Curriculum Connections

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December 13, 2007

Introduction

As any teacher can attest, time spent in school provides us with abundant stories. Moving, thought provoking, exasperating, and humorous, our interactions with our students challenge us on many levels. In this month’s multimedia column, Nick Glass features authors, once teachers, who have mined their classroom experiences to provide us with some extraordinary work. Other columns highlight young adult titles “Relating to Race”, novels and poetry with strong graphic components for the angst-filled middle grades, and a childhood in Maoist China. And however you choose to spell and punctuate it—Readers Theatre or Reader’s Theater—throughout the enewsletter you will find some terrific sites and resources offering performances to view and readymade scripts that will have all your students begging for roles.

Daryl Grabarek
Editor, Curriculum Connections
dgrabarek@reedbusiness.com

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Nick's Picks

  • Selected Resources from TeachingBooks.net
    Some noted authors began their careers as teachers, and their classroom experiences have inspired the creation of memorable book characters and school-related stories. This sampling of multimedia materials from TeachingBooks.net will enliven discussions about the work of the author/educators Esmé Raji Codell, Sharon Creech, Chris Crutcher, and Rick Riordan.

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