Teaching Ideas
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Learn from Authors
- Listen and reflect with these poetry one-a-day activities...
- View these book trailers and predict what will happen in the story...
- Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Peña
- Rescue & Jessica: A Life-Changing Friendship by Jessica Kensky and Patrick Downes
- Each Kindness by Jacqueline Woodson
- Learn from authors and write a story...
- Watch this Meet-the-Author Movie by David Wiesner on picture book-making.
- Create your own picture book using this Dreamers activity kit.
- Watch this Meet-the-Author Movie by Kevin Henkes on writing and illustrating.
- Be a scientist...
- Shark Lady: The True Story of How Eugenie Clark Became the Ocean’s Most Fearless Scientist by Jess Keating activity kit
- Ada Twist, Scientist by Andrea Beaty activity ideas
- Nic Bishop Frogs Meet-the-Author Recording