Encourage students to take their new ideas and organize them into a story. Learn about the creative approaches these authors and illustrators have to organizing details. Does a story always start at the beginning?
Spark imagination and find those ideas that are just waiting to be written. These authors share their own sources of inspiration. Learn what inspires them and go hunting for your own story beginnings.
In this second installment, we offer specific examples for applying the resources you can find on TeachingBooks into a Blended Learning, Technology-Rich Environment. Be sure to read Part 1!
Use the resources on TeachingBooks to increase opportunities for student choice, support teacher-led instruction, and facilitate the integration of each into a blended learning, technology-rich environment.
Consider these strategies to enhance engagement and comprehension of assigned texts using the resources on TeachingBooks. Design the literary experience before, during, and after reading a book.
Provide responsive literacy instruction that varies content, pacing, and outcomes to meet readers where they are.
Instruction that infuses nonfiction titles support the development of reading and research skills, comprehension, persuasive writing, and much, much more. TeachingBooks resources facilitate the seamless integration of this rich body of texts to bring a love of nonfiction to ALL readers!
Find and infuse inspiration directly from authors and illustrators into your makerspaces! Check out this month's blog to discover ideas on drawing literacy to makerspaces and back again with digital resources on TeachingBooks.
Creating Reading Magic has never been easier! Explore ideas for ways to bring books to life with Custom Reading Lists.
Here are a few ideas for tasks that volunteers can complete using TeachingBooks that will support your work with readers and books -- now easier than ever with our new scanning function!
