Elementary Book Awards – Caldecott Newbery – Library Lesson – Updated for 2026

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**January 28, 2026 – Updated to include the 2026 Award Winners! Next update coming in late-January 2026. Once purchased, all updates for this resource are FREE.

FAST FACTS ABOUT THIS ELEMENTARY BOOK AWARDS LIBRARY LESSON

• Recommended for: Grades K-5
• Lesson Duration: 2-3 library lessons (about 75-90 minutes total)
• Formats: PPT, Google Slides, PDF (you need any two of these)
• Editable: YES, all text is editable

UPDATED ANNUALLY!

Yep, I update this Elementary Book Awards Library Lesson every year within a few days of the new awards being announced in January. Once you own it, you get all the updates FREE!

HERE’S WHAT YOU’LL GET:

• 80-slide PPT + Google™ Slides presentation
• Reading List of Award Winners mentioned in presentation (2 pages)
• 2 differentiated Scavenger Hunts
• 2 list of Recommended Reads (same titles, sorted 2 ways)
• Pre-filled, editable lesson plan template; includes AASL, CCSS, and TEKS standards
• 18 “I Can” Statements to complement the lesson

THIS ELEMENTARY BOOK AWARDS LIBRARY LESSON INCLUDES

• Description of the following book awards: Caldecott, Newbery, Coretta Scott King, Pura Belpre, and Sibert.
• Shorter mention of Odyssey Award, Stonewall Award, and Asian Pacific American Book Award (including winning titles).
• Original storytime song, sign language
• Introduction to each book award
• Winners vs. honors
• Gold and silver medal seals
• Brief information about who the elementary book awards are named for
• How winners and honors are selected, predicting winners, difficulty in choosing, and award criteria
• Examples of a few books that have won each award (includes winners and honors announced in January 2026)
• fun facts, did you knows, true/false
• trivia questions with answers
• fun facts to go with some of the award winners (for example, facts about John Henry go with Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky)
• vocabulary words: accolade and kudos
• this week’s birthdays
• All slides contain real photos or colorful artwork

EDITABLE LESSON PLAN

• 3 pages + prep checklist
• Pre-filled with what students will do, concepts they will learn, and library skills
• AASL, CCSS, and TEKS standards for this lesson
• 100% editable – You can even change the sizes and names of individual boxes.
• 18 “I Can” Statements to complement the lesson

SCAVENGER HUNT ACTIVITIES

• includes two differentiated scavenger hunt activities
• “Easier” scavenger hunt is for students who are not yet reading; students color the objects as they see them in Part II of the book awards presentation
• “Harder” scavenger hunt includes the same images as in the easier version, plus nine questions to answer based on the text in the Part II slides. Students are looking for the answers to the questions and the images in the presentation.
• Includes answer key for the “Harder” scavenger hunt. Easy version does not require an answer key since it has no questions.

RECOMMENDED READS

• Includes the elementary book award titles mentioned in the presentation, plus a few other award winners.
• Great to hand out to teachers and students! Or, print the list on the back of the scavenger hunts to send home to parents.
• 2 pages
• You can edit the titles to suit your library
• The titles on the two pages are the same, but they are sorted differently on each page. One page sorts by fiction, nonfiction, and picture book. The other sorts by book award name.

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