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Crocodile Listens art
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Author Study and Book Review Activities
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Bumblebee Queen Activities
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Harrison Elementary School Is a Highlight!
One of the highlights of my life as an author was my visit to Harrison School in South Bend, Indiana in March, 2008. Wow! It was a celebration. The creative educators of this school had taken every...
View Article6+ Traits of Writing: Sayre’s Books as Models
Sayre’s Books As Models For Teaching The 6 + Traits of Writing Ideas (details, development, focus) Trout Are Made of Trees Stars Beneath Your Bed: the Surprising Story of Dust Secrets of...
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Life Cycles
Let’s learn about life cycles. How does a toad survive in the desert? Let’s find out. Another animal lays eggs in sand, too-not in the desert, but on a beach. The mother animal weighs as much as a...
View ArticleHonk, Honk, Goose! Canada Geese Start a Family
The male goose stood guard. Honk! he honked at the squirrels. Honk! at the ducks. Honk, hee-honk, honk! at neighboring geese. The day after the chicks hatched, the father and mother took a stroll....
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South Carolina Inspiration
My high school teacher, Lynn Kobelt, is still inspiring young writers in South Carolina. Here is the creative writing book she prepared with middle school students in Greenville. She hasn’t aged and I...
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Dust off a book: physical science storytime!
Let’s begin our physical science storytime. Physical science studies the non-living world around us: air, water, wind, rock, minerals, glaciers, all sorts of things. But these non-living parts of our...
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Wild Author Welcomes
I just had to share a few of the fun photos from schools that rev up their students for author visits. Believe me, I don’t expect anyone to go this far. But the students and educators worked hard and...
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Psst…what’s in this airstream trailer?
What do these cats know? They know someone special. What’s in this airstream trailer? Stories that will amaze you and that will be showing up in your library someday. One of my dear colleagues, author...
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Fish Activities for Trout, Trout, Trout and Trout Are Made of Trees
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Ant, Ant, Ant: an Insect Chant activities
See also the activities for The Bumblebee Queen, Army Ant Parade, and If You Should Hear a Honey Guide. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px;...
View ArticleI. N. K. Interesting Nonfiction for Kids book blog
I.N.K. Montly, I participate in I.N.K., Interesting Nonfiction for Kids. This is a group blog of many leading nonfiction authors and illustrators. The posts are quite stimulating. Lots of big topics...
View ArticleOnline Press Coverage 2007/2008
BLOGS AND OTHER ONLINE LINKS TO PRESS REGARDING BOOKS, VISITS, NEWS I began gathering these via google alerts in late 2007 so I have likely missed gobs from previous years. This is not organized…just a...
View ArticleContest Flyer For Trout Are Made of Trees
Here is the Be a Stream Hero Contest Flyer for grades K-2. Deadline is December 31, 2008. Winner receives a huge collection of new books and a school visit by April Pulley Sayre anywhere in the U. S....
View ArticleGreat Lakes Author Wins Dr. Seuss Award
See this article at Ohio.com! http://www.ohio.com/community/readernews/community/13844327.html
View ArticleLibrarians, Win a Free Book!
Enter by October 31, 2008 to win a signed copy of TROUT ARE MADE OF TREES. www.schoollibraryjournal.com/trout Thank you, Charlesbridge, for joining with School Library Journal to set up this...
View ArticleMockingbird Award Nominee, Abilene, Texas
Trout Are Made of Trees and Vulture View have been nominated for the Mockingbird Award, a reading program of the Abilene Independent School District, Abilene, Texas. What a great program. Each spring...
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