Garden State Book Award
Non-Fiction
Robert S. Siebert
Non-fiction book awards
Notable Social
Studies Trade
Book Awards
Carter G.
Woodson
Book Award
a.k.a - Informational Text
Books that contain facts and real events. The information can be verified by other sources for accuracy ​and up-to-date information. Non-fiction is organized using a table of contents, indexes, glossaries, and reference sources.
Ancient Civilizations
Beyond our Library
Recommendations
Biography
Who was Albert Einsten
March Book One – True story of John Lewis by Andrew Ayden & Kate Powell
Balloons over Broadway by Melissa Sweet
Paleontology
Baby Mammoth Mummy Frozen in Time by Christopher Sloan (grades 3-7)
Sports
Odd Ball by Timothy Tucher
We are the Ship – The Story of Negro League Baseball by Kadir Nelson
Animals
Actual Size by Steve Jenkins
Jimmy the Joey (National Geographic) by Deborah Lee Rose
Bats Biggest Littlest by Sandra Markle
Frogs by Nic Bishop
Glow by WH Beck
Giant Squid by Candace Fleming
Insects
Ladybugs by Gail Gibbons
Good Trick Walking Stick by Sheri Mabry Bestor
Dinosaurs
DK Eyewitness Books
Scientists in the Field – follows scientists doing their jobs
Magic School Bus
Planets, Solar System, Outer Space by Seymour Simon
The Illinois Holocaust Museum’s literature-based teaching trunk program provides K – 12 educators with a wide array of resources for classroom units on character education, human rights, the Holocaust and/or genocide. Each trunk allows educators to create meaningful, age/grade appropriate lessons employing award – winning fiction, non-fiction, historical reference materials, as well as DVDs and teaching posters. The focus of each trunk has been carefully developed to address State and National Learning Standards, including Common Core State Standards.
Evaluating Non-Fiction / Informational Texts
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Accurate – publisher quality, data accurate, author qualifications, and experts consulted
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Up-to-Date – age more quickly than others (software and computers for example)
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Avoids stereotypes – evaluate multicultural aspects, balance the collection
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Perspective – audience, different viewpoints, why was it written?
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Purpose – browsing (facts), comprehensive (survey of field), specialized topic (specific area), research, etc.
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Organization and Style – indexing, table of contents, sources, and author’s note – can students understand it!
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