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Here are 10 books worth checking out in the young adult, middle grade and picture books categories, according to CADL experts
The Wayside School books take place on the thirtieth story of Wayside School, which is taught by Mrs. Jewls, a nice teacher with occasionally impractical teaching methods. She is the replacement for the old teacher, Mrs. Gorf, who was an evil teacher who could wiggle her ears and stick out her tongue to turn the students into apples.
Alex Gino at the 16th International Literature Festival Berlin (2016). Alex Gino wrote the novel "because it was the book [they] wanted to read" growing up. [2] Gino also wanted to write it because they noticed a lack of transgender middle-grade literature aimed for 3rd grade to 7th grade, and they hoped the book would "help transgender children feel less alone."
Alice and Jerry was a basal reader educational series published and used in classrooms from the mid-1930s to the 1960s. The books sold nearly 100 million copies worldwide. This series competed at the time with the Dick and Jane educational seri
“College: two hundred people reading the same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books.” So wrote John Cage, composer, teacher, and lifelong student.And he had a ...
Dick and Jane are the two protagonists created by Zerna Sharp for a series of basal readers written by William S. Gray to teach children to read. The characters first appeared in the Elson-Gray Readers in 1930 and continued in a subsequent series of books through the final version in 1965. These readers were used in classrooms in the United ...
Between July 1, 2022, and June 31, 2023, the national freedom-of-speech organization recorded 3,362 instances of book bans in US public school classrooms and libraries — an increase of 33% ...
Shared reading is an instructional approach in which the teacher explicitly models the strategies and skills of proficient readers. [1]In early childhood classrooms, shared reading typically involves a teacher and a large group of children sitting closely together to read and reread carefully selected enlarged texts.