49 Books to Help You Get Ready for Back to School
Kerri Brown Parker, director of the NC State College of Education’s Media and Education Technology Resource Center (METRC), curated two lists of book recommendations for summer reading to jump start back to school preparations. The first focuses on culturally diverse texts that resonate and move young readers, as well as increase their social-emotional learning. These books can be used either for K-12 students in your classroom or added to your own bookshelf at home. The second list includes recently published works related to education that will add to your professional development.
[button]Download the Summer Reading List → [/button]
[spotlight-box label=”” img=”” heading=”Where To Read These Titles” cta=”” url=””]If you are an NC State College of Education student, faculty or staff member, each of the titles in this list are available in the Media and Education Technology Resource Center (METRC) or online through our ebook services.[/spotlight-box]What is your summer reading plan? Maybe you spent June relaxing with some beach reads and are now ready to “get serious” about reading. I just finished the most recent Stephen King novel; and while King’s books have had a re-birth with middle school and high school students after the movie IT, it’s time for me to get back to true young adult, elementary and professional books. So I’ve jumped into the world of YA with The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue and The Hate U Give.
In selecting books to read, I look for what moves kids to read or moves and changes kids after they’ve read a text. As educators, it’s important to keep up with professional texts and also to know the children’s and young adult literature that can impact who our students become as well as help them learn about the world. The “classics” of professional education and children’s literature can be endlessly debated, so this list focuses on more recently published works (within the last two years) that are making an impact on education and on students. We have also elected to focus the children’s books selections to those that speak to empathy and social-emotional learning as an important part of the complete education of our students. —Kerri Brown Parker, Director of METRC
- Books Promoting Cultural Diversity and Empathy in Young Readers
- 14 Books That Will Help You Grow as an Educator
Books Promoting Cultural Diversity and Empathy in Young Readers |
Middle Grades & Young Adult:
Picture Books:
|
14 Books That Will Help You Grow as an Educator |
[spotlight-box label=”” img=”” heading=”#OnePackOneBook” cta=”Learn More” url=”https://newstudents.dasa.ncsu.edu/commonreading/”]In addition to these books, consider adding Kathryn J. Edin and H. Luke Shaefer’s $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America to your reading list. This nonfiction title is NC State’s Fall 2018 common reading selection.[/spotlight-box]
|
[button]Download the Summer Reading List→ [/button]
- Categories:
