This timeless, remarkable book can be incorporated into your classroom activities in a number of ways. The links below are packed with cross-curricular lessons which not only enhance the teach-ability of LEAH’S PONY, but will help keep the life lessons learned a part of the child’s memory for a long, long time. To access a website created by… Read more »
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The Grand Plan to Fix Everything
Among many of the instructional and insightful activities such as writing fan letters, dancing Bollywood steps, and baking yummy curry puffs described in The Grand Plan to Fix Everything Activity Kit, young readers are asked to consider the statement “How I Want to Change the World.” Like Dini, readers are encouraged to think about the world as… Read more »
Suggested Reading for the Dog Days of Summer
K. A. Nuzum’s award-winning THE LEANIN’ DOG is the perfect selection to begin a summer of solicitous ReaderKidZ reading. This heartwarming novel features protagonist Dessa Dean, a broken, isolated, lonely girl, and the healing power of a stray chocolate lab. Dessa Dean has given up on living outside of the confines of her home. Her life is forever changed… Read more »
A Kick in the Head: An Everyday Guide to Poetic Forms
Does the thought of teaching poetry cause you to tremble? Does the iambic pentameter make you ill? And, yet you must gather up your gumption and teach it? Yikes! We at ReaderKidZ desire to remind you that kids are natural poets. They love writing and reading poems, especially if there are elements of childlike humor resonating… Read more »
NOODLE AND LOU, by Liz Garton Scanlon
Liz says that Noodle and Lou are really just worm-and-bird versions of herself and the many folks she’s lucky enough to call friends, folks who always seem to see the best in each other. Click HERE to access a Teacher’s Guide cleverly designed by Natalie Dias Lorenzi. In it, along with wonderful pre-reading, vocabulary exercises,… Read more »
Red Sings From the Treetops by Joyce Sidman
Prolific poet and teacher Joyce Sidman states, “Why read [children] poems about worms and beetles? Because the physical world–and the profound lessons that direct contact with that world offers–have, sadly, receded into the background of their lives… More often than not, the dominant images they view every day are created by other minds, other imaginations–with… Read more »
Kristine O’Connell George – The Educator’s Friend
Kristine’s website is packed with a plethora of activity guides, teacher’s guides, and coloring pages to serve as companions for her long list of wonderful books. She has even included a clever interactive mini-web activity in which Kristine demonstrates how writers work to capture writing ideas because, as she says, ideas can be sneaky. Play Kristine’s Tips for Young Poets by clicking HERE. If… Read more »
