In Texas, 3rd - 6th grade students have the opportunity to vote on their favorite book from a list of 20 nominated books - The Bluebonnet Award. To help my students make an educated decision on which book to vote for, we looked at criteria for award-winning books. With this lesson they listed their ideas of what makes a good book and then listened to me read aloud a recent award-winning book. I chose Beautiful Blackbird by Ashley Bryan (a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Winner). We also explored the criteria to win a Coretta Scott King Award. Through the process students then created their own criteria of how they will choose the Bluebonnet Award winner. At the end of the lesson we then looked at how to find other award-winning books using the online catalog.
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