Welcome to Day 2!
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“Keep Calm and Teach On” T-Shirt: Jennifer Arquette – Please email me your mailing address.
Clip Art Prize #1: Maria Call
Intermediate Winner’s Choice Pack: Allee Ellen
Primary ELA Pack: Jennifer Steinacher
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I love teaching "Three Skeleton Key" around Halloween.
Yes! Did you see this article where cannibal rats really DID take over a ship?
http://www.newsmax.com/TheWire/cannibal-rats-ghost-cruise/2014/01/24/id/548788
🙂 Erin
"The Lorax" has always been one of my favorites.
I love The Paberbag Princess by Robert Munsch : )
I love Alligator Baby by Robert Munsch!
I love to read anything written by Kevin Henkes. His books have so many life lessons that my students can easily relate to!
Kristen
A+ Classroom Creations
I also loved to read and teach Sarah, Plain and Tall along with the two sequel books.
Rebbecca
I love doing different versions of books so my students can point out how they are alike and different. Great giveaways!
kellybrown28021@gmail.com
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes 🙂
I love using Mo Williams' and Sara Varon's works.
"All Summer in a Day" I LOVE teaching figurative language (even before I discovered your awesome figurative language units) and this story is FULL of figurative language!!!
I love "The Lady Who Wasn't Afraid of Anything" because the ending always surprises the kids! abramsky@sbcglobal.net
I LOVE teaching "Lamb to the Slaughter" by Roald Dahl. I love teaching irony with this lesson, and my kids just EAT it up! To finish the unit, we watch the episode from The Twilight Zone, and it is the perfect wrap up!
http://www.confessionsofanedugator.blogspot.com
Oh, I do the SAME thing! The Landlady is also a popular favorite! 🙂 Erin
I love Oh the places You'll Go by Dr. Seuss and Math Curse by Jon Scieszka and illustrated by Lane Smith. I use Math Curse to introduce fractions and the kids love it. It takes a bit of the stress and anxiety away that many of my students feel with fractions.
I love teaching Seventh Grade by Gary Soto at the start of the school year. It's a great little story about the trials and tribulations of Middle School and a great introduction to well, Seventh Grade. I use this as a reading assessment to kind of gauge where my students are. We do a couple of short little activities with the story and of course answer reading comprehension questions.
Karie
anchoredinthemiddle.blogspot.com
Oh, la la, me le grandma!
(or something like that, haha!)
🙂 Erin
I've never used a short story…but now I have some examples to choose from!
I love One and Only at the end of the year for my graduating students.
Sidney
"The Tell-Tale Heart" or anything by Edgar Allan Poe always makes me happy!
I love to teach The Captive because it's fantastic for making predictions and has a surprise ending. I wish I knew the author, but it's one of those stories that was handed down to me when I started teaching. I haven't been able to find it online.
Grandfather Tang's Story
I use so many picture books to introduce topics from every subject. This year I found One Cool Friend by Tony Buzzeo as a way to introduce quotation marks. Conversation is written in speech bubbles!
Any of the Sir Cumference books!
I love any of Patricia Polacco's books.
Bad Day at Riverbend by Van Allsburg is one of my favorites. I use it during our inferencing unit and read it without showing my students the pictures. Such fun!
I always enjoy using All Summer in a Day. It is a story that works well for 5th graders, yet leaves enough open to interpretation and discussion.
Happy Birthday, Erin! I celebrated mine on Wednesday! This is my 1st year in 3rd grade, so I'm still learning what works for me, but I did enjoy doing a compare and contrast unit over The Gingerbread Man in December. We used several different texts!
Lindsey
The Journey of a Beginning Teacher
I think my favorite short lesson to teach is probably The Greedy Triangle! It's a great little lesson to help get across the geometry topic of triangles! Thank you for the chance!
Sara
Miss V's Busy Bees
ventrellasara@gmail.com
I am one of your biggest fans! Love the seller packs! Thanks!
Oops… I was supposed to write about a storybook! I love anything by Janell Cannon!
What a fantastic giveaway you are running!!!!!!!!!!!
My favorite short story to teach would have to be "The Monkey's Paw." This year is the first time in more than twenty-five years that I have the privilege of teaching gr. 8 English again. Even though this story was not in our text, I hauled it out for Halloween. The kiddos LOVED it! They keep referencing it every time we learn a new literary skill!
Congratulations on your milestones and continued success with your blog and products!
Angela
Thanks for the opportunity for some great prizes. My favorite story to teach is The True Story of the Three Little Pigs. It never seems to get old. 🙂
Thank you for this fun week! I love teaching Testing Miss Malarky during this time of year. It is a great testing story. A fun way to kick off testing week!
I love Stuart Murphy's Math books! They are all creative and apply to the concepts that my students are learning!
Thanks for hosting such a great giveaway!
I love Laura Numeroff's books. It's so hard to choose just one book when you have so many that you use for different things. Congratulations on the blog!
I love teaching Thank you m'am by Langston Hughes.
Thanks for the great products and the great giveaway week! I like to use Sir Cumference books! Also, thanks for all the other great ideas for books from the comments!
I love teaching Joe Bright and the Seven Genre Dudes!!!
Thank you and Happy Birthday!!!
Happy Birthday. I teach Elementary students so I love to teach authors like Kevin Henkes, Patricia Polacco, and Robert Munch. Thanks for a great giveaway.
I love to teach The Gift of the Magi to my 8th Graders! (and I LOVED your Christmas themed pack this year which featured this story!)
I'm a primary special ed teacher. I love teaching Pete the Cat books.
I love reading historical fiction. Pink and Say by Patricia Polacco is one of my very favorites (such an emotional book).
I love using different versions of fairy tales to teach point of view, character, setting, and plot.
I really enjoy the Aesop's Fables because these can be used for anything from main idea to theme.
This is my first year as an 8th grade ELA teacher and the story that I enjoyed teaching the most was "Lamb to the Slaughter." My students really enjoyed the dark story and so did I.
Always start off the year with Thank You, Mr. Faulker…Patricia Pollacco. 🙂
There are so many short stories to choose from – I have always enjoyed "Harrison Burgeron" by Vonnegut (I enjoy dystopic stories) but love "Gift of the Magi" at Christmas. And your materials for this story were perfect for my class! Thanks for a great giveaway!
What a fun giveaway, Erin! Thanks for letting me be a part of it 🙂
My favorite short story to teach is King Bidgood's in the Bathtub! 🙂
~Jessica
Joy in the Journey
Thank you for sharing your ideas and work. I really appreciated it.
Star of Fear, Star of Hope…it always makes me cry when I read it.
I love teaching The King of Mazy May by Jack London. I love all the conflict and the kids really find the story fun.
Thank you for all the giveaways this week! 🙂
I love reading fairy tales…but really enjoy most of the short stories provided in the Jr. great book anthologies.
Love all of your wonderful resources!
There are so many wonderful short stories for 8th graders. I enjoy teaching "The Tell-Tale Heart" the most though.
Seventh Grade – especially since I teach 7th grade!
I LOVE teaching fairy tales….how do I pick????? Cinderella is So Annoying is a great one!
I love using The Dot! Or any of the Peter Reynolds books, really. His work is amazing!!
Do I really have to choose just one book that I love to teach? I love anything by Jan Brett or Patricia Polacco!
Andrea
Reading Toward the Stars
We read from a series called Twisters which contains stories that have a twist at the end. Thanks!
I'm a fan of "Monkey's Paw" as well, especially in October. also like using "Charles" for making predictions/inferences.
Love Aesop's Fables! THX!
I love teaching The Lorax!
Love to read Aesop's Fables! Thx!
My students like to hear stories from Greek Mythology. They love to act out parts as we read.
Pete the Cat gets my vote! Thanks for the giveaway. Happy!
My students enjoy listening to all types of read alouds. We are loving The One and Only Ivan right now. 🙂
The giver
I'm so happy that I stumbled onto your blog…it's fantastic!
I love teaching "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" and "Gift of the Magi" to my middle schoolers. We're also going to give "Harrison Bergeron" a try this year.
Anything by Mo Willems…my 1st graders love him!
Veronica
Teaching with Giggles