Books
Books and movies are a powerful way to explore the Habits of Mind, and the Habits of Mind are a powerful way to explore movies!
Many schools are using books or movies as means to explore and give examples of the Habits of Mind. As students become more familiar with the Habits of Mind they become a powerful analysis tool to investigate the behaviors and choices of characters from the simplest to most complex stories
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| 101 Questions and Answers About the Universe (Roy Gallant) | view |
| A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes (Stephen Hawking) | view |
| A Death in the Family (James Agee) | view |
| A Light in the Attic (Shel Silverstein) | view |
| A Perfectly Orderly House (Ellen Kindt McKenzie) | view |
| A Separate Peace (John Knowles) | view |
| A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens) | view |
| A Taste of Blackberries (Doris Smith Buchanan) | view |
| A Tournament of Knights (Joe Lasker) | view |
| A Visit to William Blake's Inn (Nancy Willard) | view |
| A Wrinkle in Time (Madeline L'Engle) | view |
| Abel's Island (William Steig) | view |
| Abiyoyo (Pete Seeger) | view |
| Advice For a Frog (Alice Schertle) | view |
| After the War (Carol Matas) | view |
| Airmail To the Moon (Tom Birdseye) | view |
| Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (Judith Viorst) | view |
| All I Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (Robert Fulghum) | view |
| All the Places to Love (Patricia MacLachlin) | view |
| Alvin Webster's Surefire Plan for Success (And How It Failed) (Sheila Greenwald) | view |
| Amahl and the Night Visitors (Gian Carlo Menotti) | view |
| Amelia Bedelia (Peggy Parrish) | view |
| An Autumn Tale (David Updike) | view |
| Androcles and the Lion (Aesop fable) | view |
| Angela's Ashes ( Frank McCourt) | view |
| Animal Farm (George Orwell) | view |
| Animals Should Definitely Not Wear Clothing (Judy Barrett) | view |
| Anna Banana and Me (Lenore Blegvad) | view |
| Annabelle Swift, Kindergartner (Amy Schwartz) | view |
| Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank) | view |
| Anne of Green Gables (Lucy Montgomery) | view |
| Anno's Alphabet (Mitsumasa Anno) | view |
| Anno's Counting House (Mitsumasa Anno) | view |
| Araboolies of Liberty Street (Sam Swope) | view |
| Are You My Mother? (P. D. Eastman) | view |
| Armadillo Rodeo (Jan Brett) | view |
| Arrow to the Sun (Gerald McDermott) | view |
| Arrow To the Sun: A Pueblo Indian Tale (Gerald McDermott) | view |
| Arthur Meets the President (Marc Brown) | view |
| At Risk (Alice Hoffman) | view |
| Athletic Shorts (Chris Crutcher) | view |
| Auks, Rocks and the Odd Dinosaur: Inside Stories From the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History (Peggy Thompson) | view |
| Autumn Harvest (Alvin Tresselt) | view |
| Away From Home (Anita Lobel) | view |
| B' Is for Betsy (Carolyn Haywood) | view |
| Baby Be-Bop (Francesca Lia Block) | view |
| Bambi (Felix Salten) | view |
| Bamboozled (David Legge) | view |
| Bayou Lullaby (Kathi Appelt) | view |
| Be a Perfect Person (Stephen Manes) | view |
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