Teach with picture books

I've just come across another really useful blog called Teach with Picture Books by Keith Schoch http://teachwithpicturebooks.blogspot.com/

"The main purpose of this site is to help teachers and homeschooling parents in grades 3-8 use picture books to enhance their instruction. If you'd like to know the reasons why you should be using picture books in your classroom, visit the sister site called Teaching with Picture Books Across the Middle Grades."

The Tuesday 2 March 2010 post describes Ten Not-to-Be-Missed Picture Book Reference Sites Check it out - it will lead you from one wonderful resource to another.

I also liked this post with suggestions for ways to share picture books (with upper primary / intermediate age students) http://teachwithpicturebooks.blogspot.com/2010/01/ways-to-share-picture-books.html

This is his related wiki which includes "focused reading skills" which is being developed collaboratively... http://atn-reading-lists.wikispaces.com/Focused+Reading+Skills