Put away the cellphone and take out the finger puppets!
OVER IN THE MEADOW by Olive A. Wadsworth and Ezra Jack Keats
Over in the Meadow is an old Appalachian counting rhyme that’s popular with young children.
Racing Contractions
ONE GREEN APPLE by Eve Bunting and Ted Lewin
The story gets its name from the events on a field trip to a farm where the class picks apples and makes cider. Every child picks a plump red apple, except for Farah.
JUST ME AND 6,000 RATS by Rick Walton and Mike and Carl Gordon
Cause and Effect Bingo
KNOCK AT A STAR: A Child’s Introduction to Poetry by X. J. Kennedy and Dorothy M. Kennedy
“Poetry many not be able to redeem the world, but it offers lasting satisfactions. It can sharpen the wits, fire the imagination, perhaps even leave the reader with a grain of wisdom. It can heighten the experience of being alive. This seems enough to ask of it.”
-X. J. and Dorothy M. Kennedy
Semantic Gradients with ROGET’S STUDENT THESAURUS (Scott Foresman, 1994)
XOOM CUBES (BAXBO)
Xoom Cubes are designed to be used in a variety of word building games for 2-8 players, aged 6 to 96.
SONIA SOTOMAYOR: a judge grows in the Bronx by Jonah Winter and Edel Rodriguez
It is evident that all along the way to the Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor studied extremely hard and continuously demanded more of herself.
Laura Hulbert 