tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4960496488138692212024-03-05T04:48:29.126-05:00RACHELLE BURK, Children's Author ~ School Author Visits ~ STEAM Educator Rachelle Burk writes books for Pre-K through grade 8. Available for SCHOOL AUTHOR VISITS:
Rachelle writes fiction, nonfiction for children. Her background as a popular children's entertainer guarantees a presentation that is inspirational, educational, and hysterically funny. Rachelle, a New Jersey resident, has visited schools in 18 states.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-496049648813869221.post-66957867652662276492009-12-16T16:24:00.047-05:002024-01-15T20:19:12.216-05:00<div style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;">
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just that."</span><span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span></b><b style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">~<i>Principal, Lindeneau School</i></span></span></b></span></li><li><b style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">"Several teachers have told me you were the best author
we have had at our school! " </span><span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">~<i>Jaggard School PTA President</i></span></span></b></li><li><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">"I've been to many author presentations over the </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">years and I have to say yours was the most fun and engaging." </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">~ <i>Reading Specialist, Sandshore School</i></span></b></span></li><li><span style="background-color: white;"><b style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">"You were a big hit, all the kids and staff loved you and the middle school students (who never like anything) LOVED YOUR PRESENTATION!" </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>~Director, Mazel K-8 Day School, NY</i></span></b></span></li><li><span style="background-color: white;"><b style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>"Our best author visit ever." </i></span></b><b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>~ Reading Specialist, Upper Hartford Elementary, Mt. Laurel, NJ</i></span></b></span></li></ul></div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;"><i>~</i><u><span style="color: #000099; font-size: large;">ASSEMBLY PROGRAMS</span></u></span>: <i style="font-family: "times new roman";"><b>Each assembly is tailored to the specific grade level(s). </b></i> <b><i> </i></b></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><b>ROCKIN' RESEARCH! NONFICTION WRITING & RESEARCH</b>: Using examples from her own publications, Rachelle demonstrates the research process (and how FUN it can be). Rachelle has interviewed explorers, a spy, an astronaut, and a blind artist. Students will discover the excitement of research and in writing nonfiction, and why even fiction requires research of the facts. For grades 3-8. </span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Special Author Visit programs f<span style="color: #6600cc;"><span style="color: black;">or the very young; includes storytelling and/or book reading following age-appropriate presentation about making stories. </span></span></span></span>Rachelle touches on the importance of curiosity, creativity, and imagination. The author talks about how story ideas are born, and how even the youngest child can create a book. The simple talk is followed by a spirited, funny, interactive storytelling.</span></div><div><br />
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and entertaining evening assembly that shows parents and children how
to bring reading and writing into their every day lives in simple, fun
ways--even for the reluctant readers and writers. </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;">Story building</span> group exercize, demonstrating how we come up with
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<span style="font-size: large;">~<b><span style="color: purple;">Classroom Guides and various activities</span> </b></span><b style="font-size: 100%;">related to Rachelle's books can be found by clicking on the specific book covers in the left column. You can also find a full sheet in the "preparing for your visit" link on the right.</b><br />
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<a href="http://toothfairytrap.blogspot.com/" style="text-indent: 0in;" target="_blank"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #5f497a; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">LITTLE ENGINEERS BUILD TOOTH FAIRY TRAPS!</span></i></span></b></a><br />
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This Connecticut school chose <span style="color: purple;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Tooth Fairy Trap</i></span> for their annual <b>“One
School, One Book” program</b>. For more photos and projects, <a href="http://toothfairytrap.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">click HERE</a>.</div>
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school used their ingenious engineering skills to create their own fairy traps.
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-496049648813869221.post-17941687218461122872008-12-07T20:54:00.003-05:002023-12-14T11:28:31.580-05:00FICTION & NONFICTION MAGAZINE STORIES <p> </p><h2 style="background-color: #66bb33; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; position: relative;">NONFICTION MAGAZINE STORIES</h2><div class="widget-content"><ul style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; line-height: 1.2; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><li style="border-top: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0.35em 0px;"><b>click links to download articles</b></li><li style="border-top: none; font-size: 13.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0.35em 0px;"><a href="http://s188324824.onlinehome.us/NonfictionArticles/RobotZoo.4pp.pdf" style="background-color: white; color: #cc3300; text-decoration-line: none;">Robot Zoo (Scholastic SuperScience)</a></li><li style="border-top: 1px dashed rgb(119, 119, 119); font-size: 13.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0.35em 0px;"><a href="http://s188324824.onlinehome.us/ReindeerRacing_ScienceWorld.docx" style="background-color: white; color: #cc3300; text-decoration-line: none;">Dashing Through the Snow: Reindeer racing keeps herding alive in the arctic (Scholastic Science World)</a></li><li style="border-top: 1px dashed rgb(119, 119, 119); font-size: 13.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0.35em 0px;"><a href="http://s188324824.onlinehome.us/BlindAmbition_Highlights_Jan.2009.pdf" style="background-color: white; color: #cc3300; text-decoration-line: none;">BLIND AMBITION (~Highlights Magazine, Jan. 2009-Nonfiction) A teenage skier doesn't let his blindness slow him down. (Highlights Magazine Author of the Month Award)</a></li><li style="border-top: 1px dashed rgb(119, 119, 119); font-size: 13.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0.35em 0px;"><a href="http://s188324824.onlinehome.us/NonfictionArticles/VolcanicLightning_MoonSmash.pdf" style="background-color: white; color: #cc3300; text-decoration-line: none;">Volcanic Lightning & Moon Smash (Scholastic Science World)</a></li><li style="border-top: 1px dashed rgb(119, 119, 119); font-size: 13.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0.35em 0px;"><a href="http://s188324824.onlinehome.us/SkisNoLimit_ScholasticScope.pdf" style="background-color: white; color: #cc3300; text-decoration-line: none;">The Skis No Limit (Scholastic Scope). 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(Original title: "I Ate Your Guts!")</span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="color: #38761d;">THE HOLIDAY HOUSE</span></b></u><span style="color: #333333;"> (~Highlights Magazine, Fiction). A girl helps her elderly neighbor decorate his house for many holiday celebrated by everyone in their community.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #e06666;"><u><b>TO CATCH A FAIRY</b></u><b> </b></span><span style="color: #333333;">(~Dragonfly Spirit, Poem) A child sets a trap to catch the tooth fairy.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>MISMATCHED SOCKS</b> </span></u><span style="color: #333333;">(Pockets Magazine, Poem) How many uses can you find for odd socks that survived the dryer?</span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u style="color: #333333;"><b>THE WRITE STUFF:</b></u><span style="color: #333333;"> Monthly column in national Kidsville News classroom magazine.</span></span></li></ul><p></p></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-496049648813869221.post-38926995336322519041999-12-07T21:01:00.006-05:002023-12-14T13:04:53.436-05:00ANOTHER JOY OF BEING AN AUTHOR IS HANGING OUT WITH AUTHOR FRIENDS!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhyPc6vGEYkCo1a689e2NELxJRU_Vjda834U7sVZflfSgNsB3Tp0_O34aHpQJSqsgmNKU8L9KNfsh-leaJqLybQy03l1BZAzN4XQqqEjBL0PRNUy273ycWEGR421icElY7AOWIUew8rIiuVJW2p1AYHz8-Hq4XXNnKM9O0OcCOyJ-5K2Y-_GybmN9Xqmvry" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1427" data-original-width="1904" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhyPc6vGEYkCo1a689e2NELxJRU_Vjda834U7sVZflfSgNsB3Tp0_O34aHpQJSqsgmNKU8L9KNfsh-leaJqLybQy03l1BZAzN4XQqqEjBL0PRNUy273ycWEGR421icElY7AOWIUew8rIiuVJW2p1AYHz8-Hq4XXNnKM9O0OcCOyJ-5K2Y-_GybmN9Xqmvry=w400-h300" title="pizza with DAN GUTTMAN" width="400" /></a> </div><span style="font-family: verdana;"> Pizza with DAN GUTTMAN</span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiHKEO6UqymvlLWvh0DACGCELed1RJ5iE5FNOgDr878oU9kW0VHS6W9NF_kD3MXy9L1G7Wlfx0yZFxgNaYwhzHUQh3C26bXVU6UcCVsGymMwn-B0WFhqKNTcT5BjcGThrLrgsH_dQ6eY9iZZb5Au2tpUYoEQZAZSIryyu4K3mGphBHOwplDbq358tvq_eYu" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1830" data-original-width="3100" height="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiHKEO6UqymvlLWvh0DACGCELed1RJ5iE5FNOgDr878oU9kW0VHS6W9NF_kD3MXy9L1G7Wlfx0yZFxgNaYwhzHUQh3C26bXVU6UcCVsGymMwn-B0WFhqKNTcT5BjcGThrLrgsH_dQ6eY9iZZb5Au2tpUYoEQZAZSIryyu4K3mGphBHOwplDbq358tvq_eYu=w400-h236" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"> Dinner with JANE YOLEN, HEIDI STEMPLE, and TARA LAZAR</span><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDHELV9TldtOTMmIQunqFhG3xYkKKp163LHIe1U6RSo0Ea90AOM3mrhgUK7NrynYpvY3N6YbhkbRj3pYbnEdrCw7q4kEP8Nm5VGBSX4VfXDZymKBePWYtSCRMLeWVZm_0yVXYKhFBDnaLAANr2pewkMMF1k-kHerv6_1GggTkXl33pg0xNncg4bKalX7U5/s2818/BethFerry.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2289" data-original-width="2818" height="325" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDHELV9TldtOTMmIQunqFhG3xYkKKp163LHIe1U6RSo0Ea90AOM3mrhgUK7NrynYpvY3N6YbhkbRj3pYbnEdrCw7q4kEP8Nm5VGBSX4VfXDZymKBePWYtSCRMLeWVZm_0yVXYKhFBDnaLAANr2pewkMMF1k-kHerv6_1GggTkXl33pg0xNncg4bKalX7U5/w400-h325/BethFerry.jpg" title="Book festival with BETH FERRY" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> Book festival with BETH FERRY</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgJOMSVNbrBOR29nbmePmM00xesk2087vDzjhxuH4hXfysILjCNWqYb3QpgZeTDGOB9EpUrOdulVW5mrl-RrTWUmMVE98PpR3k2mPbXSBziFBnvno_vglsx0KXmfkh38sGxg5t5LLGfLdzzQHSBqFiu5iY1Yp_WJHrLOxOH946bhX2_Y3Kz5yxZrIv-MSg4" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2340" data-original-width="4160" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgJOMSVNbrBOR29nbmePmM00xesk2087vDzjhxuH4hXfysILjCNWqYb3QpgZeTDGOB9EpUrOdulVW5mrl-RrTWUmMVE98PpR3k2mPbXSBziFBnvno_vglsx0KXmfkh38sGxg5t5LLGfLdzzQHSBqFiu5iY1Yp_WJHrLOxOH946bhX2_Y3Kz5yxZrIv-MSg4=w640-h360" width="640" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Presentation with ROBIN NEWMAN, MARIA ANDREU, JULIE GONZALEZ, TIMOTHY YOUNG, TARA LAZAR, JOSH FUNK, & ME </div></span><p></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com