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A Movie in My Pillow / Una pelicula en mi almohada. Story by Jorge Argueta and illustrations by Elizabeth Gómez.
Books About Community
My Very Own Room / Mi propio cuartito. Story by Amada Irma Pérez and illustrations by Maya Christina Gonzalez.
Grandma and Me at the Flea / Los meros meros remateros. Story by Juan Felipe Herrera and illustrations by Anita DeLucio-Brock.
Angels Ride Bikes and Other Fall Poems / Los Angeles andan en bicicleta y otros poemas del otoño. Poems by Francisco Alarcón and illustrations by Maya Christina Gonzalez.
Iguanas in the Snow and Other Winter Poems / Iguanas en la nieve y otros poemas del invierno. Poems by Francisco Alarcón and illustrations by Maya Christina Gonzalez.
Books About Immigrant Kids
The Upside Down Boy / El niño de cabeza. Story by Juan Felipe Herrera and illustrations by Elizabeth Gómez.
My Diary from Here to There / Mi diario de aquí hasta allá. Story by Amada Irma Pérez and illustrations by Maya Christina Gonzalez.
Aekyung's Dream. Story and illustrations by Min Paek.
Friends from the Other Side / Amigos del otro lado. Story by Gloria Anzaldúa and illustrations by Consuelo Méndez.
Super Cilantro Girl / La superniña del cilantro. Story by Juan Felipe Herrera and illustrations by Honorio Robledo Tapia.
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For images of artwork by Diego Rivera, Georgia
O'Keeffe, and Vincent Van Gogh, go to the Artcyclopedia
website at http://artcyclopedia.com/
and follow the links:
Rivera
O'Keeffe
Van Gogh
For even more images of flowers, go to www.artcyclopedia.com/subjects/Flowers.html
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To learn more about flowers, go to Yahooligans!
and type the word flowers into the search engine.
You'll find pictures, explanations of why flowers smell,
and an “Ask Earl” page that answers some basic
flower questions. www.yahooligans.com
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http://www.hud.gov/kids/hthsplsh.html Department of Housing and Urban Development includes facts and information aimed at children.
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On the bilingual web page El Salvador en Imagenes, you will find amazing photographs illustrating a range of Salvadoran life. Picture galleries include “traditions,” “tropical flowers,” and “countryside,” among many others. http://www.4elsalvador.com/
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On the Lonely Planet website, you can find basic information about Salvadoran history, culture, and environment.
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Miguel De Loza is a fifth grade bilingual Language Arts and Social Studies teacher at Garfield Charter School in Menlo Park, CA. Building on the strengths of students' cultures, backgrounds, abilities, and experiences, Garfield Charter School cultivates the values of respect, responsibility, and community involvement. The school's mission is to continue to provide a replicable, sustainable, equitable model for quality education in Spanish and English.
Alexandra Freidus, former Director of Community Partnerships at Children's Book Press, teaches integrated Language Arts and Social Studies at Berkeley High School. Alexandra was a consultant for this Teacher's Guide.
Loretta Torres is a second grade bilingual two-way (Spanish Immersion and Spanish as a Second Language) teacher at Fairmount Elementary School in San Francisco, CA. Fairmount views all members of the community as teachers and learners, offering many programs supporting learning for families as well as students.
Christina Velasco is a fourth and fifth grade teacher at Fairmount Elementary School's Spanish immersion program. She is a Bay Area Writing Project teacher consultant and taught a writing course for educators at UC Berkeley in the summer of 2004.
Please share your own ideas for how to use Xochitl and the Flowers in the classroom. We'll be pleased to post your work on the website for other teachers to use. Email us your lesson plans at educators@childrensbookpress.org.
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