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Christmas Day Is Just a Month Away!
Your preschool class will love making handprint nativity animals as you all prepare for Christmas.
Cultivating Gratitude
Discover a wide variety of options for cultivating gratitude in your preschooler:
Classroom Resources for Middle Grade Novels
There are several helpful discussion guides and other classroom resources available on my website:
Are Your Students Weather Ready for a New Season?
Make sure your beginning readers are ready for whatever the oncoming winter weather brings:
Stories Full of Thrills and Chills
Tempt your chapter book readers with some ghostly good reads:
A Boon for Book Groups
If you work with middle grade readers, make sure to check out the discussion guide for my novel Sunshine:
Earth Science Easy Readers
Earth science information packaged for the easy reader classroom:
Turn Your Students into Synonym Sleuths
Dig deeper into my novel Runt with this synonym extension activity:
It’s a Book Birthday Week!
My newest STEM title for beginning readers publishes August 31st.
A Late Night Learning Opportunity
Make a perfect bedtime pairing with the Perseid meteor shower and The Stuff of Stars:
Exploring Strong Emotions in the Safety of a Story
Some of my thoughts about the important role played by novels that grapple with tough emotions
Take Some Time to Turn Kids on to Reading!
Time-tested ways to develop young people’s passion for reading