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Which strategies really support interactive learning?

How can I help build my students' foundational reading skills?

Where can I find engaging books with diverse perspectives?

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Kekla Magoon: Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party’s Promise to the People Part II

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Get inspired by middle grade and young adult stories, characters, and journeys!

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Looking to add to your MG/YA bookshelf? Here’s what we’re reading this month. Click on the book cover to learn more. Happy reading!

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We hope you will read along with us and consider tweaks you can make in your instructional practice. Click on the book cover to learn more.

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In which of the following books does a father unexpectedly encounter aliens, pirates, and time-traveling dinosaurs in an attempt to run a quick errand for his children?

When two children sit down to breakfast and realized there’s no milk, their father runs out to the corner market to buy more. A seemingly benign task that should take no more than a few minutes gets unexpectedly interrupted when the father is abducted by aliens (WHAT?!?). In an attempt to escape his slimy and blobby captors, the father finds himself transported throughout time and space with the unlikeliest cast of characters. Through all of his adventures, fortunately, he’s able to hold on to the milk for his children’s cereal in Fortunately the Milk.

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Mama says I always liked words; that I was talking before I could walk, and reading and writing before I even got to kindergarten. For some reason, I like poems ... I like making words fit together like puzzle pieces, and coming up with the perfect rhyme.

excerpt from Isaiah Dunn Is My Heroby Kelly J. Baptist

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Which strategies really support interactive learning?

How can I help build my students' foundational reading skills?

Where can I find engaging books with diverse perspectives?

Do Middle and High School Students Need Fluency Instruction and What Counts as Instruction?

Black Characters and Social/Cultural Themes

Maria Davis-Pierre

Kekla Magoon: Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party’s Promise to the People Part II

Up With AdLit

Book Nook

Read and Tweak

AdLit News Headlines

Many Teens Lack Basic Reading Skills. These Teachers Are Trying to Change That (opens in a new window)

The Benefits of Nature Journaling in English Class (opens in a new window)

Helping students flourish, not just achieve: An interview with Mike Goldstein (opens in a new window)

What Students Are Saying About the Decline in High School Reading Skills (opens in a new window)

New teen thriller ‘Sisters in the Wind’ finds drama in hidden identities (opens in a new window)

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