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Growing Reader

Tween

A Printable Educator’s Guide to Mad Libs

This Mad Libs-inspired curriculum guide provides a fun and engaging way to reinforce your students’ grammar, reading comprehension, and vocabulary skills.

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Tween

6 Fascinating Books for Fact-Loving Kids

If your kid can't get enough of outer space, historical factoids, or scientific phenomena, these seven thought-provoking books are for them.

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Just For Fun

11 Things I Will Never, Ever Admit to My Local Librarian

A library parent (who occasionally does things he’s not exactly proud of) shares the deep, dark secrets his family has kept from their local librarians.

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Growing Reader

Mentor Texts To Teach Children Personal Narrative Writing

Studying fantastic mentor texts exposes students to examples that elevate their personal narrative writing. To expand your classroom’s collection of personal narrative mentor texts, consider these picture books.

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Tween

Teen

Brightly’s Book Club for Kids: The Night Diary

Veera Hiranandani’s The Night Diary is an empathy-building, engaging historical novel that middle grade, young adult, and grown-up readers can all enjoy. Dive deeper into the story with these discussion questions and activities for kids.

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Growing Reader

Tween

10 Imaginative Scenes for Teaching Children to Visualize as They Read

Whether students naturally imagine as they read or need to be taught to do so, they can all benefit from structured practice creating mental images with books like these.

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Pre-K

Growing Reader

A Printable Educator’s Guide to R Is for Rocket: An ABC Book

Explore Common Core Language Arts Anchor Standards with these accessible and engaging R Is for Rocket lesson plans.

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Growing Reader

Tween

Why Kids Say They Love Fairy Tales

Almost any young person can tell you the basic plot of Cinderella or Hansel & Gretel or Little Red Riding Hood. What is it about this genre of stories that make them so memorable and so loved by kids and adults?

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Grown-Up Reads

Tips & Advice

How to Model Your Own Love of Reading in the Classroom (and Why It’s Important)

As teachers, we work to create an impactful learning community in our classrooms, a place where children not only see themselves as readers but also love to read.

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Pre-K

Growing Reader

Tween

An Educator’s Guide to The Day the Crayons Quit and The Day the Crayons Came Home

With these easy-to-follow lesson plans inspired by The Day the Crayons Quit, your students will be generating persuasive arguments and text in no time.

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Just For Fun

Thank You, Teachers Everywhere

Teachers do not solve all of their students’ problems. What they do is infinitely greater: They give children hope, a sense of self, and the all-important realization that their struggles, whatever form they take, will not diminish their potential.

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Pre-K

Growing Reader

Compare and Contrast: How to Use Books to Teach Children Comparative Thinking

Starting at a young age, we can nurture children’s comparative thinking with books, ratcheting up the level of difficulty as they grow in age and developmental ability.

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