LitLinks: 4 easy arts activities that supplement nonfiction reading
When nonfiction readers have an opportunity to make meaningful outside-the-book connections back to the material,...
LitLinks: How to introduce students to your local river basin
We all live in a river basin – the area of land drained by a...
LitLinks: Build map-reading and compare- contrast skills with a tiny possum and a moth
Preparation Tiny Possum and the Migrating Moths is a nonfiction picture book about two animal...
LitLinks: How to integrate STEM and writing with a word bank
In my process of writing FRANZ’S PHANTASMAGORICAL MACHINE, I did a lot of collecting and...
LitLinks: How to connect biomimicry problem-solving and tanka
In Copycat: Nature-Inspired Design Around the World illustrations of plants and animals and tanka poetry...
LitLinks: How to use trees to understand how we communicate
The science of our natural world feeds my books, like the Guardian Tree narrator of...
LitLinks: How to use primates to teach across the curriculum
In PECULIAR PRIMATES, kids learn strange ways some primates look or act. In this lesson,...
LitLinks: 5 TECH lessons that highlight the T in STEM
As we gallop headlong into the holidays, I thought it might be fun to think...
LitLinks: Let’s compare a whale fall and a tree fall
Whale Fall Cafe takes readers into the deep sea where they discover an amazing ecosystem...
LitLinks: How do tiny insects defend themselves in a BIG world? Let’s find out.
In Daisy Woodworm Changes the World, 13-year-old Daisy–who speaks with a lisp–finds that her passion for...
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