by Emily Starr | Nov 22, 2024 | New Text Discovery
I hope these posts are helping you to discover some new nonfiction favorites of your own! Here are my favorites from this week: Mars Is: Stark Slopes, Silvery Snow, and Startling Surprises by Suzanne Slade – The photographs! Oh, the photographs! There is something...
by Emily Starr | Nov 15, 2024 | New Text Discovery
I’m back with five more favorites for your reading list! Here are this week’s favorites: Dive! by Chris Gall –As an avid scuba diver, I couldn’t wait to read this history of dive equipment. My husband is even more dive obsessed, so I handed it to him to read to...
by Emily Starr | Nov 12, 2024 | Lesson Ideas and Teaching Tips, Phenomenon Examples
This week, I published a blog post on The Mixed-Up Files of Middle-Grade Authors blog. I’m a contributing author, thrilled to be joined by a group of talented, generous middle-grade writers. In that post, I shared a pre-reading strategy – using phenomena – that helps...
by Emily Starr | Nov 8, 2024 | New Text Discovery
I love picture books. As a fourth-grade teacher, I read picture books to my class nearly every day. As a mom of two elementary-aged boys, I read picture books to them every day. And as an author of picture books, I read picture books every day! So many picture books,...
by Emily Starr | Sep 3, 2024 | Lesson Ideas and Teaching Tips
You made it! Today we’re at the end of seven weeks of bite-sized learning. And though this post is a day later than previously stated (with two young boys it is hard to keep track of Labor Day on the calendar!), today I’m announcing the WINNERS of the One Small Change...
