Nick's Picks

Selected Resources from TeachingBooks.net

Nick Glass, TeachingBooks.net for Curriculum Connections -- School Library Journal, 12/2/2008

It's the creativity and professional passion of educators that mesmerizes and encourages me in my work. As we experience challenging economic times, it's clear that we must be efficient with the resources we have on hand. In this month’s column, I’m highlighting online material that can be integrated—without charge—into lesson plans. These resources will enrich the lives of young readers.

• Invite teachers and students to meet the new Children’s Poet Laureate, Mary Ann Hoberman, via an original TeachingBooks.net video.   
• Encourage children to experience Jon Scieszka’s stories by listening to the author read from his collection, The Stinky Cheese Man (Viking, 1992).
• Offer insight into Walter Dean Myers’s childhood with an audio clip.  
• Share literary criticism and extended-response materials pertaining to Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird–almost 20 selections in all.

If you have any creative ideas on how we can continue to engage students and support each other, please send your suggestions to me at the address below.

Nick Glass is the Founder of TeachingBooks.net.  nick@teachingbooks.net

Meet poet Mary Ann Hoberman, the self-proclaimed "walking, talking, rhyming dictionary"

Named the second Children’s Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation, Hoberman is the author of the “You Read to Me, I’ll Read to You” series (Little, Brown) and numerous other titles for children. In this movie the poet talks about and recites from her books. 



Listen to Jon Scieszka read from The Stinky Cheese Man

The first National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature shares a favorite story from his collection of “…Fairly Stupid Tales” in this audio clip.




At birth he was given the name Walter Milton Myers. Learn why the prolific author changed it

The young adult author pays respect to a special family in this TeachingBooks.net Author Name Pronunciation.




Choose from a collection of resources to enrich a reading of To Kill A Mockingbird

Need new ideas for teaching this classic? With so much material available, including literary criticism and extended-response materials, you’re sure to find something here to revive your classroom discussions and activities.