It was a challenge coming up with a title and a cover image for the fifth and final book in the “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” (Abrams) series. I always planned to call this book Rowley’s Revenge, so I sketched what I thought might make a good cover.
This Friday, explore a classic in a new way …
Add multimedia resources, like this audio Book Reading of Homer’s The Odyssey, when you are exploring this classic with students.
Listen now with students to this dramatic excerpt to…
Audio performances of books, like this dramatic Book Reading of Bear Feels Scared (S&S, 2008), are a fun way to explore rhythm and rhyme with younger students.
Listen now with students and ask them to notice the rhyming words in…
While browsing TeachingBooks.net for audio Book Readings featuring poetry, I came across this dramatic audio performance of two poems from Curtis Crisler’s Tough Boy Sonatas (Front Street, 2007), a collection of 38 poems reflecting the experiences of boys growing up…
In this audio clip you’ll hear Kathy Engel, friend of poet June Jordan, introduce and read from a collection of poems written by teens in Harlem, NYC in the 1960’s, entitled The Voice of the Children (Holt, Rinehart, & Winston,…
Elementary students love series titles. They enjoy the comfort of familiar characters, settings, and structures. This is especially true for emergent and newly independent readers, whose reading success with these titles encourages them to seek similar books. (Me personally, I learned to read thanks to Matt Christopher’s sports books.)