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Teaching Guide with Activities and Discussion Questions for Polly Diamond and the Magic Book by Alice Kuipers

By On April 27, 2018 · 2 Comments · In Alliteration, Asking Questions, Characterization, Classroom Library Buy, Close Reading/Analysis, Figurative Language, Illustrated Novel, Plot Development, Prediction, Read Aloud, Setting, Simile/Metaphor, Teaching, Vocabulary/Vocabulary Development, Writing
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Polly Diamond and the Magic Book
Author: Alice Kuipers
Illustrator: Diana Toledano
Expected Publication May 1st, 2018 by Chronicle

Summary: Polly loves words. And she loves writing stories. So when a magic book appears on her doorstep that can make everything she writes happen in real life, […]

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I Love You, Michael Collins by Lauren Baratz-Logsted

By On April 20, 2018 · 2 Comments · In Characterization, Classroom Library Buy, Close Reading/Analysis, Historical Fiction, Literature Circle/Book Clubs, Making Connections, Novel, Setting, Text Structure, Voice, Writing
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I Love You, Michael Collins
Author: Lauren Baratz-Logsted
Published June 20th, 2017 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

Summary: It’s 1969 and the country is gearing up for what looks to be the most exciting moment in U.S. history: men landing on the moon. Ten-year-old […]

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On Gull Beach by Jane Yolen

By On April 18, 2018 · Leave a Comment · In Classroom Library Buy, Close Reading/Analysis, Literature Circle/Book Clubs, Picture Book, Read Aloud, Rhyme/Rhythm, Setting, Text Structure, Writing
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On Gull Beach
Author: Jane Yolen
Illustrator: Bob Marstall
Published March 27th, 2018 by Cornell Lab Publishing Group

Summary: Together again! On Gull Beach reunites bestselling children’s author Jane Yolen and award-winning illustrator Bob Marstall for the third installment of the acclaimed On Bird Hill and […]

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Super Powers!: A Great Big Collection of Awesome Activities, Quirky Questions, and Wonderful Ways to See Just How Super You Already Are by M.H. Clark

By On February 9, 2018 · Leave a Comment · In Asking Questions, Characterization, Close Reading/Analysis, Picture Book, Setting, Text Structure, Writing
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Super Powers!: A Great Big Collection of Awesome Activities, Quirky Questions, and Wonderful Ways to See Just How Super You Already Are
Author: M.H. Clark
Illustrator: Michael Byers
Published 2017 by Compendium, Inc.

Summary: Calling on all kids to turn on their superpowers! […]

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National Geographic Kids: What Would Happen? by Crispin Boyer

By On October 18, 2017 · 2 Comments · In Asking Questions, Background Knowledge, Classroom Library Buy, Close Reading/Analysis, Informational Nonfiction, Inquiry, Making Connections, Nonfiction Picture Book Wednesday, Text Features, Vocabulary/Vocabulary Development, Writing
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Nonfiction Wednesday

Nonfiction Picture Book Wednesday is hosted by Kid Lit Frenzy and was started to help promote the reading of nonfiction texts. Most Wednesdays, we will be participating and will review a nonfiction text (though it may not always be a picture book).
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Teaching Guide for Hazardous Tales: Alamo All-Stars by Nathan Hale

By On May 10, 2017 · 6 Comments · In Asking Questions, Cause/Effect, Classroom Library Buy, Close Reading/Analysis, Compare/Contrast, Conflict, Graphic Novels/Comics, Inferring, Inquiry, Literature Circle/Book Clubs, Making Connections, Narrative Nonfiction, Nonfiction Picture Book Wednesday, Point of View, Prediction, Setting, Text Structure, Vocabulary/Vocabulary Development
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Nonfiction Wednesday

Nonfiction Picture Book Wednesday is hosted by Kid Lit Frenzy and was started to help promote the reading of nonfiction texts. Most Wednesdays, we will be participating and will review a nonfiction text (though it may not always be a picture book).
[…]

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In the Middle School Classroom: Creative and Argumentative Writing with Papertoy Glowbots by Brian Castleforte

By On April 28, 2017 · 1 Comment · In Teaching, Writing
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Papertoy Glowbots: 46 Glowing Robots You Can Make Yourself!
Author: Brian Castleforte
Published August 23rd, 2016 by Workman Publishing Company

When I first looked through the book Papertoy Glowbots, after Brian Castleforte wrote an author guest post for Unleashing Readers, I knew that […]

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