Literature Links: Book Backdrops
Book Backdrops are teacher-curated primary source sets linked to books and accompanied by teaching ideas and/or teaching notes. They are continually added to the TPS Teachers Network using the album tool. A sampling of some great ones are listed below. All of the ones included here are accessible by anyone. But if you want to search for others and access comments on the sets from Network members, you’ll need to login or join this free educational online community.
TPS Teachers Network Book Backdrops
- Bud Not Buddy book by by Christopher Paul Curtis
- Here Come the Girl Scouts! book by Shana Corey
- Hiroshima book by John Hersey
- Pink and Say book by Patricia Polacco
- Preaching to the Chickens book by Jabari Asim
- Shadows at Jamestown book by by Steven K. Smith
- Snowflake Bentley book by Jacqueline Briggs Martin
- There There book by Tommy Orange
Access many more Book Backdrops from the TPS Eastern Region.
Don’t miss these lessons pairing picture books and primary sources by Tom Bober, elementary teacher librarian and former teacher in residence at the Library of Congress, found in the Citizen U Multidisciplinary Civics Lesson Library.
And be sure to check out our other Literature Links!