Insta Review: Maybe a Fox, by Kathi Appelt and Alison McGhee

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram This was the third book about a fox that I read this month. It’s interesting to me the way the fox has become such a popular vehicle for personification and imagery in literature. Each author […]

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#IADWAYR – September 13, 2017

In today’s episode of #IADWAYR, 5th graders in Core 3 answer the question: It’s A Day, What Are You Reading? 

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#IADWAYR – September 5, 2017

In today’s episode of #IADWAYR, 5th graders in Core 2 answer the question: It’s A Day, What Are You Reading?   

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Intsa Review: Awkward, by Svetlana Chmakova

 Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram This graphic novel is all kinds of cute. Penelope (Peppi) is new in school and finds kindred spirits in the Art Club. When the principal pits the Art Club against the Science Club for the […]

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Insta Review: Finding Perfect, by Elly Swartz

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram For fans of Counting by Sevens and Rain, Reign, this story of a young girl struggling with increasing symptoms of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder will be a huge hit. Molly has liked things neat and tidy […]

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Insta Review: Pax, by Sara Pennypacker

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it!   View this post on Instagram This book made my world stop turning. From the moment I started reading Pax, I knew I wouldn't be able to sleep until I finished it. Told from two different points of view, Pax […]

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Insta Review: Cleopatra in Space by Mike Maihack

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram Take Cleopatra, the infamous Pharoh, and inexplicably plant her in space. In the future. At the age of fifteen. Still with me? Well then you’ve got pretty much the whole point of the graphic novel […]

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Words Matter: 2017 Picture Book 10 for 10

Does it feel sometimes like we live in a world where words are shared without much thought to their consequence? Educators have the opportunity to teach students just how powerful their words can be. Now more than ever we want our children to know that words matter. Words can build up or tear down, and […]

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Insta Review: An Elephant in the Garden, by Michael Morpurgo

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram Guys, I tried with this book. I really did. I love reading along with my students and my sixth graders seemed to be enjoying this one in their English class, so I happily picked it […]

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