April Web Resources

New! A Library Play for National Library Week
This brief, two-person play encourages children to use their public library.
New! A Chain Tale from India
These lessons use nonfiction and a traditional folktale to introduce students to India and the reading skill of sequencing.
New! Meet Marianne Mitchell
Toni Buzzeo talks with the author of Joe Cinders.
New! Library Lessons: Inkheart
Capitalize on the increased interest in Inkheart caused by the major motion picture with related lessons and activities.
New! Novels Written in Verse
The books in this growing genre can help encourage reluctant readers.
Freebies, Doodads, & Helpful Hints
“It’s an Idiom” Matching Game and Book Review Forms.
Curriculum Connections: Fractured Fairy Tales
“Fairy Tale Marketplace” barter activity.
Keep ‘em Reading: Love a Book, Love a Librarian
“Love a Book, Love a Librarian” Venn Diagram and “What Makes a Good Librarian?” chart.
Meet the Author: Jon Scieszka
Hear Jon Scieszka read “The Really Ugly Duckling” from The Stinky Cheese Man and from Science Verse.
Reader’s Theater: The Gold Miner’s Daughter: A Melodramatic Fairy Tale
Rebus patterns to be used with the script.
Fiction/Nonfiction: Sense-sational Selections for PK–K
Simon Senses Game Pattern
Webliography
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