All students need digital citizenship skills to participate fully in their communities and make smart choices online and in life. Here are three ways to make digital citizenship part of how we teach, rather than a thing set apart.
Dav Pilkey is the best-selling author and illustrator of the wildly popular Captain Underpants and Dog Man graphic novel series, as well as many picture books, including Dog Breath and The Hallo-Wiener. He won a Caldecott Honor for his picture book The Paperboy. Pilkey has spoken out publicly about his own struggles growing up with ADHD and dyslexia, and how drawing, telling stories, and creating original comic books channeled his creativity and gave him confidence.
Launa Hall is a writer, traveler, and former primary school teacher with an MFA in creative writing and an M.Ed. in early childhood education. Launa has been traveling globally, visiting teachers and their classrooms, and she’s writing a book about how children are taught to read around the world.
Jill Lauren’s That’s Like Me! is a book about 15 students with disabilities who face challenges in school but express their creativity and talents through hobbies. In the foreword, excerpted here, children’s book illustrator Jerry Pinkney describes growing up with two personas: Jerry the gifted artist and Jerry the struggling reader.
Explore annotated writing samples from kids in pre-K through grade 3, and see next-step suggestions for instruction. You’ll also learn about writing milestones and different purposes of writing — along with ideas for how to make room for writing during the day.
Children with executive function problems have difficulty with planning, organizing and managing time and space, and weakness with “working memory.” Learn more about executive function, how it affects learning, and strategies to help children in school and at home.
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Bill Martin Jr’s Brown Bear, Brown Bear book is almost required reading for parents of young children. In video clips below from A Visit With Bill Martin Jr (1996), he talks about his “jazzy” writing. Bill Martin Jr also corresponded with Reading Rockets in an e-mail interview in which he answered questions about his writing career and famous “bear books” illustrated by Eric Carle.
