Thematic Educator Guide: Teaching Civic Engagement

Dear Teacher, The informational text genre feeds students’ interests and curiosity while informing them about the natural world and specific topics. Students enjoy poring over and learning from these informational text features: photographs and captions, sidebars chock-full of intriguing details, diagrams, charts, excerpts from journals and interviews, and firsthand accounts by eyewitnesses. Authors of informational books breathe

Last week, the American Library Association (ALA) Midwinter announced their 2020 literary award winners and honorees at its annual meeting. Below you can find which Penguin Random House titles appropriate for Elementary School students were among the winners. To see which Middle School and High School titles were honored, click here. Giesel Award Stop! Bot!

“Nothing can replace you, the teacher, in the classroom. Unlike computers and robots, when you possess deep knowledge about how children learn, you can process students’ actions, words, and written work and provide feedback that moves each child forward. Moreover, you have a heart and emotional center that enables you to build students’ self-efficacy, self-confidence, motivation, and engagement in learning because students feel your respect and trust, your hopes and goals, as they experience your investment in their progress”. – Laura Robb

Penguin Random House joins with Former President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama to announce that the company will donate an additional 300,000 children’s books to First Book as part of the Hope Love Give campaign, building upon its previously announced donation of one million of its children’s books in the Obama family’s name. Plans for the

Twenty titles have been selected for the 2020-2021 Texas Bluebonnet Award Master List during the Texas Book Festival recently. The nominees, 4 of which are published or distributed by PRH, were unveiled by 19 students from the Central Texas Area. Each year, 20 books are chosen for the Texas Bluebonnet Award Master List. Schools and

Penguin Random House Education is pleased to announce the publication of our Elementary Education Catalog       The PRH Elementary Education Catalog features outstanding fiction, non-fiction, and picture books from the Penguin Young Reader’s and Random House Children’s publishing divisions, as well as children’s publishers distributed by Penguin Random House. Peruse online or download

Looking to place an order for your classroom? We’re here to help! In addition to working with your local bookseller, below you will find a list of preferred educational distributors as well as instructions on how to easily create a cost proposal request.   How do I order books for my classroom?   Step 1:

Penguin Random House (PRH) is the international home to nearly 250 editorially and creatively independent publishing imprints. Together, our mission is to foster a universal passion for reading by partnering with authors to help create stories and communicate ideas that inform, entertain, and inspire, and to connect them with readers everywhere. To read more about

This site was created for you, the educator. Its many useful features are designed to improve your ability to discover the right books for inspiring learning in your classroom.  We have taken a moment here to identify the Top Ten site functions, but do feel free to let us know if we missed any of your favorite

Dear Teacher, A favorite genre of students, realistic fiction opens a window into their world and their hopes and dreams, and often validates their life experiences. Bonding to realistic stories can happen quickly as students connect with characters that experience a similar range of emotions, relationships, problems, and wonderings. When students relate to realistic plots,

On Monday, August 19th, 2019, the inaugural Penguin Random House Elementary Education Teacher Advisory Board was convened in our NYC headquarters. The educators, representing a wide diversity of schools, experiences and perspectives, exchanged with PRH education colleagues, discussing ideas and providing feedback on new and developing PRH initiatives in the elementary education space, including this new website.