This is the second in a series of three posts that include craft tables you can download for use during your conferences or strategy lessons. If you missed last week's post, which talked about what craft tables are and how to create them, then click here to read it now. This week I'm sharing two… Continue reading Craft Tables for You — Part II of III
Category: picture book
Craft Tables for You — Part I of III
Craft tables are a way to organize one’s thinking about a books teachers will be use as a mentor text. Since a good deal of the mentor text work we do with students in writing workshop happens during one-to-one writing conferences and during small group strategy lessons, it helps to know books really well. Hence,… Continue reading Craft Tables for You — Part I of III
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An Interview with Tad Hills + a Book Giveaway
Tad Hills's new book, Rocket Writes a Story, is as touching and well-written as the first Rocket book, Rocket Learned to Read. This book is sure to become a mentor text in primary writing workshops since Rocket has trouble generating ideas for writing and moving through the writing process. I am quite sure that the tale… Continue reading An Interview with Tad Hills + a Book Giveaway
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Mentor Texts and Journal Articles and Professional Books… Oh My!
A BIG thank you to the people who graciously responded to the post I wrote in March when I was compiling the book list for the graduate course I'm teaching. The titles you suggested were great additions to the rough draft of the book list I had compiled. Unfortunately, some of the books were not… Continue reading Mentor Texts and Journal Articles and Professional Books… Oh My!
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Hugo Cabret
For Christmas we gave Sam The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick. Sam and I have been reading it ever since. I like to move through books quickly, often staying up into the wee hours of the morning to finish the story. I can't wait to finish stories, wanting the character world to be restored… Continue reading Hugo Cabret
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Giveaway Winners for Leslie Patricelli Books
Thanks to everybody who entered Be Quiet, Mike and Leslie Patricellie Board Book Three-Pack Giveaways. Candlewick Press will be sending the following books to the following people who left comments on the Boss Baby Post. (If you missed the interview with Leslie Patricelli, then click here to read it.) Be Quiet, Mike! goes to Kristy… Continue reading Giveaway Winners for Leslie Patricelli Books
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An Interview with Leslie Patricelli + Giveaways
About a month or two after my daughter was born, I posted several status updates on my Facebook page complaining about the quality of the board books we had. They were too short, with few if any words, and didn’t hold my attention. I know board books serve a legitimate purpose in a baby’s literacy… Continue reading An Interview with Leslie Patricelli + Giveaways
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Buglette Blog Tour + A Giveaway
Buglette, the Messy Sleeper arrived at my doorstep about two weeks ago. (Review copy provided by Tricycle Press.) I was immediately drawn to the book for the fact that I was notorious for being a messy sleeper throughout my childhood. Buglette, who is a bug, is a messy sleeper because she has BIG dreams each… Continue reading Buglette Blog Tour + A Giveaway
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President Obama’s Book + the Final Giveaway of 2010
Last month President Barack Obama published a picture book, of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters, which is illustrated exquisitely by Loren Long. I received a review copy of it while I was at NCTE. Since my husband was with me, I shared the book with him. We were both impressed by the… Continue reading President Obama’s Book + the Final Giveaway of 2010
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Thumb Love Blog Tour
Elise Primavera is the author of Thumb Love, a humorous look at Lulu who goes through a 12-step program to quit thumb-sucking. Elise's guest blog post deals with writing Thumb Love, which deals with the universal theme of thumb sucking, as well as with getting published as an author. Click here to view the book… Continue reading Thumb Love Blog Tour
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Interrupting Chicken Blog Tour
David Ezra Stein wrote Leaves, which was one of my favorite picture books in 2008. Therefore, I was excited to read his newest picture book, The Interrupting Chicken, which was released this week. Stein was kind enough to answer a few questions I had about The Interrupting Chicken, as well as a few other things… Continue reading Interrupting Chicken Blog Tour
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Inspiration for an Independent Writing Project
With the school year wrapping up, I'm assuming that many of you are starting your final units of study. I'm sure many of you are doing an independent writing project unit so as to get your students ready to go off and write independently this summer. When I received a review copy of Todd H.… Continue reading Inspiration for an Independent Writing Project
