NCE Candid Conversation: Digital Book Magic
This webinar focuses on alternative literacy strategies and content-area instruction for teachers whose students do not have access to physical books in virtual learning environments. Presenters include Dora M. Guzman, a bilingual reading specialist (K-5) in Bensenville School District 2 and a current NLU doctoral candidate in the Reading, Language, & Literacy program, Karyn Keenen, a 3rd-grade Nationally Board Certified Teacher in Literacy in the Winnetka Public Schools, and Ruth Quiroa, ph.D. an associate professor of Reading & Language at National Louis University and a former kindergarten and bilingual (Spanish/English) second grade teacher.
- Learning more about P-12 digital and audiobooks, particularly titles with diverse themes and international texts.
- Gaining ideas for accessing and utilizing digital books’ companion resources (e.g., book trailers, author interviews, youth literature conferences specifically for students, teachers, and parents).
- Discovering ways to make book magic and (re)design or supplement existing literacy and content-area patterns of instructional practice in the digital space.
View a recording of the Digital Book Magic webinar
View the slide deck from the webinar: Digital Book Magic Webinar Slides
Webinar Resource List
Websites
- Archive.org
- Learning Ally—must document that the child has a disability but is free.
Picture books:
- Black is a rainbow color written by Angela Joy, illustrated by Edua Holmes (2020). Roaring Book Press.
- We are Water Protectors written by Carole Lindstrom, illustrated by Michaela Goade
Upper Elementary/Middle School Readers:
- Brave. Black. First: 50+ African American Women Who Changed the World, written by Cheryl Willis Hudson and Illustrated by Erin K. Robinson (2020). Crown Books for Young Readers (National Museum of African American History & Culture and Smithsonian.
- Land of Cranes by Aida Salazar (2020). Scholastic Press.
- This book is anti-racist: 20 lessons on how to wake up, take action, and do the work, written by Tiffany Jewell; illustrated by Aurélia Durand (2020). Frances Lincoln Children’s Books.
- The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora by Pablo Cartaya
- All the Way to Havana by Margarita Engle, Illustrated by Mike Curato
Middle School and lower High School: (a bonus book not mentioned in the webinar)
- Stamped written: Racism, antiracism, and you by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi (2020). Little Brown Books for Young Readers.
