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The following guide created by Chronicle Books combines activities created for Dianna Hutts Aston’s charming AN EGG IS QUIET and A SEED IS SLEEPY. You may access the innovative activity guide created for children ages K – 5 by clicking HERE. This guide presents multi-level, age appropriate science, language arts, creative writing, reading, and art activities complete with… Read more »

Click HERE to download a rich, multi-sensory Teacher Guide to compliment Nancy Bo Flood’s dramatic Sand to Stone and Back Again. Desert landforms such as hoodoos and slot canyons, buttes, and mineral jackets are artistically replicated as the child creates sand paintings, sculptures, and plaster-crafted sedimentary rock casts. Vocabulary skills are enhanced as the child engages in a… Read more »

Young readers will further enjoy Phyllis Root’s marvelous Big Belching Bog by participating in some of the subject and resource modules offered in the following link created by the Irish Peatland Conservation Council. Click HERE and enjoy the following suggested subject modules – The Art Module in which bog art field studies and multisensory field investigations are described, the… Read more »

Grab a few pots of daylight fluorescent paints, a handful of day-glo markers, and have a ball working through the activities presented on the following activity guide created to compliment Chris Barton’s sensational THE DAY-GLO BROTHERS: The True Story of Bob and Joe Switzer’s Bright Ideas and Brand-New Colors. Click HERE to be led through insightful pre-reading… Read more »

The Teacher Guide created for Lola’s delightful Just One Bite can be accessed by clicking HERE. In it –  along with engaging mathematics, science, language arts activities, a study of various animal habitats and herbivore, omnivore, and carnivore eating habits – is a darling Reader’s Theater activity suitable for any Kindergarten to 2nd grade student. The Reader’s… Read more »

Have you ever wondered what a beastologist does? This and other provocative points are pondered in a down-loadable Nathaniel Fludd: Beastologist Teacher Activity guide accessible by clicking HERE. Along with insightful discussion questions, this guide is filled with social studies, science, and reading comprehension activities. Best of all, it includes  instructions for making your very own compass – a… Read more »

Kids from age 6 to 8 will enjoy activities such as resumé writing, letter writing, and a Bingo game  in down-loadable Teacher Activity Guide accessible by clicking HERE. It is filled with insightful questions for discussion suitable for 1st through 3rd graders and the grown up in-between. Mirroring Frannie’s preciously precocious voice the guide states that “…scientific fact that Frankly… Read more »