Brimner L. 2003.
Trash trouble: the corner kids
. Scholastic, New York.
A great, environmentally sound small book that would be appropriate for lower level guided reading groups.
Butler A. 1994.
Recycling dump
. Goodyear Books, Glenview, Illinois.
This is a great text for struggling readers to be used in a guided reading group.
Chandler G. & Graham K. 1996.
Recycling
. Twenty-First Century Books, New York.
This book can be used for higher level guided reading groups. It provides many specific examples of how waste can be recycled creatively.
Gutnik M. 1992.
Experiments that explore recycling
. Millbrook Press, Brookfield, Connecticut.
As the title states, this is a helpful book that can give kids a hand-on approach to recycling though the experiments.
Gutnik M. 1993.
Recycling: learning the four R's.
Enslow, Hillside, NJ.
This text is appropriate for middle schoolers (high-level text, some photos), or it can be used as a reference for teachers. It spells out the four r's and provides practical ways that kids can practice them.
Hare T. 1992.
Los residuos domésticos
. Ediciones SM, Madrid, Spain.
This is a quality expository text in Spanish with great photos, diagrams, and layout for text instruction.
Knapp B. 1991.
Don't throw it away!
Grolier, Toronto.
This is a neat book with ideas for how to creatively recycle trash.
Leedy L. 1991.
The great trash bash
. Holiday House, New York, New York.
This can be another good resource for lower level guided reading groups.
Lowery L. & Lorbeicki M. 1993.
Earthwise at home
. Carolrhoda Books, Inc., Minneapolis.
(see below)
Lowery L. & Lorbeicki M. 1993.
Earthwise at school
. Carolrhoda Books, Inc., Minneapolis.
(see below)
These two books provide an overview of environmental issues such as waste, deforestation, and global warming in a kid-friendly style. They discuss ways kids can make responsible choices at home with their families or at school. They encourage action through letter writing and provide excellent resources. Each page has a variety of graphics and different expository text structures, making it a great resource for teachers to use for short text examples to teach expository text structures.
Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Medio Ambiente & Peace Child International. 1999.
Pachamama
:
nuestra tierra, nuestro futuro
. Editorial Sudamericana, Buenos Aires.
This is an incredible book (written in Spanish) that covers the range of environmental issues in kid-friendly language. It has great illustrations, poems, quotes, statistics, and it includes responses from kids around the world. This is a precious resource that should be in every bilingual teacher's library!
Stwertka E. & A. 1993.
Cleaning up: how trash becomes treasure
. Julian Messner, New York, NY.
This is a great book for upper elementary aged kids, as well as for struggling readers. It has a fun comic-book style narrative that goes along with the higher-level text on each page, so both struggling and advanced readers can enjoy it.
Tesar J. 1991.
The waste crisis
. Facts on File, New York, New York.
This book is appropriate for much more advanced readers. It explores the issues in depth. The text is in longer chapters, but is still broken up by subsections. It has a great section of color photographs that can be used for discussion (they would make great pictures to put up around the room for the gallery walk).