Connecting Content to Standards

Book Links Sept. 2008 (vol. 18, no. 1)

In an effort to help Book Links readers integrate the magazine’s content into the curriculum, below is a list of standards related to selected articles in this issue. This list is intended to serve as a general guideline for relating article features to standards; other standards may also apply to a particular article’s content. The standards below are taken from the Web site of
Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning—
Ed.

Seizing the Moment with Illustrator Mini-Studies (p.21)

Arts: Visual Arts: (K–Gr. 4) Understands and applies media, techniques, and processes related to the visual arts

Arts: Visual Arts: (K–Gr. 4) Knows how to use structures (e.g., sensory qualities, organizational principles, expressive features) and functions of art

Arts: Visual Arts: (K–Gr. 4) Understands the characteristics and merits of one's own artwork and the artwork of others

Mining Books for Writing Ideas (p.50)

Language Arts: Reading: (Gr. 6–8) Uses the general skills and strategies of the reading process

Language Arts: Reading: (Gr. 6–8) Uses reading skills and strategies to understand and interpret a variety of literary texts

Language Arts: Writing: (Gr. 6–8) Uses the general skills and strategies of the writing process

Language Arts: Writing: (Gr. 6–8) Uses the stylistic and rhetorical aspects of writing

Leave the Light On! Ghost Stories to Thrill and Chill (p.40)

Language Arts: Reading: (Gr. 6–12) Uses the general skills and strategies of the reading process

Language Arts: Reading: (Gr. 6–12) Uses reading skills and strategies to understand and interpret a variety of literary texts

The Text Generation: Fiction That Incorporates Digital Communication

Language Arts: Reading: (Gr. 6–12) Uses the general skills and strategies of the reading process

Language Arts: Reading: (Gr. 6–12) Uses reading skills and strategies to understand and interpret a variety of literary texts