Post on 20-May-2015
ALSC WebinarNewbery and CaldecottMock Elections Tool Kit
Presented by
Steven Engelfried
Served on 2002 Caldecott Committee
Presenter: Steven Engelfried
Youth Services Librarian at the Wilsonville Public
Library (OR)
Served on 2010 Newbery Committee
Chair of the 2013 Newbery Committee
2001 Edition by
Kathleen Simonetta, Nancy Hackett,
& Linda Ward-Callaghan.
1994 edition by
Linda Ward-Callaghan & Kathleen Staerkel
Digital Download Information available at the ALA Store
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Agenda
– Types of Mock Awards – Choosing books– Award Criteria– Evaluating and Discussing Books– Voting– Q & A
Types of Mock Elections
• Format – Length – Half day– Full day– Multiple days
• For this webinar we’ll generally assume Full Day
Types of Mock Elections
• Format – Setting– Live and in person– Electronic
• Heavy Medal
Heavy Medal: A Mock Newbery Bloghttp://blog.schoollibraryjournal.com/heavymedal/
Types of Mock Elections
• Format – Setting– Live and in person– Electronic
• Heavy Medal• Beaverton School District
Beaverton School District Newbery Blog[url is private]
Beaverton School District Newbery Blog [url is private]
Beaverton School District Newbery Blog [url is private]
Types of Mock Elections
• Audience– Kids– Adults
• In this webinar, we’ll look at both audiences at times
• Preparation Checklist
Newbery and Caldecott Mock Elections Tool Kit sample page
Newbery and Caldecott Mock Elections Tool Kit attachments list
Newbery and Caldecott Mock Elections Tool Kit sample attachment
Types of Mock Elections
• Book choices– Newbery & Caldecott from current year– Other awards from the current year
Robert F. Sibert Medal http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/sibertmedal/index.cfm
ALSC Book and Media Awards http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/index.cfm
Types of Mock Elections
• Book choices– Newbery & Caldecott from current year– Other awards from the current year– Retrospective awards– Genres or types
Newbery and Caldecott Mock Elections Tool Kit Genre Discussions Book List
Types of Mock Elections
– Today we focus on• Mostly live presentation, full day• Adult and Child audiences• Newbery and Caldecott, rather than other
approaches
Book Choices
• Use the work of others– Resources
• Other Mock Awards online, for example:– Allen County Public Library
Allen County Public Library Mock Caldecotthttp://www.acplmockcaldecott.blogspot.com/
Book Choices
• Use the work of others– Resources
• Other Mock Awards online, for example:– Allen County Public Library – Good Reads
Good Reads: Mock Newbery 2012http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/16663.Mock_Newbery_2012
Book Choices
• Best discussion books– Choose for your group– It’s not a prediction contest– Mix formats and genres– Let participants know your thinking
Awards Information
• Curiosity about the Committee experience– Ellen Fader: “If You Only Knew.” School
Library Journal (August 1999)– Nell Colburn: “Caldecott Confidential.” School
Library Journal (February 2010)– Heather McNeill: “Forty Hundred Books: A
Single Mother’s Year with the Newbery” Children & Libraries (Summer/Fall 2005)
Awards Criteria
• Key areas to share related to criteria– Information
• About the criteria• About the “elements” described in the criteria
– Examples• Concrete examples of how the criteria work• Modeling for the discussion that will follow
– Practice• Participants apply the information you’ve shared, following
the examples you’ve demonstrated, as they discuss the books on the Mock list.
Awards Criteria
• Criteria – techniques for sharing– Terms and Criteria are on ALSC’s website
Terms and Criteria: Randolph Caldecott Medalhttp://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/
caldecottmedal/caldecottterms/caldecottterms.cfm
Awards Criteria
• Criteria – techniques for sharing– Terms and Criteria are on ALSC’s website– Newbery criteria: Key Points to Consider
Newbery and Caldecott Mock Elections Tool Kit Newbery Criteria: Key Points to Consider
Awards Criteria
• Criteria – techniques for sharing– Terms and Criteria are on ALSC’s website– Newbery criteria: Key Points to Consider– Caldecott Criteria: Key Points to Consider
Newbery and Caldecott Mock Elections Tool Kit Caldecott Criteria: Key Points to Consider
© Chris Raschka
Yo! Yes? by Chris Raschka
From Mo Willems’ Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus © 2003 by Mo Willems. Reprinted by permission of Disney-Hyperion, an imprint of Disney Book Group LLC. All rights reserved.
Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus by Mo Willems
Newbery: Literary Qualities
• Literary Qualities – Interpretation of the theme or concept– Presentation of information including accuracy,
clarity, and organization– Development of a plot– Delineation of characters– Delineation of a setting– Appropriateness of style
• Handout – Exploring Literary Elements Through Newbery
Discussion
Newbery and Caldecott Mock Elections Tool Kit Exploring Literary Elements through Newbery Discussion
Newbery and Caldecott Mock Elections Tool Kit Exploring Literary Elements through Newbery Discussion
Newbery: Literary Qualities
• Literary Qualities: focus on the author – Interpretation of the theme or concept– Presentation of information including
accuracy, clarity, and organization– Development of a plot– Delineation of characters– Delineation of a setting– Appropriateness of style
Newbery: Literary Qualities
“But we girls would be proud as punch to have you join our Auxiliary if you’re a veteran’s wife. Did your late husband go to war?” “Only with me,” Grandma said, “and he lost every time.”
Copyright © 2000 by Richard Peck
Delineation of Character
Cover illustration copyright © 2000 by Steve Cieslawski
A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck
Newbery: Literary Qualities
The Lady waddled to her special place in the road, squatted then flapped hard, sending up silt and worn-out feathers. She paused and rested like a movie star in her bubble bath, then did it again. When she finished, she billed and preened her luxuriance. In the sunlight her black tail feathers glistened purple like oil on water.
Whittington by Alan Armstrong, published by Random House Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books
Whittington by Alan Armstrong
Delineation of Character
Newbery and Caldecott Mock Elections Tool Kit From Chapter 2: Exploring Text – The Newbery Medal
Newbery: Literary Qualities
Holes by Louis Sachar. Published by Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group
Holes by Louis Sachar
The reader is probably asking: Why would anyone go to Camp Green Lake? Most campers weren’t given a choice. Camp Green Lake is a camp for bad boys.If you take a bad boy and make him dig a hole every day in the hot sun, it will turn him into a good boy.That was what some people thought.Stanley Yelnats was given a choice. The judge said, “You may go to jail, or you may go to Camp Green Lake.”Stanley was from a poor family. He had never been to camp before.
Style + Setting + Character + Theme
Newbery: Literary Qualities
• Key areas to share– Information
• Criteria and Literary Elements
– Examples• Use real books
– Practice• Happens in the Newbery discussion that follows
Caldecott: Artistic Qualities
• Caldecott Considerations– Exploring Techniques in Picture Book Art
• Artistic Medium• Artistic Styles• Elements of Art
– Shape, Line, Color, Texture, Light and Dark, Line, Shape, Space, Perspective, and Collective Unity
Newbery and Caldecott Mock Elections Tool Kit Exploring Techniques in Picture Book Art
Caldecott: Artistic Qualities
• Caldecott Considerations– Exploring Techniques in Picture Book Art
• Artistic Medium• Artistic Styles• Elements of Art
– Shape, Line, Color, Texture, Light and Dark, Line, Shape, Space, Perspective, and Collective Unity
– Also look at how artistic choices impact narrative elements
• Plot, Information, Setting, Characterization, Theme
© Chris Raschka
Yo! Yes? by Chris Raschka
Newbery and Caldecott Mock Elections Tool Kit Exploring Techniques in Picture Book Art
Newbery and Caldecott Mock Elections Tool Kit From Chapter 3: Searching Pictures – The Caldecott Medal
From What Do You Do with a Tail Like This? by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page.
Copyright © 2003 by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page. Used by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
Newbery and Caldecott Mock Elections Tool Kit From Caldecott Images section
What Do You Do with a Tail Like This? Illustrated by Steve Jenkins
Artistic Element: Space
From What Do You Do with a Tail Like This? by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page. Copyright © 2003 by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page.
Used by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
Artistic Element: Space
My Friend Rabbitby Eric Rohmann
© 2002 Eric Rohmann
Artistic Element: Space
© 2002 Eric Rohmann
My Friend Rabbitby Eric Rohmann
Caldecott: Artistic Qualities
• Ways of Demonstrating Artistic Elements– Show specific elements, such as shape and
color, with examples from several different books
– Use two or three books to highlight elements, using several examples from each book
– Walk through a single book, covering multiple elements
Text copyright © 2001 Marc Simont.
Used by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
Stray Dog by Marc Simont Art: Shape, Color, Space, Line Narrative: Plot, Theme
Text copyright © 2001 Marc Simont. Used by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
Stray Dog by Marc SimontArt: Space, Color
Narrative: Plot, Theme, Character
Text copyright © 2001 Marc Simont. Used by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
Stray Dog by Marc SimontArt: Color, Space, Line
Narrative: Plot, Theme, Character
Text copyright © 2001 Marc Simont. Used by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
Caldecott: Artistic Qualities
• Three excellent demonstration books– Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice
Sendak– When Sophie Gets Angry--Really, Really
Angry by Molly Bang– Yo! Yes? by Chris Raschka
© Chris Raschka
Yo! Yes? by Chris Raschka
Caldecott: Artistic Qualities
• Two more resources for picture book demonstrations – Booklinks “Illustration as Art” series by Mary
M. Erbach (March – November, 2007)– Picturing Books website
Caldecott: Artistic Qualities
• Key areas to share– Information
• Criteria• Everything on the page is an artist’s choice
– Examples• Artistic elements and narrative elements
– Practice• Apply the techniques you talk about in the
discussion of Mock Caldecott books
Mock Awards Discussion
• Group Discussion Basics– Discussion guidelines
• CCBC Book Discussion Guidelines
CCBC Book Discussion Guidelineshttp://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/books/discguide.asp
Ginny Moore Kruse and Kathleen T. Horning
© 1989 Cooperative Children's Book Center
Mock Awards Discussion
• Group Discussion Basics– Discussion guidelines
• CCBC Book Discussion Guidelines
– Assign facilitators– Discussion Group Procedures handout in the
e-book
Newbery and Caldecott Mock Elections Tool Kit Discussion Group Procedures
Voting
• Use official ALSC ballot tabulating– Resources in the e-book
• Vote Tally Sheet
Newbery and Caldecott Mock Elections Tool Kit Vote Tally Sheet
Voting
• Use official ALSC ballot tabulating– Resources in the e-book
• Vote Tally Sheet• Sample Ballot Tabulator
Newbery and Caldecott Mock Elections Tool Kit Sample Ballot Tabulator
Newbery and Caldecott Mock Elections Tool Kit Sample Ballot Tabulator
Voting
• Use official ALSC ballot tabulating– Resources in the e-book
• Vote Tally Sheet• Sample Ballot Tabulator
– Share your results!• Nationally
– Heavy Medal– CCBC Net
• Locally– School Newsletters– Press Release to Newspapers
Newbery and Caldecott Mock Elections Tool Kit Sample Press Release
Wrap up
• A live look at the e-book
• Purchasing Newbery and Caldecott Mock Elections Toolkit, 2011 Edition
Digital Download Information available at the ALA Store
http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=3489
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Wrap up
• Q & A
• Can contact me with follow up questions– Steven Engelfried, Wilsonville Public Library
• 503-570-1592• engelfried@wilsonvillelibrary.org