whoever you are. Fox, Mem. Collection: Nonfiction, Call #: 305.8 FOX The people could fly : the picture book. Hamilton, Virginia. Collection: Nonfiction,

Call #: 398.2 HAM Honey, I love. Greenfield, Eloise. Collection: Nonfiction, Call #: 811 GRE Hush! : a Thai lullaby. Ho, Minfong. Collection: Nonfiction, Call #: 811 HO My people. Hughes, Langston. Collection: Nonfiction, Call #: 811 HUG Sopa de frijoles : un poema para cocinar = Bean soup: a cooking poem. Argueta,

Jorge. Collection: Nonfiction, Call #: 861 ARG

BOOK SUGGESTIONS FOR 3RD-5TH Through my eyes. Bridges, Ruby. Collection: Biography, Call #: 921 BRI Mirror. Baker, Jeannie. Collection: Easy, Call #: E BAK Lucky beans. Birtha, Becky. Collection: Easy, Call #: E BIR Ling & Ting : not exactly the same!. Lin, Grace. Collection: Easy, Call #: E

LIN Looking like me. Myers, Walter Dean. Collection: Easy, Call #: E MYE Nana's big surprise = Nana, que sorpresa!. Perez, Amada Irma. Collection:

Easy, Call #: E PER Four feet, two sandals. Williams, Karen Lynn. Collection: Easy, Call #: E WIL Rickshaw girl. Perkins, Mitali. Collection: Fiction, Call #: F PER The composition. Skarmeta, Antonio. Collection: Fiction, Call #: F SKA Show way. Woodson, Jacqueline. Collection: Fiction, Call #: F WOO The people could fly : American Black folktales. Hamilton, Virginia.

Collection: Nonfiction, Call #: 398.2 HAM John Henry. Lester, Julius. Collection: Nonfiction, Call #: 398.21 LES Ellington was not a street. Shange, Ntozake. Collection: Nonfiction, Call #:

811 SHA In daddy's arms I am tall : African Americans celebrating

fathers. Collection: Nonfiction, Call #: 811.0