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Are Trees Alive?: Guide for Educators

Are Trees Alive? printable Guide for Educators provides suggestions for activating student thinking...

Are Trees Alive?: Guide for Families

Are Trees Alive? printable Guide for Families provides hands-on activities and ideas for extension...

Are Trees Alive?: Extension Activities for Educators

Are Trees Alive? printable Extension Activities for Educators provides interdisciplinary, extension...

Are Trees Alive?: Vocabulary Scaffold

Are Trees Alive? printable Vocabulary Scaffold pairs 7 challenge words from the book with short...

Way to Grow! Gardening: Composting: Frayer Model

Use this graphic organizer to deepen vocabulary knowledge.

Way to Grow! Gardening: Composting: Memory Match

After reading Way to Grow! Gardening: Composting, use this Memory Matching puzzle to help students...

Are Trees Alive?: Frayer Model

Use this graphic organizer to deepen vocabulary knowledge.

Are Trees Alive?: Memory Match

After reading Are Trees Alive?, use this Memory Matching puzzle to help students build familiarity...

Are Trees Alive?: Word Search

After reading Hanukkah in Are Trees Alive? by Debbie S. Miller use this printable and interactive...

Are Trees Alive?: Criss Cross

This printable and interactive crisscross puzzle aligns with Are Trees Alive? by Debbie S. Miller.

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Are Trees Alive?

Written by Debbie S. Miller and Illustrated by Stacey Schuett

"Are trees alive? How do they breathe? They don't have noses."

And so begins a conversation between...

Pre-K - 3rd
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Discovery of Dragons

Written by Lindsay Galvin

It's 1835. Cabin boy Simon Covington is on the voyage of a lifetime to the Galapagos Islands with...

3rd - 7th
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A Dinosaur Named Ruth: How Ruth Mason Discovered Fossils in Her Own Backyard

Written by Julia Lyon and Illustrated by Alexandra Bye
Pre-K - 3rd

Maddi's Fridge (La nevera de Maddi): Read Aloud by Isabella Gomez

Actress Isabella Gomez reads La nevera de Maddi, the Spanish version of Maddi's Fridge by Lois...

Maddi's Fridge: Read Aloud by Jennifer Garner

Actress Jennifer Garner reads Maddi's Fridge by Lois Brandt. With humor and warmth, this children’s...

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Maddi's Fridge

Written by Lois Brandt and Illustrated by Vin Vogel

With humor and warmth, this children’s picture book raises awareness about poverty and hunger

Best...

K - 4th

What's Your Problem? Graphic Organizer

Use this graphic organizer to determine the problem(s) in the story by looking closely at the story elements (setting, theme, characters).

The Influences on a Character Graphic Organizer

Use this graphic organizer to help students consider all of the influences on one of the main characters.
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Beautiful Oops!

Written and Illustrated by Barry Saltzberg

A spill. A smear. A smudge. A tear. When you think you have made a mistake, think of it as an...

Pre-K - 3rd
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Reach for the Stars

Written by Emily Calandrelli and Illustrated by Honee Jang

From the moment we are born, we reach out. We reach out for our loved ones, for new knowledge and...

Pre-K - 3rd

Grizzly 399: Memory Match

After reading Grizzly 399, use this Memory Matching puzzle to help students build familiarity with...

Grizzly 399: Word Search

After reading Grizzly 399 by Sylvia M. Medina & Thomas D. Mangelsen (photographer), use this...

Grizzly 399: Criss Cross

This printable and interactive crisscross puzzle aligns with Grizzly 399 by Sylvia M. Medina &...
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Machu Picchu: The Lost Civilization

Written by Christina Leaf

The city in the clouds, Machu Picchu, has an air of mystery surrounding it. Historians know the site...

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