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Teacher feedback: Thank you so much for once again joining us at Gideon Welles School in Glastonbury, CT, for World Read Aloud Day! We are so grateful for the time you took from your busy schedule to meet with us. Our students devour your books and have been writing historical fiction themselves. Your presentation was so supportive of what the English teachers are teaching right now-it was perfect timing!
This is a pic from my WRAD presentation with Pioneer MS in Plymouth MI. I loved the opportunity to read to the students as they were having lunch. Good questions and lots of connections.
I did ten virtual WRAD sessions today, plus the one on Monday night with Tashkent International School. Fantastic students, fantastic questions. Great organizing by educators! The top pic is from Highland MS, Libertyville IL. The bottom is from Allendale MS, MI. The bottom pic shows two books that I think students will enjoy reading. Sheryl Azzam’s Red Flags and Butterflies, and Chrystyna K. Lucyk-Berger’s Swimming With Spies.
Am getting over a head cold but still managed to do seven mini presentations today without losing my voice!
On World Read Aloud Day (WRAD) I’m donating 12 back to back 15 minute readings / quick chats with 12 schools. Many thanks to Kate Messner who helps distribute a listing of authors willing to volunteer their time on WRAD so that students who might otherwise never hear an author read, get to do so! My schedule filled up within a day or so of being posted. The final slot was an add-on because two Manitoba students (Zander and Chaz) wanted to interview me, so I offered them this instead. Their whole class is joining in.
10:15-10:28: Sterling Grade School
10:30 – 10:43: Colchester Middle School
10:45-10:58am: Tucker Creek Middle School, NC
11am to 11:13am: Batesburg-Leesville Middle School NC
11:15-11:28am: 6th grade Mamaroneck UFSD
11:30 – 11:43: Seneca East Local Schools, Attica Ohio
11:45 – 11: 58: S. C. Lee Junior High ccisd.com
12-12:13: grades 5/6 Gideon Welles School, Glastonbury, CT
12:15 – 12:28: 6th grade, Polly Ryon Middle School in Rosenberg, Texas
12:30 (9:30 pacific) – 12:43: 8th grade, Paakuma’ San Bernardino City, California
12:45 (9:45 pacific) – 12:58: Orland California, CK Price MS
1pm – 1:15: 8th grade, Melita School, Manitoba
Eleven schools on WRAD23. The 2 in Texas were snowed out (stay safe and warm my friends) and one school was late, but by luck that coincided with a snowed out school, so all good. In addition to Winterkill I talked about Sylvia McNicoll’s What the Dog Knows and Adrian Lysenko’ s Five Stalks of Grain, and then showed the best nonfiction written about the Holodomor, Anne Applebalm’s Red Famine.
Educator feedback:
“Thank you for reading aloud to my fifth and sixth graders today. It was fabulous. We now have a waiting list for Making Bombs for Hitler and for Winterkill.“
“Thank you so much for Zooming with us this morning. The excerpt you read was powerful and I anticipate Winterkill being checked out for the foreseeable future! Thank you for shining a light on this lesser known piece of history.”
“We enjoyed hearing you read from Winterkill and learning so much about your writing process.”
Thanks again for visiting with us! Every single one of your books that I have are checked out to students now! Success!
A winter storm didn’t stop these students from Fishers Indiana from participating in World Read-Aloud Day! I love how intently they’re listening as I read the beginning of Traitors Among Us.
It was a fun day celebrating World Read Aloud Day with seven schools and multiple classes within those schools. Many thanks to librarians and educators who scrambled amidst family emergencies, covid quarantines, and snow storms to still make the sessions happen. Mostly, I read the opening pages of my newest novel, Traitors Among Us, but Sara Lema of Allendale Michigan asked if I could read Chapter 16, The Blue Room, because she had been reading the book aloud to her class and that’s where they were! It was such fun for me to read in the middle of my book like that!Here’s a pic from Knowlton School in NJ and Weiner Elementary in AZ.
In honor of World Read Aloud Day, a reading!