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FOR TEACHERS

 How to make the most of your School Author Visit

Greetings Video

Please click link to share my Greetings Video with your students!   

POSTER ANNOUNCING VISIT
Click link to print and post around school. 

LUNCH "Rap Session" WITH THE AUTHOR CONTEST

 If your school plans to have a "lunch time rap session" with the author, here's one way to choose participants. (Instructions may be edited). Please have lunch participants wear name tags and have them bring a sample of their creative writing with them.

READ MY BOOKS!
Get the students excited by familiarizing them with my work. Your library may have ordered a set.
You may also request a PDF of some of the books to read to your class. 
Click the links below titles for activity printouts. 

 TREE HOUSE IN A STORM  
K-3 Picture book

ClassroomGuide               Word Search                    Maze                 Crossword Puzzle  

Draw-a-Treehouse         Coloring Pages            Find-The-Differences        Bookmarks (4 per page)

DON'T TURN THE  PAGE! 
PreK-2 Picture book

Draw a picture in Sami’s Book                 Draw Little Bear getting ready for bed

Decorate Sami’s Pajamas                         Decorate Little Bear’s Pajamas:  

Maze (help Sami get to bed)                    Bookmarks (color): 

SONG and DANCE (to the tune of "Row Your Boat")

THE WALKING FISH  
Science-adventure novel, grades 4-7.  
*BEST SCIENCE TRADE BOOKS for K-12 (National Science Teachers Association & Children's Book Council) 

COMMON CORE-ALIGNED CLASSROOM GUIDE

Printable Character Matrix     
Compare/Contrast 2 characters (Venn Diagram)
Create a PREHISTORIC FISH THAT HAS NEVER BEEN DISCOVERED!

            THE TOOTH FAIRY TRAP  
K-2 Chapter book.

Design your own tooth fairy trap          Tooth Fairy Coloring Sheet

Tooth Fairy Job Application                  Reading Comprehension/Trivia questions

PAINTING IN THE DARK: Esref Armagan, Blind Artist

(Picture book biography of a blind artist. Also available in Audio and Braille)

Activities to help understand how blind experience art.

 SLEEP SOUNDLY AT BEAVER'S INN  

 (preK-2 Music-themed picture book. Paperback)

 Classroom guide plus link to instructions for making the instruments in the book

MISS CRUMP'S FUNNY BONE

(Grade 2-4 chapter book - humor - school setting. Paperback.)

ClassroomGuide: Trivia / Comprehension Questions and Discussion Questions  
Compare/Contrast 2 characters (Venn Diagram)

THE BEST FOUR QUESTIONS

What's Wrong with this Picture?
Make a Question Catcher
Simple Explanation of Passover 

NONFICTION MAGAZINE ARTICLES 

(Click links below)

• Robot Zoo (Scholastic SuperScience)
• Dashing Through the Snow:Reindeer racing keeps herding alive in the arctic (Scholastic Science World)
• Volcanic Lightning & Moon Smash (Scholastic Science World)
• The Skis No Limit (Scholastic Scope). Disabled skiers use adaptive equipment and take to the slopes.
• Ask Science World (What are the deadliest animals? Why do fingers wrinkle when wet?

Q&A:

Help the students prepare relevant questions to ask the author at the visit.

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