Using Children's Books to foster Numeracy: useful websites

Articles about Using Children's Literature to teach Mathematics

Promoting Emergent Literacy and Numeracy Through Children's Literature
http://www.cayc.ca/promolit.pdf

Curriculum: Math and Literature—A Match Made in the Classroom!
http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/curr249.shtml

Book Lists:

Marilyn Burns Classroom Library
http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/statehomepages/nm/pdfs/NM_BurnsGK.pdf

Books for Teaching Math Concepts
http://www.education.uiowa.edu/crl/bibliographies/documents/BooksforTeachingMathConceptsupdatedforweb2009.pdf

Lesson Plan Ideas:

Share 2 Learn: Literature ad Math
http://www.share2learn.com/mathliterature.html

Illuminations: Mathematics and Children's Literature
http://illuminations.nctm.org/LessonDetail.aspx?ID=U83

Utah Education Network: How Big is A Foot
http://www.uen.org/Lessonplan/preview.cgi?LPid=10729

Exemplars: How Big is a Foot
http://www.uen.org/Lessonplan/preview.cgi?LPid=10729

Find the story for the above 2 lessons at
http://www.vidyaonline.net/arvindgupta/kingsfoot.pdf

General Resources:

Home Page for New Math Teachers
http://terri.clarityconnect.com/terri.html