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Making Cents by Elizabeth Keeler Robinson (Author) and Bob McMahon (Illustrator) is about counting and earning money.
Look! We have five pennies.
We can trade them for a…
Nickel!
Teach the traits of ideas and voice as students write about what they can buy with the money they earn.
Six Trait Author Programs and Classroom Writing Workshops
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Elizabeth Leads the Way by Tanya Lee Stone (Author) and Rebecca Gibbon (Illustrator) is the life story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, one of the leaders of the 19th century women’s rights movement.
What would you do
if someone told you
you can’t be what you want to be
because you are a girl?
Teach the traits of organization and conventions as students write about what they think needs to change.
Comments(4) Welcome to the Nonfiction Monday Round-up!
Add your post to the round-up by clicking on the link below. Please write the title of your book or topic (in parentheses) after your name so Mr. Linky makes a hotlink for it. For example: Picture Book of the Day (Elizabeth Leads the Way) I’ll post the links on this page as the day goes on. Thanks!
1. Picture Book of the Day (Elizabeth Leads the Way)
2. Read. Imagine. Talk. (Great Spring Books)
3. Shelf Elf (Elephants and Golden Thrones)
4. Karen’s Slice of Life (See How It’s Made)
5. The Well-Read Child (Surfer of the Century)
6. Julie M. Prince (As Good as Anybody)
7. Jules, 7-Imp (Lady Liberty’s biography and new PB about King and Heschel)
8. Lori Calabrese Writes (I Could Do That! Esther Morris Gets Women the Vote)
9. Becky: Dickens: His Work and His World
10. Wendie’s Wanderings (She Touched the World, Laura Bridgman)
11. Abby the Librarian (She Touched the World)
12. Wild Rose Reader (Poetry & Science, Part I)
13. Read. Imagine. Talk. (Great Spring Books)
14. I.N.K. (Jennifer Armstrong on What I Wish I Had Known)
15. propernoun.net (Browsable Science Titles)
16. Tricia (Sea Queens)
17. Cloudscome (Ralph Ellison biography)
Comments(6) Welcome to the Nonfiction Monday Round-up!
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1. Picture Book of the Day (At Gleason’s Gym)
2. Audiobooker (The Pot that Juan Built)
3. Sarah N. (Wildflowers)
4. Jules, 7-Imp (Leonard Marcus’ Golden Legacy)
5. Abby the Librarian (When is a Planet Not a Planet?)
6. Lori Calabrese Writes (Lou Gehrig: The Luckiest Man)
7. Wendie’s Wanderings (Today at the Bluebird Cafe - Poetry Monday)
8. Tricia (The Planet Hunter)
9. Becky (From Rags to Riches)
10. propernoun.net (Red: The Next Generation of American Writers –Teenage Girls–On What Fires Up Their Lives Today
11. I.N.K. (David Schwartz on Questions for the Author)
12. MotherReader (Body Drama)
13. A Patchwork of Books (Hey, Daddy!)
14. Anamaria (Frogs!)
15. BookMoot (Now and Ben)
16. World of Words
17. Charlotte (Environmental Disasters)
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At Gleason’s Gym by Ted Lewin tells the story of Sugar Boy Younan, the 2006 National Silver Gloves Champion (at age nine!)
Sugar Boy heads up the concrete stairs to the second floor of an old loft building. He pulls open the big steel door that says GLEASON’S GYM…
Teach the traits of organization and ideas as students write about a sport they play.
Comments(8) Welcome to the Nonfiction Monday Round-up!
Add your post to the round-up by clicking on the link below. Please write the title of your book or topic (in parentheses) after your name so Mr. Linky makes a hotlink for it. For example: Picture Book of the Day (I’m a Pill Bug) I’ll post the links on this page as the day goes on. Thanks!
1. Picture Book of the Day (I’m a Pill Bug)
2. Audiobooker (A Little History of the World)
3. Mary Lee (Sisters & Brothers)
4. Sarah N. (Horses and Ponies)
5. Laura Salas (a finalist!)
6. The Well-Read Child (This is My Planet: The Kids’ Guide to Global Warming)
7. Karen’s Slice of Life (Riding to Washington)
8. propernoun.net (Science Poetry)
9. Lori Calabrese Writes (Encyclopedia Prehistorica Dinosaurs: The Definitive Pop-up)
10. Abby the Librarian (Close to Shore)
11. World of Words (Dolley Madison saves George Washington)
12. Jules, 7-Imp (three amazing political women today in my post)
13. Becky (America Through A Lens)
14. Nancy I. Sanders (Research Tips)
15. I.N.K. (Don Brown on History: What’s the Point?)
16. Tricia (If You Hopped Like a Frog)
17. Anamaria (Secret World of Hildegard)
18. cloudscome (biography of Paul Laurence Dunbar)
19. Wendie’s Wanderings (Jabberwocky)
20. A Patchwork of Books (Bugs)
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I’m a Pill Bug by Yukihisa Tokuda (Author) and Kiyoshi Takahasi (Illustrator) tells the life story of a pill bug in his own words:
On the count of three: one, two, three!
Ta-da! I roll myself into a ball!
Simple, bright collages bring the reader into the pill bug’s world. Teach the traits of ideas and voice as students write a story from another bug’s point of view.
Comments(0) Welcome to the Nonfiction Monday Round-up!
Add your post to the round-up by clicking on the link below. Please write the title of your book or topic (in parentheses) after your name so Mr. Linky makes a hotlink for it. For example: Picture Book of the Day (Outside and Inside Mummies) I’ll post the links on this page as the day goes on. Thanks!
1. Picture Book of the Day (Outside and Inside Mummies)
2. Laura Salas (Notes from a Conference)
3. Lori Calabrese (Dizzy)
4. inneedofchocolate (Usborne Little Encyclopedia of the Human Body)
5. Abby the Librarian (Light Shining Through the Mist)
6. Becky Levine–(Pick Your Words Carefully)
7. I.N.K. (Kathleen Krull on New Books Bestselling and Otherwise)
8. Becky (How High Can We Climb?)
9. Wendie’s Wanderings (Take Me Out to the Ball Game)
10. Tricia (Animals, Animals)
11. Library & Literary Miscellany (A Long Way Gone)
12. Wendy [Postcards from Washington D.C]
13. We Love Children’s Books (Monarch and Milkweed)
14. Vijaya Bodach (The Monarch’s Progress: Poems with Wings
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Outside and Inside Mummies by Sandra Markle (Author) is filled with inside and outside photographs of mummies!
This is a mummy, the preserved body of a person who lived long ago. Unlike a skeleton, a mummy still has skin and sometimes muscles and internal organs.
Teach the traits of ideas and organization as students follow the directions in the back of the book and make their own mummy from an apple. Ask the students to create a life story for their mummy.
Comments(2) Welcome to the Nonfiction Monday Round-up!
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1. Picture Book of the Day (What the Sea Saw)
2. Mary Lee (Nonfiction Poetry)
3. Sarah (Grandma Elephant’s In Charge)
4. Archimedes Forgets (Amelia Peabody’s Egypt)
5. Bill (Tuttle’s Red Barn)
6. I.N.K. (Jennifer Armstrong on Reading Between the Lines)
7. The Well-Read Child (How Artists See Series)
8. Laura Salas (Lois Lowry: Giver of Stories and Memories)
9. Lori Calabrese Writes (The Journey that Saved Curious George)
10. Abby the Librarian (Tracking Trash)
11. Chicken Spaghetti (Pale Male: Citizen Hawk of NYC)
12. BookMoot (Sabertooth)
13. Becky (Invisible Allies)
14. Wild Rose Reader (Butterfly Bonanza)
15. cloudscome (Marian Anderson)
16. A Patchwork of Books (Cool Animals)
17. Fiona at Books and ‘Rocks (PB Bio - Rough, Tough Charley)
18. Jennie at Biblio File-(Child Soliders and Expensive Purses)
