Tag: teaching ideas
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Revision Examples to Use in the Classroom
Teachers! Download PDF pages showing my revision process to use in your classroom.
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Podcast about The Riot Brothers
Listen to Mary Amato sing one of the songs from her Riot Brother series and talk about how she writes her Riot Brother books.
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Bookmarks
Bookmarks for you to download. Print on cardstock, cut, and share. Please Write in This Book bookmark The Naked Mole-Rat Letters bookmark
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Helping Young Writers at the Start
When it comes to writing, some kids have a hard time getting started. In this article (first published in the Arizona Reading Association Journal), you can read my suggestions. Helping Young Writers at the Start
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How to Make a Spore Print
In Invisible Lines, Trevor Musgrove makes a spore print. If you’d like to try it, read on. Mushrooms release spores, which are tiny, round, reproductive bodies, which you can literally “capture” in a print. Take a mushroom and gently remove the stem—you don’t want to damage the mushroom, but you do want to make sure…
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Going on a Mushroom Foray
Hidden Superfood: Some people believe that mushrooms have little nutritional value. Wrong. Mushrooms are good for you. They contain protein, fiber, essential amino acids, thiamine, riboflavin, niacin, biotin, ascorbic acid and Vitamin D. Mushrooms produce strong antioxidants, antibiotics, and antiviral compounds. Scientists are studying their medicinal compounds to cure cancers and small pox, to treat…
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Skits from The Riot Brothers books
Kids at Barrington Elementary School in Ohio acted out scenes from the Riot Brother books and posted them as a slide-show on their school website. What a great way to encourage reading, improvisation, and playwriting! Students can improvise or write short plays, based on scenes from their favorite books, and act them out.
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Slobber Trivia Game (From Books III and IV of The Riot Bros)
Slobber Trivia Game Questions (From Stinky and Successful and Take the Mummy and Run) In which Riot Brother book does Slobber, the pet rat, first appear? One of the chapters in the third book is called “Slobber and Frank.” Who is Frank? On April Fools Day, where does Orville first hide Slobber? In the same…
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Rats Reading The Riot Brothers Video
Slobber the Rat is a character in Stinky and Successful: The Riot Brothers Return and in Take the Mummy and Run: The Riot Brothers are on a Roll. I had fun making these rats reading miniature copies of my books as a gift for my publisher, Holiday House.