Tools for Teachers from Children's Author Susan Taylor Brown

"You teach best what you most need to learn."
Richard Bach

TOOLS

FOR TEACHERS

One of the best tools for teachers, in my opinion, is connecting them with authors of children's books so they can work together on a project. Some teachers, schools, and authors have come up with some really great ways to do just that. Read here to get some ideas of how you can connect students with authors and their books. If you come up with some good ideas of your own, please let me know and I will be happy to write about it here (giving you full credit of course) and perhaps you will inspired other teachers.

The Children's Art and Writing at Aztec Ruins is a great way to combine history with writing and literature.

Want to teach imaginative writing? Check out WriteNet.org from the Teacher and Writers Collaborative.

The National Writing Project has writing project sites in all 50 states plus D.C., Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

If you like booklists, I suggest you check out the Children's Picture Book Database at Miami University for a database searchable by theme.

Also Cynthia Leitich Smith Children's Literature Resources is an excellant guide to Native American and multi-cultural books. The Children's Booklists on the Web has a HUGE guide to theme-related bibliographies.

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