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 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 | Aug 21, 2023 | New Text Discovery
How many nonfiction books are in your classroom library? As a teacher myself, I would venture to guess not enough! And, as a science advocate, of course I have the research to back up that claim. 😊 But before I share that research, would you please take a moment to...
by Emily Starr | Oct 6, 2022 | Featured Post, New Text Discovery
The leaves are changing colors here in Iowa and pumpkin-spiced everything has exploded in town – seriously, in my house we even have pumpkin scented hand soap. If you are anything like me as a teacher, I flipped the calendar to October and began looking for...
by Emily Starr | Sep 13, 2022 | New Text Discovery
The Science and Engineering Practices are what scientists and engineers do. So obviously we should have our students actively doing these practices in our classrooms! I’ve also found it helpful for students to see these practices modeled – and who better...