Roaring Brook Press (2017) | ISBN: 978-1626725638 Today is the second post in a series of three for a unit I’m calling “TOGETHER. APART. REGRET. NEW START?” Each Monday for the next 2 weeks, I’ll share a brief lesson to accompany a picture book that invites students into a conversation about empathy, friendship, and the… Read more »
Dianne White
I WALK WITH VANESSA by Kerascoët
Schwartz & Wade (2018) | ISBN: 978-1524769567 Today begins a series I’m calling “TOGETHER. APART. REGRET. NEW START?” Each Monday for the next 3 weeks, I’ll share a brief lesson to accompany a picture book that invites students into a conversation about empathy, friendship, and the path from conflict to resolution. This week’s book is… Read more »
IF YOU COME TO EARTH by Sophie Blackall
If you come to Earth, there are a few things you need to know… Things like: Our planet is the “greeny-blue one.” It has “green and brown bits.” Land. And blue stuff. Water. There are big cities, small towns, tiny villages. Homes. Families. Even identical twins are different. In fact, many others things are different,… Read more »
School’s Out for Summer!
Clipart by Cliparts.co It’s been a busy year for the ReaderKidZ and an even busier seven years since we first began blogging with the purpose of providing teachers, librarians, and parents with the resources and inspiration to foster a love of reading in kids, K-5. Along with the times, our schedules are changing and it’s become harder… Read more »
Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets
ReaderKidZ welcomes Karen Jameson with today’s guest post: “Poems come out of wonder, not out of knowing.” This quote, by children’s author and poet Lucille Clifton, inspired the title of Kwame Alexander’s latest poetry offering, Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets (Candlewick, March 2017). Published just in time to welcome Poetry Month, this gorgeous picture… Read more »
Princess Posey and the First Grade Play
The first graders in Posey’s class are reading about bees and plan a play to share what they’ve learned with the other first grade classes. Caitlyn certainly knows a lot about bees. Her mother’s even given her a small yellow eraser in the shape of a bee. “Who cares about an old eraser?” Posey says… Read more »
Make Way for… Buddy and Earl!
Make room, Elephant and Piggie. Step aside, Frog and Toad. Picture book pals, Buddy and Earl, have arrived on the scene! When Buddy, an unassuming dog, and Earl, a clever hedgehog, meet in book one of the Buddy and Earl series, all bets are off. The two strike up an unlikely friendship, passing an otherwise… Read more »
