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__** Semester Project **__ Choice 4: Author Study Standards:


 * Students apply a wide range of strategies to comprehend, interpret, evaluate, and appreciate texts. They draw on their prior experience, their interactions with other readers and writers, their knowledge of word meaning and of other texts, their word identification strategies, and their understanding of textual features (e.g., sound-letter correspondence, sentence structure, context, graphics).


 * Students adjust their use of spoken, written, and visual language (e.g., conventions, style, vocabulary) to communicate effectively with a variety of audiences and for different purposes.


 * Students employ a wide range of strategies as they write and use different writing process elements appropriately to communicate with different audiences for a variety of purposes.


 * Students apply knowledge of language structure, language conventions (e.g., spelling and punctuation), media techniques, figurative language, and genre to create, critique, and discuss print and non-print texts.


 * Students use a variety of technological and information resources (e.g., libraries, databases, computer networks, video) to gather and synthesize information and to create and communicate knowledge.


 * Students participate as knowledgeable, reflective, creative, and critical members of a variety of literacy communities.


 * Students use spoken, written, and visual language to accomplish their own purposes (e.g., for learning, enjoyment, persuasion, and the exchange of information).

__**Book Award Part 1**__

 * 1. Newberry Award **

** Sponsoring Organization: ** American Library Association (ALA)
====** History: ** On June 22, 1921, Frederic G. Melcher proposed the award to the American Library Association meeting of the Children's Librarians' Section and suggested that it be named for the eighteenth-century English bookseller John Newbery. The idea was enthusiastically accepted by the children's librarians, and Melcher's official proposal was approved by the ALA Executive Board in 1922. In Melcher's formal agreement with the board, the purpose of the Newbery Medal was stated as follows: "To encourage original creative work in the field of books for children. To emphasize to the public that contributions to the literature for children deserve similar recognition to poetry, plays, or novels. To give those librarians, who make it their life work to serve children's reading interests, an opportunity to encourage good writing in this field." ====

** Selected By: ** Association for Library Service to Children, a division of ALA (Public and school librarians)
====**Type of Books: **The Newbery Medal is given to one distinguished book annually. The book can be fiction, non-fiction, or poetry, but it must be original. Each year ALA member librarians review all eligible books printed the previous year. ====

** Time of Year Awarded: ** Annually

 * 2. Caldecott Award **

** Sponsoring Organization: ** Association for Library Service to Children
====**History: **M any persons became concerned that the artists creating picture books for children were as deserving of honor and encouragement as were the authors of children's books, Frederic G. Melcher suggested in 1937 the establishment of a second annual medal. This medal is to be given to the artist who had created the most distinguished picture book of the year and named in honor of the nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph J. Caldecott. The idea for this medal was also accepted enthusiastically by the Section for Library Work with Children of ALA and was approved by the ALA Executive Board. The Caldecott Medal "shall be awarded to the artist of the most distinguished American Picture Book for Children published in the United States during the preceding year. ====

** Decision: ** Children's Services Division, now the Association for Library Service to Children, which now has sole responsibility for administering the award.
==== Type of Books: The Medal shall be awarded annually to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children published by an American publisher in the United States in English during the preceding year. There are no limitations as to the character of the picture book except that the illustrations be original work. ====

** Time of Year Awarded: ** Annually

 * 3. Geisel Award **

** Sponsoring Organization: ** American Library Association
====**History: **The award was established in 2004 and first presented in 2006. The award is named for the world-renowned children’s author, Theodor Geisel. ====

** Decision: ** The President of the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, will appoint the committee to administer the award
====** Type of Books: ** The Geisel Award is given annually to the author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished American book for beginning readers published in English in the United States during the preceding year. ====

** Time of Year Awarded: ** Annually in January

 * 4. Coretta Scott King Award **

** Sponsoring Organization: ** American Library Association
====**History: **The Coretta Scott King Award was the dream of Glyndon Greer. In 1969, while attending the annual conference of ALA in Atlantic City, NJ, Mrs. Greer, along with Mabel McKissack, both school librarians, and John Carroll, a book publisher, organized the Coretta Scott King Award. During the first year, four other librarians joined the founders: Harriet Brown of New York City; Beatrice James, President of the New Jersey Library Association; Roger McDonough, New Jersey State Librarian; and Ella Gaines Yates, Assistant Director, Montclair Public Library. The first award was presented in 1970 to Lillie Patterson for her book **//Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: Man of Peace//** at the New Jersey Library Association Annual Spring Conference in Atlantic City. ====

** Decision: ** Ethnic & Multicultural Information Exchange Round Table, part of the American Library Association
====** Type of Books: ** The award is g iven to African American authors and illustrators for outstanding inspirational and educational contributions, the Coretta Scott King Book Award titles promote understanding and appreciation of the culture of all peoples and their contribution to the realization of the American dream ====

====** Sponsoring Organization: ** It is co-sponsored by the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), and REFORMA, the National Association to Promote Library and Information Services to Latinos and the Spanish-Speaking, an ALA affiliate ====
 * 5. Pura Belpré Award **

** Decision: ** 7-person committee with representatives from ALA and REFORMA
====** Type of Books: ** The award is presented to a Latino/Latina writer and illustrator whose work best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth. ====

** Time of Year Awarded: ** Annually

 * 6. Laura Ingalls Wilder Award **

** Decision: ** 5-member ALCS award committee
====** Type of Books: ** The Wilder Award honors an author or illustrator whose books, published in the United States, have made, over a period of years, a substantial and lasting contribution to literature for children. ====

** Time of Year Awarded: ** Winners are announced at the ALA Midwinter Meeting and receive the medal at the Annual Conference in June.

 * 7. Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal **

** Sponsoring Organization: ** Association for Library Service to Children
====**History: It was **established by the Association for Library Service to Children in 2001 with support from Bound to Stay Bound Books, Inc. The award is named in honor of Robert F. Sibert, the long-time President of Bound to Stay Bound Books, Inc. of Jacksonville, Illinois. ALSC administers the award. ====

** Time of Year Awarded: ** Annually

 * 8. Odyssey Award **

** History: ** This award came about to honor the growing number of audiobooks. It was created to recognize the art of storytelling, while still keeping up with modern technology.
====** Decision: ** The Odyssey Award is jointly given and administered by the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) and the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), divisions of ALA ====

** Time of Year Awarded: ** Annually

 * 9. Mildred L. Batchelder Award **

** Sponsoring Organization: ** Association for Library Services to Children of the American Library Association
====** History: ** This award honors Mildred L. Batchelder, a former executive director of the Association for Library Service to Children, a believer in the importance of good books for children in translation from all parts of the world. The award was established in 1966 in her honor. ====

** Decision: ** The award is selected annually by a 5-member committee, unless the award committee is of the opinion no book of that particular year is worthy of the award
====** Type of Books: ** This award is given to the most outstanding children’s book originally published in a language other than English in a country other than the United States, and then translated into English for publication in the United States. ====

** Time of Year Awarded: ** The award is now given at the ALA Annual Conference held each summer.

 * 10. Orbis Pictus Award **

** Type of Books: ** This award is for **promoting and recognizing excellence in the writing of nonfiction for children ****.**
====** Time of Year Awarded: ** The award is presented by the Orbis Pictus [|__Committee__] Chair during the Books for Children Luncheon at the [|__NCTE Annual Convention__] each year. ====

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