The Coretta Scott King Book Award Online Curriculum Resource Center (http://TeachingBooks.net/csk) is a free, multimedia, online database for educators and families featuring more than 250 original recordings with award-winning authors and illustrators and hundreds of lesson plans.
The resource center includes more than nine hours of originally produced audio with Coretta Scott King Book Award (CSK) authors and illustrators talking about their books in two- to three-minute clips. Searches can be executed by author, illustrator, title, grade level, and curriculum area, as well as by the year or specific Coretta Scott King Book Award citation. Select “All” to scroll through the cover images of all 231 different books that have received this great honor.
In addition to free, online primary source materials (audio recordings and book readings), the collection features hundreds of lesson plans and original movies filmed in the studios of some of the award-winning authors and illustrators.
This project began in celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Coretta Scott King Book Awards. The resource center was recently selected for inclusion in the American Library Association’s Great Web Sites for Kids. If you would like more context about the creation of this resource center, please visit Nick Glass’s blog post about it at: http://forum.teachingbooks.net/?p=2476
For more information about the Coretta Scott King Book Award, visit the Coretta Scott King Book Award pages on the ALA web site.