Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Teacher Resources

The Day the Crayons Quit: A Guide for the Book - Drew Daywalt
Explore the fun and quirky ways in which the crayons quit with this instructional guide for literature. Students will love analyzing the crayons' struggles and complaints by completing age-appropriate, rigorous yet fun activities and lessons provided in this guide. Readers will enjoy figuring out how Duncan convinces his crayons to come back to work. Analyzing story elements in multiple ways, close reading and text-based vocabulary practice, and determining meaning through text-dependent questions are just a few of the many skills students will walk away with after interacting with the rigorous and appealing cross-curricular lessons and activities in this resource. Written to support this playful, well-known book, each activity and lesson work in conjunction with the text to teach students how to analyze and comprehend literature while using their imagination.

Books in Bloom: Discovering the Plant Biology in Great Children's Literature
- Valerie Bang-Jensen and Mark Lubkowitz
Books in Bloom invites children to learn about science while experiencing a great story. Each chapter features an outstanding children's book that is grounded in plant biology and provides engaging activities and lesson plans related to curricular standards. Books in Bloom provides an opportunity for everyone who reads and gardens with children to teach science through literature.

The Graphic Canon of Children's Literature: The World's Greatest Kids' Lit as Comics and Visuals
Young people's literature through the ages is given new life by the best comics artists and illustrators. Fairy tales, fables, fantastical adventures, young adult novels, swashbuckling yarns, your favorite stories from childhood and your teenage years are adapted as short graphic stories. They're all here, in all their original complexity and strangeness, before they were censored or sanitized (including Red Riding Hood drinking her grandmother's blood).

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