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- Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades 6 – 12 | Podcast Episode
A Conversation with Laurie Halse Anderson
In this episode, Laurie Halse Anderson talks about her newest book, Wintergirls. - Classroom Resources | Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Authentic Persuasive Writing to Promote Summer Reading
Turn summer reading lists from a teacher-centered requirement to a student-driven exploration by asking students to create brochures and flyers that suggest books to explore during the summer months. - Classroom Resources | Grades 4 – 7 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Boars and Baseball: Making Connections
In this lesson, students will make text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections after reading In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson. After sharing and discussing connections, students choose and plan a project that makes a personal connection to the text. - Classroom Resources | Grades 6 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Book Report Alternative: Getting Acquainted with Farcebook
In this alternative to the traditional book report, students report on their novel choices using Facebook-like pages. - Professional Development | Grades 3 – 5 | Professional Library | Journal
Building Arab Americans' Cultural Identity and Acceptance With Children's Literature
Introducing multicultural children's literature into the elementary classroom is a first step toward eliminating stereotyping and prejudice and helping students develop cultural identity. - Classroom Resources | Grades K – 12 | Calendar Activity |  April 8
Celebrate National Library Week!
Students learn more about libraries as part of National Library Week. - Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades K – 5 | Podcast Episode
Celebrating the Earth
Every day is Earth Day! Emily shares her story of children inspired by The Lorax and how they might take action with 50 Simple Things Kids Can Do To Save the Earth. Emily also explores science and nature activities with guest Sharon Betty and The Down-to-Earth Guide to Global Warming. - Classroom Resources | Grades 3 – 8 | Printout | Graphic Organizer
Connection Web
Students use this printout to expand on connections they have made to a text and use those details to write essays or create projects about the text. - Professional Development | Grades 6 – 8 | Professional Library | Book
Developing Critical Awareness at the Middle Level: Using Texts as Tools for Critique and Pleasure
This unique instructional approach enables students to read literature they enjoy while developing critical consciousness and addressing issues of social justice. - Classroom Resources | Grades 3 – 8 | Printout | Graphic Organizer
Double-Entry Journal
This printout helps students record ideas and situations from texts in one column, and their reactions in the second, thus making a connection between the text and themselves, another text, or the world.