K. A. Nuzum’s award-winning THE LEANIN’ DOG is the perfect selection to begin a summer of solicitous ReaderKidZ reading. This heartwarming novel features protagonist Dessa Dean, a broken, isolated, lonely girl, and the healing power of a stray chocolate lab. Dessa Dean has given up on living outside of the confines of her home. Her life is forever changed… Read more »
Debbie Gonzales
A Kick in the Head: An Everyday Guide to Poetic Forms
Does the thought of teaching poetry cause you to tremble? Does the iambic pentameter make you ill? And, yet you must gather up your gumption and teach it? Yikes! We at ReaderKidZ desire to remind you that kids are natural poets. They love writing and reading poems, especially if there are elements of childlike humor resonating… Read more »
NOODLE AND LOU, by Liz Garton Scanlon
Liz says that Noodle and Lou are really just worm-and-bird versions of herself and the many folks she’s lucky enough to call friends, folks who always seem to see the best in each other. Click HERE to access a Teacher’s Guide cleverly designed by Natalie Dias Lorenzi. In it, along with wonderful pre-reading, vocabulary exercises,… Read more »
Red Sings From the Treetops by Joyce Sidman
Prolific poet and teacher Joyce Sidman states, “Why read [children] poems about worms and beetles? Because the physical world–and the profound lessons that direct contact with that world offers–have, sadly, receded into the background of their lives… More often than not, the dominant images they view every day are created by other minds, other imaginations–with… Read more »
Kristine O’Connell George – The Educator’s Friend
Kristine’s website is packed with a plethora of activity guides, teacher’s guides, and coloring pages to serve as companions for her long list of wonderful books. She has even included a clever interactive mini-web activity in which Kristine demonstrates how writers work to capture writing ideas because, as she says, ideas can be sneaky. Play Kristine’s Tips for Young Poets by clicking HERE. If… Read more »
AN EGG IS QUIET and A SEED IS SLEEPY by Dianna Hutts Aston
The following guide created by Chronicle Books combines activities created for Dianna Hutts Aston’s charming AN EGG IS QUIET and A SEED IS SLEEPY. You may access the innovative activity guide created for children ages K – 5 by clicking HERE. This guide presents multi-level, age appropriate science, language arts, creative writing, reading, and art activities complete with… Read more »
SAND TO STONE AND BACK AGAIN, by Nancy Bo Flood
Click HERE to download a rich, multi-sensory Teacher Guide to compliment Nancy Bo Flood’s dramatic Sand to Stone and Back Again. Desert landforms such as hoodoos and slot canyons, buttes, and mineral jackets are artistically replicated as the child creates sand paintings, sculptures, and plaster-crafted sedimentary rock casts. Vocabulary skills are enhanced as the child engages in a… Read more »
