Uses of Author Interviews for Administrators

Have authors as resident experts in your schools–online, anytime,

for example …

• Discuss science, architecture, and biology with David Macaulay
• Consider nutrition with Fast Food Nation author Eric Schlosser
• Enhance Native American studies with Crow Indian Chief Joseph Medicine Crow

Offer professional development about literacy programs for all content areas,

for example …

• Reader's Theater taught by four award-winning authors (Avi, Sharon Creech, Walter Dean Myers, and Sarah Weeks)
• Journaling modeled by Jack Gantos
• Literature integrated with performing arts demonstrated by Julie Andrews

What is an Author Interview?

• Author Interviews are interviews with authors and illustrators in video, audio, and written formats.
• Meet-the-Author Programs are filmed by TeachingBooks.net in the homes and studios of award-winning authors and illustrators to enable readers to connect with the author the moment they are studying a book.

Share how you use Author Interviews as an administrator.*