Learn about a “superpower” that’s not taught in 90% of schools. Help out at http://code.org/ Starring Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, will.i.am, NBA All-star Chris Bosh, Jack Dorsey, Tony Hsieh, Drew Houston, Gabe Newell, Ruchi Sanghvi, Elena Silenok, Vanessa Hurst, and Hadi Partovi. Directed by Lesley Chilcott. Need subtitles or translations? See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKIu9yen5nc AND SEE: Hello…
Category: Children’s Literature
Poetry Time With Charles Waters
Meet actor and poet Charles Waters: Poetry column: Joy erupts into poetry explosion, promotes literacy By MICHAEL HOOVER For The Evening Sun EXCERPT: Katie Lasky and Charles Waters, two treasures of humanity employed by Poetry Alive!, spent the past couple weeks involving Adams County students in the memorization and performance of poetry by noted…
Building Communities and Embracing Diversity
Notes from a Keynote address to the Idaho Library Association In every county in Idaho, and all across America, I see young people tutoring and mentoring, building homes, caring for seniors, and feeding the hungry. I also see them using their entrepreneurial spirit to build companies, start non-profits, and drive our new economy. We live…
Write Beside Them: Risk, Voice, and Clarity in High School Writing
This book is about teaching writing and the gritty particulars of teaching adolescents. But it is also the planning, the thinking, the writing, the journey: all I’ve been putting into my teaching for the last two decades. This is the book I wanted when I was first given ninth graders and a list of novels…
Popular Tenth Grade Creative Writing Printables
Short Story Sequencing by Joy Evans contains 20 stories of familiar How to activities, each told in four or six brief segments, that your students can cut and paste into a logical sequence. Each of the 20 stories is illustrated with line art of a fuzzy bear doing fun things like washing his dog, painting…
Editing Without an Editor Workshop
A fabulous workshop is being offered by two experienced editors: Eileen Robinson, creator of F1rst Pages; and Harold Underdown, author of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Publishing Children’s Books. Do you have a manuscript—picture book, novel, or nonfiction—that needs work? Do you wish you could learn techniques that would help you revise not only this…
Artists Create Stunning Tribute To Maurice Sendak
“Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters — sometimes very hastily — but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, “Dear Jim:…
JANE ADDAMS CHILDREN’S BOOK AWARDS ANNOUNCED
Recipients of the 2013 Jane Addams Children’s Book Awards were announced by the Jane Addams Peace Association. Each Kindness, written by Jacqueline Woodson, illustrated by E.B. Lewis and published by Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin, is the winner in the Books for Younger Children Category. We’ve Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children’s…
The maternal effect: How mother deer protect their future kings
Do mothers invest more care in their sons if they believe their child is destined to be a king, president or a high-powered leader? The answer is definitively yes – as long as those mothers and their sons happen to have hooves. It always comes up when people are comparing their most traumatic movie experiences:…
Paperback version of “Soldier of Rome: Journey to Judea” is now available
This compelling novel, written for a general audience, is ideal for young adults. Soldier of Rome: Journey to Judea: Book Five of the Artorian Chronicles (Volume 5) The year is 31 A.D. It is five years into the Judean governorship of Pontius Pilate and the province ever stands on the edge of a knife. The…
