Step Right Up: How Doc and Jim Key Taught the World about Kindness
by Donna Janell Bowman and Daniel Minter
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- Grade
- 1-8
- Genre
- Biography
- Nonfiction
- Picture Book
- Cultural Experience
- African American
Year Published 2016
Word Count 2,673
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 910L
- ATOS Reading Level: 5.3
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 185164, 0.5 AR Points
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- History
- Social Studies
- Subject Headings
- Training
- Horse trainers--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature
- Human-animal communication
- Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction
- Horses
- Humane education
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional
- Horse trainers
- Human-animal communication--United States--Juvenile literature
- Human-animal relationships
- Key, Bill, 1833-1909--Juvenile literature
- Horses--Training--United States--History--Juvenile literature
- Key, Bill
- Human-animal relationships--United States--Juvenile literature
- History
- Humane education--United States--History--Juvenile literature
- Biography
- United States
- Beautiful Jim Key (Horse)--Juvenile literature
- Beautiful Jim Key (Horse)
Our Original Resources 4
Audio Name Pronunciation with Daniel Minter
Created by TeachingBooks
Nonfiction Read and Respond Multi-Leveled Lesson
Created by TeachingBooks
Cultural Representation Reflection
Created by TeachingBooks
Submit Qualitative Text Complexity Rubric
Created by TeachingBooks
About the Authors 5
Audio Name Pronunciation with Daniel Minter
Created by TeachingBooks
Author Interviews 8
Interview with Daniel Minter
Created by Texas Bluebonnet Award
Interview with Daniel Minter
Created by Lee & Low
Interview with Donna Janell Bowman
Created by Texas Bluebonnet Award 2019
Interview with Donna Janell Bowman
Created by Lee & Low
Interview with Donna Janell Bowman
Created by EMUS Debuts
Interview with Donna Janell Bowman
Created by Cynsations
Interview with Donna Janell Bowman
Created by Lee & Low
Interview with Donna Janell Bowman
Created by SCBWI
Book Guides, Activities & Lessons 5
Nonfiction Read and Respond Multi-Leveled Lesson
Created by TeachingBooks
Cultural Representation Reflection
Created by TeachingBooks
Activity Guide from Texas Bluebonnet Award 2019
Created by Texas Bluebonnet Award 2019
Reader's Theater Script from Texas Bluebonnet Award 2019
Created by Texas Bluebonnet Award 2019
Teacher's Guide from Lee & Low
Created by Lee & Low
Book Trailers 1
Video Book Trailer from Texas Bluebonnet Award
Created by Texas Bluebonnet Award
Awards & Distinctions 4
Orbis Pictus Award, 2000-2022
Commended, 2017
Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2021
Biography Selection, 2017
ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2022
Commended, 2017
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