It's Monday! What Are You Reading is hosted by Jen and Kellee at Teach Mentor Texts Nonfiction Monday is hosted by Perogies and Gyoza Etched in Clay: The Life of Dave, Enslaved Potter and Poet is writer/illustrator Andrea Chen's masterful collection of poems,  which tell the story of how an enslaved man transformed his craft into protest art. ...

It's Monday! What Are You Reading is hosted by Jen and Kellee At Teach Mentor Texts Nonfiction Monday is hosted by Annastasia Suen at  Booktalking David Adler's Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad is both a wonderful biography of Tubman, as well as a history of the abolition movement in which she played such an important role.  Tubman's ...

It's Monday! What Are You Reading is hosted by Jen and Kellee At Teach Mentor Texts Nonfiction Monday is hosted by A Mom's Spare Time Just in time for Earth Day (today, April 22nd.!), I discovered this marvelous book- Heroes of the Environment:True Stories of People Who Are Helping to Protect Our Planet, written by Harriet Rohmer and illustrated ...

It's Monday! What Are You Reading is hosted by Jen and Kellee At Teach Mentor TextsI love it when a student comes rushing into my classroom waving a new book she or he has just discovered and now wants me to read ASAP.  That is exactly what happened a  week ago when Sarah raced in on Monday morning waving Deborah Ellis' ''The Breadwinner.''   I ...

The Nonfiction Picture Book event 10 for10 is a wonderful event hosted by Cathy at Reflect and Refine  ,  Julie  of Write at the Edge, and Mandy , of Enjoy and Embrace Learning.  Everyone participating has to ask themselves the following questions: What are 10 nonfiction books you cannot live without in your classroom? What books do your ...

It's Monday! What Are You Reading is hosted by Jen and Kellee At Teach Mentor Texts Nonfiction Monday is hosted by Tammy at Apples With Many Seeds My  copy of Marjane Satrapi’s amazing graphic memoir, “Persepolis,” is dogeared and shabby looking from having been read so often.  I've lent it out to ex-students now in high school, and each time I ...

It's Monday! What Are You Reading is hosted by Jen and Kelee At Teach Mentor Texts  Nonfiction Monday is hosted by Laura Salas at laurasalas I'm still on the hunt for nonfiction titles for my classroom, and it seems that this particular genre is booming at the moment - so many new titles to discover every time I visit our local library!  This ...

It's Monday! What Are You Reading is hosted by Jen and Kellee at Teach Mentor Texts Nonfiction Monday is hosted by LibrarYAn  In honor of Dr. King, I purchased this glorious book for our classroom library:  The book contains a synopsis of the speech, the full text of the speech and a CD of Dr. King's stirring speech.   Of course, ...

It's Monday! What Are You Reading is hosted by Jen and Kellee at Teach Mentor Texts Nonfiction Monday is hosted by 100 Scope Notes In my search for mentor texts for our next nonfiction investigation, narrative nonfiction, I found Mimi's Village: And How Basic health Care Transformed It written by Katie Smith Milway, and illustrated by Eugenie ...

It's Monday! What Are You Reading is hosted by Jen and Kellee at Teach Mentor Texts      The Kid Lit Challenge is hosted by Alyson at Kid Lit Frenzy  Nonfiction Monday is hosted by Prose and Kahn For the last Monday of the year, I have the following finds:First, for professional reading, I read Penny Kittle's new Book Love.  This is the reading ...