The Monarch Award:
Illinois’ K-3 Children’s Choice Award
2006 Master List
Sponsored by the
Illinois School Library Media Association
2006 Nominee: Diary of a Worm
A young worm discovers, day by day, that there are some very good and some not so good things about being a worm in this great big world.
Author: Doreen Cronin
- Research: Worms
- Language: Interview with a worm
- Writing: Add more diary pages, make a new diary of another
animal
- Hands on: Make bookworms, make PlayDoh worms
- Art: Draw a worm house underground
- Diary of a Spider
by Doreen Cronin
- Toil in the Soil
by Michelle Myers Lackner
- Deep Down Underground
by Oliver Dunrea
- Wiggling Worms at Work by Wendy Pfeffer
- Tunneling Earthworms by Suzanne Paul Dell'Oro
- Lesson plan
- Fact or fiction lesson plan
- Worm World
- Worm facts
- More worm facts
- Annette Lamb's 42explore Worms