Theme/Topic Rules and Laws Why We Chose This Theme/Topic: Rules and laws are essential for maintaining order and fairness in our daily lives. Understanding their purpose and how they are created helps students appreciate the importance of following them. Introducing this unit at the beginning of the school year allows students to collaboratively develop class […]
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8 Valentine’s Day Picture Books to Add to Your Collection
If you’re looking for a “traditional” Valentine’s Day book list, this isn’t it.
3 (Mostly) Non-Fiction Christmas Books
How Santa Really Works Teaching text features? Research and asking questions? This book is for you! The perfect mix of “factual” and whimsy, How Santa Really Works includes diagrams, labelled graphics (see the cover!), detailed pictures and captions, and of course, answers to the questions you really want to to know, such as: How does […]
Mentor Texts for Nonfiction Writing
Mentor Texts is a highly used teaching strategy to get students to emulate authors in their own writing. [see How-To Post]. In my experience and searches, I see that there are a lot of places to find fiction mentor texts, but nonfiction texts seem to be a bit more elusive. Here we share some ideas […]
8 Books to Initiate Discussions on Tolerance, Understanding, and Acceptance
Regardless of where you fall in your opinions on the issues facing the world today, we hope these books can help start or facilitate conversation about differences.
3 Unconventional Math Books
It’s no secret that math isn’t my strongest subject, but lately I have come across a few math books that I really love!
