Calvin Gets the Last Word by Margo Sorenson
February 5 is World Read Aloud Day! Here’s a great new book to celebrate this national holiday and a FREE lesson plan to help launch a JOYful word-learning initiative. Learn how to collect new words while enjoying a battle between brothers. It’s sure to inspire a crop of new logophiles in your classroom.
In this book pairing, snuggle up and get cozy with Jan Brett’s new book and an old winter favorite.
Linda Szakmary has five decades of experience working as a classroom teacher, a district curriculum writer, a district facilitator of K-5 writing, and as a county K-8 literacy coach. She now works for Sullivan and Orange-Ulster BOCES as a content specialist. A poetry advocate and a lover of words and children’s literature, she has been a presenter at several state-wide conferences on vocabulary and writing. Currently, she is working with the staff developers of Mossflower to study intermediate vocabulary instruction within a reading workshop. Linda lives in Stone Ridge, NY where she enjoys gardening, yoga, reading, and rooting for the Yankees. You can often find her on a beach searching for sea glass.
