Clean Classroom ✓ New Supplies ✓ The start of a new school year is bright with possibilities. Teachingbooks can help keep instruction exciting for you and your readers. Take advantage of this time to fine tune and bring “newness” to your instruction. Keep what is already working and call on us for resources that can […]
Guest Blogger: Alan Gratz
If I could have nameless, faceless avatars running around making my plots function, my work would be a lot easier. But no one wants to read that story—including me. Readers want characters that have lives off the page. Characters that feel like friends, or enemies. Characters to root for, and root against. Characters that are […]
Contests and Giveaways | August
Each month we feature free and fun book contests and giveaways. We hope you will enjoy the following opportunities as well as the author and book resources available via TeachingBooks.net.
Getting to Know the TeachingBooks Staff – Summer 2017
Get to know a little bit more about us, the team behind TeachingBooks.net. This time we answer the question, “What is something interesting or odd that has happened to you lately?”
Contests and Giveaways | July 2017
Each month we feature free and fun book contests and giveaways. We hope you will enjoy the following opportunities as well as the author and book resources available via TeachingBooks.net.
Guest Blogger: Ruth Behar
As I listened to Ruthie, I discovered the magic of yielding to a story. Memory and fiction became my wings. At times I wrote about things that I thought I’d made up and was surprised when I learned that they were actually true.
Summertime uses of TeachingBooks.net
Here are a few fun ways to use TeachingBooks.net this summer!
Contests and Giveaways | June 2017
Each month we feature free and fun book contests and giveaways. We hope you will enjoy the following opportunities as well as the author and book resources available via TeachingBooks.net.
Prepare for Theater Performance using TeachingBooks.net
Making the words on the page spring to life through drama and theater is one way to connect students to literature outside of the classroom.
Guest Blogger: Rita Williams-Garcia
Like my mother, I’ve become a collector of objects, especially while I’m writing. As I begin a new project, I gather items that tell me about the subjects or reveal setting, plot, or most importantly, the characters.