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Themed Booklists
School Shootings: Trying to Understand the Unthinkable
Helping readers find empathy, sympathy, and understanding are lofty goals for YA authors who delve into the tragedy of school shootings. Told from multiple perspectives, this collection brings together many voices helping young adults process the unthinkable.
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About Teaching Reading
How One School District Transformed Its Community
Accelerated Learning
Taking Stock: Data-Driven Acceleration
Themed Booklists
Latinx Pride
In this booklist, you’ll find a range of titles — young adult novels by award-winning Hispanic-American authors, bilingual poetry, biography, memoir — celebrating Latino culture and examining the immigrant experience.
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Planet Word Museum
AdLit Happenings: If You Are In DC This Week
Journey into the reading brain with literacy scholar Maryanne Wolf and Planet Word Journalist-in-Residence Emily Hanford! Discover the ways screen reading is impacting our perception of beauty, the development of empathy, and the importance of critical thinking in the digital age.
Book Nook
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!
Read and Tweak
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.
How AdLit Are You?
Which of the following novels is rooted Greek Mythology?
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 Hero by Kelly J. Baptist
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