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  • Want to make digital book clubs or digital guided reading groups happen? This suite of free tools will help you run virtual book clubs. Tips, ideas and strategies for teachers and students in elementary to have digital book clubs. Ideas for Kindergarten, first, second, third, fourth or fifth grade kids. Distance learning book clubs or for any time if you want to go digital. Plus a free book club resource to get you started!
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Looking for the best Underground Railroad books for kids? These Underground Railroad children's books for elementary students are engaging for primary and upper elementary kids. Picture books and middle grade novels about the Underground Railroad with lesson plans and activities linked. Books both fiction and nonfiction about Harriet Tubman, surviving the Underground Railroad, Jewish immigrants and more for your kindergarten, first, second, third, fourth or fifth grade students. Your students will delight in these classic and brand new books!

Looking for the best Underground Railroad books for kids? These Underground Railroad children’s books for elementary students are engaging for primary and upper elementary kids. Picture books and middle grade novels about the Underground Railroad with lesson plans and activities linked. Books both fiction and nonfiction about Harriet Tubman, surviving the Underground Railroad, Jewish immigrants and more for your kindergarten,… Read More

We Are Here by Tami Charles

A worthy identity affirming follow-up from the author/illustrator team of Tami Charles and Bryan Collier! We Are Here Book Review The Text A free verse explosion that uses rhythm and language to remind Black and brown children that they not only exist, they’re at the very heart and soul of the country. When faced with a long history of slings… Read More

Looking for the best children’s books about the Holocaust? These Holocaust children’s books for elementary students are engaging for primary and upper elementary kids. Picture books and middle grade novels about the Holocaust with lesson plans and activities linked. Books both fiction and nonfiction about concentration camps, surviving the Holocaust, Jewish immigrants and more for your kindergarten, first, second, third,… Read More

Looking for the best children's books to teach sequencing to read with your kids? Here are some great picture books to teach sequence in books through read alouds or for students to read. Ideas for elementary school teachers looking for children's books with simple sequences through more complex sequencing including lesson plans and activities! Great for Kindergarten, first, second, third, fourth or fifth grade.

Looking for the best picture books to teach sequencing to read with your kids? Here are some great picture books to teach sequence in books through read alouds or for students to read. Ideas for elementary school teachers looking for children’s books with simple sequences through more complex sequencing including lesson plans and activities! Great for Kindergarten, first, second, third,… Read More

16 Best Underground Railroad Books For Kids

16 Best Underground Railroad Books For Kids

February 8, 2023

Looking for the best Underground Railroad books for kids? These Underground Railroad children’s books for elementary students are engaging for primary and upper elementary kids. Picture books and middle grade novels about the Underground Railroad with lesson plans and activities linked. Books both fiction and nonfiction about Harriet Tubman, surviving the Underground Railroad, Jewish immigrants and more for your kindergarten,… Read More

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We Are Here by Tami Charles Book Review

We Are Here by Tami Charles Book Review

February 5, 2023

A worthy identity affirming follow-up from the author/illustrator team of Tami Charles and Bryan Collier! We Are Here Book Review The Text A free verse explosion that uses rhythm and language to remind Black and brown children that they not only exist, they’re at the very heart and soul of the country. When faced with a long history of slings… Read More

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25 New and Noteworthy Children’s Books About the Holocaust

25 New and Noteworthy Children’s Books About the Holocaust

February 1, 2023

Looking for the best children’s books about the Holocaust? These Holocaust children’s books for elementary students are engaging for primary and upper elementary kids. Picture books and middle grade novels about the Holocaust with lesson plans and activities linked. Books both fiction and nonfiction about concentration camps, surviving the Holocaust, Jewish immigrants and more for your kindergarten, first, second, third,… Read More

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20 New and Noteworthy Picture Books to Teach Sequencing

20 New and Noteworthy Picture Books to Teach Sequencing

January 29, 2023

Looking for the best picture books to teach sequencing to read with your kids? Here are some great picture books to teach sequence in books through read alouds or for students to read. Ideas for elementary school teachers looking for children’s books with simple sequences through more complex sequencing including lesson plans and activities! Great for Kindergarten, first, second, third,… Read More

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22 New and Noteworthy Muslim Children’s Books

22 New and Noteworthy Muslim Children’s Books

January 25, 2023

Looking for the best Muslim children’s books? These books that celebrate Muslim culture for elementary students are engaging for primary and upper elementary kids. Books with lesson plans and activities linked. Picture books with Muslim characters both fiction and nonfiction from various moments throughout history like the first university, immigrants and more for your kindergarten, first, second, third, fourth or… Read More

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30 New and Noteworthy Children’s Books About Protecting the Planet

30 New and Noteworthy Children’s Books About Protecting the Planet

January 22, 2023

Looking for the best children’s books about protecting the planet to read with your kids? Here are some great picture books about conservation for classroom read alouds or for students to read. Children’s books about nature including animals, plants, conservation, and more. Ideas for elementary school teachers looking for children’s books with nature and the environment as a central theme… Read More

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