Teaching+Books

*Patricia Polacco's favorite thing to write about is her family. = = Teaching Books is a great site to use to introduce an author study with your students. Students can watch interviews with many of their favorite authors and illustrators. 1. Go to **CES Destiny homepage**. Here's a quick way to get there: Type in gcisd destiny in Google. Click on the link that comes up in Google (it looks like this-[| https://destiny.gcisd.net/]).

2. Select **Colleyville Elementary School** from the list. You will then be directed to the homepage.

3. Under the heading Online Resources, select **Teaching Books**.

4. Click on the red **Sign In** button on the top right corner of the page.

5. Log in - See Librarian if you need the username and password.

6. Click on the **Author Programs** tab at the top of the page.

7. Select an author by clicking on their face.

8. When the author's video interview comes up, select the **PLAY** button and watch the video. The programs on Patricia Polacco, Kate Di Camillo and Kevin Henkes are particularly good.

9. Take a look at each of the other tabs briefly. They are: book guides (lesson ideas with books), book readings (audio clips), author websites (alphabetical listing of official author sites), and educator area (you can join this page if you are interested).