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LitLinks: How time travel will help students reduce single-use plastic

March 22, 2023

GUEST BLOGGER KRISTEN WALKER This lesson combines awareness of modern-day plastic pollution with the historical […]

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LitLinks: An easy lesson to help students write a desert rap

March 15, 2023

GUEST BLOGGER DARCY PATTISON What is rap? It’s a poetic form that plays with rhymes: […]

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LitLinks: 5 ways to use nonfiction kidlit in the classroom

March 8, 2023

BY PATRICIA NEWMAN Many of the teachers I speak with are not finding the info-licious […]

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LitLinks: 4 easy arts activities that supplement nonfiction reading

March 1, 2023

GUEST BLOGGER LISA L. OWENS When nonfiction readers have an opportunity to make meaningful outside-the-book […]

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LitLinks: How to introduce students to your local river basin

February 22, 2023

BY PATRICIA NEWMAN We all live in a river basin – the area of land […]

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LitLinks: Build map-reading and compare- contrast skills with a tiny possum and a moth

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GUEST BLOGGER JULIE MURPHY Preparation Tiny Possum and the Migrating Moths is a nonfiction picture […]

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LitLinks: How to integrate STEM and writing with a word bank

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GUEST BLOGGER BETH ANDERSON In my process of writing FRANZ’S PHANTASMAGORICAL MACHINE, I did a […]

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GUEST BLOGGER CHRISTY HALE In Copycat: Nature-Inspired Design Around the World illustrations of plants and […]

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LitLinks: How to invent your own constellations to understand the night sky

January 25, 2023

GUEST BLOGGER KATHRYN HULICK What constellations do you recognize? If you live in North America, […]

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LitLinks: How to use trees to understand how we communicate

January 18, 2023

GUEST BLOGGER SAMANTHA M. CLARK The science of our natural world feeds my books, like […]

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    • A River’s Gifts: The Mighty Elwha River Reborn
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    • Plastic, Ahoy! Investigating the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
    • Ebola: Fears and Facts
    • Jingle the Brass
    • Nugget on the Flight Deck
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