The Science of Reading and the Art of Teaching
Creating Successful Lifelong Readers & Writers
Franklyn M. Branley is considered a pioneer of children’s science books. Before he started writing curriculum ...
Blood is fascinating! A comedic vampire guides students to learn the science behind blood and how it works within our ...
Spiders may be seen as a scary Halloween creature, but they have so much more to offer! People have been impressed with ...
WE ARE GRATEFUL by Traci Sorell Seasons of the year are highlighted through the lens of Cherokee culture. The book ...
The heart of STEM education and the Makerspace movement is to facilitate innovation, creativity, and solve complex ...
by Roxie Munro Rodents are remarkable, radical, rambunctious, and really cool! After reading Rodent Rascals, a new ...
Now that it’s officially Fall, crisp apples and other Autumn treats sound delicious right now. Apples is a ...
Author G. Brian Karas explains our time on earth as if we are on a giant merry-go-round, rotating and spinning around ...
Like the Grand Canyon itself, this book is a breathtaking work of art, one to pour over for hours. The vast amount of ...
If you work with kids, you know a great picture book has transformational powers. With everything wrong in the world at ...
Goggles!, written and illustrated by Ezra Jack Keats, follows a courageous trio of two young boys and their trusty ...
Too Many Tamales by Gary Soto, with illustrations from Ed Martinez, tells the heartwarming family tale of a humourous ...
Successful after school learning starts with the relationship between after school staff and the students they serve. ...
Written by Maribeth Boelts and illustrated by Noah Z. Jones, Those Shoes delivers a heartwarming lesson on the ...
Effective classroom management and promoting social emotional learning are two important goals for every after school ...
Wagon Wheels Based on the true story of black homesteaders in Kansas, Wagon Wheels reads like an adventure tale. A ...
Magic Trash This picture book biography of Tyree Guyton, an urban environmental artist, shows how he transformed his ...
February is Black History Month. Picture books are a great way to introduce students of all ages to the contributions ...
Peter explores the city after an overnight snowstorm. You know it's a classic when they create a Forever postage ...
The leader reads short phrases from the text. Leader pauses to allow students to echo back each short ...
The leader pauses before the last word of each line. The students fill in the missing word by predicting or reading the ...
The leader guides a performance of the story. Choose performers as you encounter characters, not before. Provide a ...
Create two lines of 5 students. Stand about 10 yards away. Invite the first student in each line to walk/run toward you ...
Give students 15 seconds to think of one true thing that happened in the story or chapter.Choose students to tell you ...
Marley Dias, an 11-year-old student in New Jersey, was tired of not being able to relate to the characters in the ...
Einstein said, everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. When applied to boosting ...
It seems obvious that online reading programs would help students become better readers. As it turns out, time spent ...
Douglas Florian's Mammalabilia offers readers another great collection of poems and artwork perfect for a read aloud. ...
I know what you must be thinking. Is there an old literacy? Yes, there is. The old literacy is the ability to ...
Anansi the Spider by Gerald McDermott is one my all time favorites to read aloud, to perform, and to use during teacher ...
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