Such a good resource for helping us get our students engaged in 'doing the work' of learning for themselves. Thank you Jackie Walsh Emily Brokaw

NEW: What Picture Books Add to a Middle School Class.
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When middle schoolers experience picture book read-alouds, they feel nostalgia, build abstract thinking skills & share positive experiences, writes Katie Durkin.

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Teachers Crestview Elementary took advantage of personal coaching from Sunday Cummins, Ph.D.. Each teacher took risks and did an amazing job! #CrestviewWeBelong

Another amazing day of learning alongside Sunday Cummins, Ph.D. Thank you for digging in to collaborative language frames and lifting the vocabulary for our readers!! NKC Schools Anjanette Smith Lisa Friesen Casi Hodge Chouteau Elementary School

Do you provide transparent feedback? And do you collect student 'voice data' or 'feedback on feedback' to make your feedback stronger? Some great tips here. Thanks Miriam Plotinsky

How to make annotation meaningful via Sunday Cummins, Ph.D.

They sure did! So inspiring! Thank you for letting me learn along with you!!!

MIRRORING & MERGING - the stories of a star's development and a star scientist's journey. BRILLIANT. Great addition to a growing text set of women in this area of STEM. Thank you Katherine Roy 🌱 & Kirsten W. Larson is more active elsewhere Chronicle Books #teachnonfiction
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When the Sky Glows - Highly recommend as a k-2 read aloud to introduce students to the concept of 'light' in the natural world. Beautiful language and illustrations. Thank you @nellbeckerman David Litchfield @SIMONkids #teachnonfiction

Stock up for the upcoming season of scary or just enjoy reading aloud anytime your students are studying the body! Love this growing text set by Stacy McAnulty Shawna J. C. Tenney Matthew Rivera #NFtextset #teachnonfiction #nurturinginformedthinking

Still miss Steve Jenkins. Don't miss his newest (and maybe last) book The Animal Toolkit, though. Make it part of a set with Animal Teachers by @janethalfmann & Katy Hudson and Tooling Around by Ellen Jackson & Renné Benoit #nurturinginformedthinking #teachnonfiction #NFtextset

Please don't wait until the 'nonfiction unit of study' to immerse students in informational sources. A great way to start is with a well-designed, content-strong series like this one by @annettewhipple! #teachnonfiction #NFtextset #nurturinginformedthinking

Beautiful back to school read alouds with male protagonists can be surprisingly hard to find. Highly recommend these for k-1! Thank you Sandhya Parappukkaran, Michelle Pereira, Phùng Nguyên Quang, Huỳnh Kim Liên, Susan Choi, John Rocco

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'I have sound boxes in my brain!' A joyous moment during a reading conference when an early stage reader made the connection between phonics lessons and word solving while reading! YAY!!! Short blog entry about this at bit.ly/3R52jTH.

It makes me so happy that Jennifer Hottinger said 'adventure'...YES! It's an adventure in a book! And a great one to bring some adventure to your classroom during spooky season🦇🦇🦇🦇 #bookposse

In honor of back to school, one of our favorites from Huỳnh Kim Liên and Phùng Nguyên Quang! MY FIRST DAY is so gorgeous, and I can't wait for you to see the illustrations for IF LIN CAN next April. Wishing all students, teachers, librarians and parents an awesome school year!

Such a great book!!!

For a few years now, I've been working with California Indian Education for All (CIEFA) California Indian Education for All. Recently, we worked on a downloadable booklist. Take a look! drive.google.com/file/d/1Cl-9BK…