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1. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   6 – 12  |  Podcast Episode
   A Conversation with Laurie Halse Anderson
   In this episode, Laurie Halse Anderson talks about her newest book, Wintergirls.
2. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   6 – 12  |  Podcast Episode
   A Conversation with Walter Dean Myers
   If there is anyone in the world of children's and young adult literature who could be described as a living legend, it's Walter Dean Myers. Tune in to hear how his own experiences as a reader have shaped his approach to storytelling, what he seeks to offer young people through his writing, and the thinking behind a select handful of his novels – books that incorporate concepts as varied as magical realism, the social contract, and oral histories with our nation's war veterans.
3. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   6 – 12  |  Activity & Project
   Afterschool and Summer Reading with LGBTQ Content
   Motivate your middle school reader with books that include LGBTQ characters.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   4 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Analyzing How Narrative Structure Generates Empathy in Wonder
   This lesson builds students' understanding of empathy by defining key terms and comparing responses to characters when they are introduced by someone else, and then when they narrate the story themselves.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   A Portrait of Our World: Making Connections and Developing Comprehension
   Students engage in carousel walks, character analyses, global explorations, and genre studies while using valuable language arts strategies to build higher-level comprehension skills.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 10  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Blending the Past with Today's Technology: Using Prezi to Prepare for Historical Fiction
   To prepare for literature circles featuring historical novels, students research the decades of the 1930s to the 1990s and share their information using Prezi, a web application for creating multimedia presentations.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   4 – 7  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Boars and Baseball: Making Connections
   In this lesson, students will make text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections after reading In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson. After sharing and discussing connections, students choose and plan a project that makes a personal connection to the text.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Breaking Barriers, Building Bridges: Critical Discussion of Social Issues
   Through a series of picture book read-alouds, students engage in critical discussion of complex issues of race, class, and gender.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   2 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Captioning the Civil Rights Movement: Reading the Images, Writing the Words
   Teachers guide students to carefully view images from the Civil Rights Movement and write captions that accurately describe the images and/or their probable purposes.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  April 19
    Celebrate National Library Week!
    Students learn more about libraries as part of National Library Week.

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