June 10, 2019
A Teachers’ Guide on steroids, in the best way possible.
Woohoo! Check this out everyone. Candlewick Press sent along their hot-off-the-press Teachers' Guide for Merci Suárez Changes Gears. The former teacher inside me is going to gush here. It's fabulous, and that's because it's written by a super-charged educator and reading coach. The questions and activities across the curriculum are smart and get the kids talking, thinking, and working on everything from Ancient Egypt to the social dynamics of their school. So I'm sending a big applause to Kellee Moye, a middle-school reading coach and teacher from Orlando, Florida. Kellee is the coauthor of the blog Unleashing Readers, a member of the 2016–2018 ALAN Board of Directors, a member of NCTE, ALAN, and ALA, the chair of the 2014 Amelia Elizabeth Walden Book Award committee, and her school’s 2017–18 Teacher of the Year. Here it is as a pdf for you to download. Or you can follow the link at the top of the article. Either way, I think folks who'll be using the book in their classrooms next fall will find something useful. OK, next stop... Massachusetts!
