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May 2024 Edition
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April Rains Bring May...Games!
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May is a great month to tap into fun on TeachingBooks! Specifically, try our book-related games that engage readers, reinforce memory, and hopefully excite students of all ages. These can be bell-ringers in your classrooms or played by individuals or small groups in libraries or at home.
Book Cover Jigsaw Puzzle
Book Description Word Search
Concentration Game
Author/Illustrator Name Game
Each of these games can be played for favorite books, or you can select titles of interest based on grade levels, cultural experiences, genres, and more. Let us know how you’re using games with your readers!
Our best,
The TeachingBooks Team
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Free Vooks Storytime Titles and Resources!
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TeachingBooks and Vooks are extending our partnership to provide an open-access collection of titles and resources for everyone in your community—including 35 Vooks animated storybooks! Remember your favorite picture book as a kid? Now, imagine that story unfolding right before your eyes—the pictures start moving, music begins playing in the background, a voice starts narrating the words aloud. It would be like watching a cartoon... but it's actually your favorite book!
Now available through May 2025, TeachingBooks and Vooks give you permission to freely embed, link to, and share this engaging, fun content directly from your school and library webpages. Visit the link below or contact us for assistance.
Access to these videos and other materials is free for anyone to use for educational purposes through May 2025.
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Explore the Vooks Storytime List
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(Tools to embed and share are located in the upper left corner of the list page.)
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Behind the Books: "Discussing Difficult Subjects with Youth"
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Rex Ogle's new memoir, Road Home (Norton, 2024), recounts what he calls "the darkest chapter of my life." Reflecting on both his own education and the media young people encounter today, Ogle makes the case for children's and young adult literature that opens conversations some educators and parents might prefer to avoid.
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Guest Author posts
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Meet-the-Author Recording: Furia with Yamile Saied Méndez
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In this Meet-the-Author Recording, Yamile Saied Méndez shares her writing journey behind the Pura Belpré Award winning title, Furia (Algonquin, 2020). Méndez explores themes of gender inequality, feminism, and the pursuit of dreams in a changing world, culminating in a deeply personal and empowering story she was proud to share with readers.
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Kaylin Melia George and Mae Waite on Aloha Everything
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Following the journey of a young girl as she connects to the ancestry, land, and culture of her native Hawai'i, Aloha Everything (Red Comet Press, 2024) will inspire readers to discover the beauty of their own homeland. Author Kaylin Melia George and illustrator Mae Waite share how their personal connections to the island came together to create this magical story filled with stunning illustrations that brightly capture the text.
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Virtual Book Tour posts
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Sheryl Haft on Teaching and Writing
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"Let's engineer!" In this For Teachers, By Teachers post, author Sheryl Haft shares how the exploration and discovery concepts in her book Mazie's Amazing Machines (Penguin, 2023) can lead students to develop problem-solving skills for today and the future.
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Teachers, By Teachers posts
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Featured Booklist: Gryphon Award
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Unlock the magic of children's literature with the Gryphon Award! Recognizing books that expertly bridge the gap between read-aloud delights and independent reading thrills, this prestigious award celebrates captivating stories that ignite imaginations and inspire young readers to explore the wonders of the written word.
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Booklist
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Booklists on TeachingBooks
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Watch Katherine Marsh Compete in the Author-Fan Face-off
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This month's Face-off features mega-fan Christian and Katherine Marsh answering questions about The Lost Year (Macmillan, 2023). This National Book Award finalist weaves two historical events—the beginning of the 2020 pandemic and the Ukraine famine of 1932—into a timely story of survival, family, and preserving history.
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Watch This Video
Face-off
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The Lost Year on TeachingBooks
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Enjoy all Author-Fan Face-off Episodes
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Keep Smiling in the Library with TeachingBooks
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Celebrate reading joy with silly stories that keep readers smiling. Find humorous titles, giggle along with author recordings, and laugh out loud together with Reader's Theater scripts. |
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Wednesday, May 22, 2024 12:00 CT
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Register
Now
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Don't worry if you can't attend live. Sign up and receive a recording.
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Building Digital Reading Skills
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Incorporate digital reading of longer texts, like ebooks, in the classroom so that students build deep digital reading skills. Activate the Sora Starter collection and immediately provide readers with hundreds of unlimited-access, simultaneous-use titles. Then, use the resources on TeachingBooks to build upon and complement instruction.
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Get Free Books
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Explore resources for all Sora Starter titles
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Contests & Giveaways
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Check out our May Contests & Giveaways, accompanied by multimedia resources!
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- Mamie Tape Fights to Go to School by Traci Huahn & Michelle Jing Chan (Penguin, 2024)
- Sunny Parker is Here to Stay by Margaret Finnegan (Simon & Schuster, 2024)
- Eyes Open by Lyn Miller-Lachmann (Lerner, 2024)
- And more!
See the May
Contests & Giveaways on our blog
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