Happy August! Did you know that August 9th is International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. It recognizes and celebrates the rich cultural heritage and contributions of indigenous peoples worldwide. diversebooks.org/programs/heart… embracerace.org/resources/choo… …ansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/p/about.html

Mary Ehrenworth has been sharing authentic ways to center vocabulary instruction, like analyzing tone and point of view by studying word choice/vocabulary,  growing word walls, morphology walls, & etymology walls and creating semantic maps.

It’s James Baldwin’s Birthday - August 2nd! “One cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one’s own.” — James Baldwin npr.org/2024/08/02/nx-…

Remembering all who joined us in Mumbai for our Writing Institute - @cgcmumbai and Dalbir Kaur with @oneuplibrary. Looking forward to future institutes in India! #tcadvancingliteracy #columbiauniversity #writinginstruction #internationalteaching

Who are you reading? Whose voices are present? Whose voices are missing? halaalyan.com Lamya H uché blackstock, md Eduardo Briceño xochitlgonzalez.com

Our First Read Aloud of the School Year youtu.be/0iZGLTAQBdI

Launching our literacy institute to dive into meaningful curriculum updates with fabulous colleagues! Natalie Louis TC Advancing Literacy Dr. Julie Hackett LPS Literacy K-5

Read Gale Galligan Scholastic FRESH START (1/7/25), and this memoir-ISH list got out of hand! Alyssa Bermudez - Big Apple Diaries! Yehudi Mercado Kathy MacLeod Rex Ogle Ray Xu @studiojkk Shannon Hale Jennifer Holm STEPH RODRIGUEZ Charise Harper Dan Santat Jonathan Todd Gene Luen Yang tyler page // tylerpage.bsky.social

Kirkus us excited for LEFTY written by The Pigeon with art by me and published by Union Square & Co. In stores DECEMBER 3 👍

One week from today, my picture book about my mother's childhood in Trinidad de Cuba will be released! John Parra @SimonKids S&S EducationLibrary #EloisasMusicalWindow #childrensbooks #poetry #Cuba #music #Librosenespañol Diverse Verse

Happy book birthday to Faith Pray's The Day We Got Lost!

More stories like this, please. ♥️ In a small town in Texas, a school librarian turned mayor leads the charge to build the town's very first library. “It’s a dream come true for all of us.” myrgv.com/local-news/202…

What is background knowledge and how do we build it? Background knowledge is an essential element to reading comprehension. What we know impacts what we understand. We can increase understanding by building background knowledge through the use of multimedia, a wide range of

Digging into children’s literature and making glorious plans! Natalie Louis TC Advancing Literacy Dr. Julie Hackett LPS Literacy K-5

We have an UPDATE to our June story about Philadelphia librarians. (Spoiler: It's good news!) ow.ly/2P0A50T13QN

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See you soon, #NationalBookFestival! We’re excited to announce that WNDB will be attending this year’s Library of Congress National Book Festival! You can find WNDB located at Table 1413 in the Story District. Doors for the Story District open at 8:30 AM on Saturday morning!

Delighted to see THE KIDS IN MRS. Z'S CLASS: ROHAN MURTHY HAS A PLAN by 📚🧁🔅 Rajani LaRocca 💗⚾️🧬 featured in this great Book Riot roundup of books about kids starting their own businesses! bookriot.com/kids-books-abo…

Today’s book purchase in NYC: