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Storytime Theme: Sharing
Sharing is a concept that every child should learn at an early age, but often parents and caregivers don’t fully understand the concept of sharing and how it’s understood by a child’s brain. Did you know that the sharing concept isn’t really fully grasped until kids are between the ages…
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Young Adult Genres: Mysteries
New month, new book list series! This month I’m diving into young adult titles! Over the past few months, I’ve shared picture books, chapter books, and middle grade stories, and I don’t want to leave out the teenagers, so here we go! Young adult novels are geared toward kids from…
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Middle Grade Genres: Realistic Fiction
New month, new book list series! This month we’re moving on to middle grade genres! I’ve already shared picture book genres and chapter book genres, so let’s dive into middle grade. Middle grade books is a term used in the book industry to describe titles that are written for an…
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Chapter Book Genres: Realistic Fiction
So, last month I focused on highlighting genres for our picture book readers, this month I’ll be focusing on newly independent readers and offering up some genre suggestions in the chapter book arena. Let’s start with what is a chapter book. While the term gets thrown around for any book…
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Look & Find Books for Kids
I remember as a kid pouring over our tattered copy of Where’s Waldo? It was so fun looking for Waldo, his friends, and all the things he lost among the pages. As I was working on this post, I found out that Where’s Waldo? is a British import that’s actually…
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20 Realistic Fiction Early Chapter Books
With twenty options for readers, this list of realistic fiction early chapter books is sure to have a little something for everyone. A few years ago, it would have been a lot more difficult to find diverse titles for this level of reader. But, now I’m happy to let you…
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15 Middle Grade Books About Friendship
You couldn’t pay me enough to go back in time to middle school. I just remember feeling so awkward all the time! I was by no means a popular kid, but I had a small friend group that I spent time with in class and on the weekends. Today, I…
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Connect with Literacious
With a beautiful new format to my blog, I want to make sure readers know how to connect with Literacious, because there are a lot of ways to do so! I’ve met some amazing people in my personal learning network that I would never have known if not for my…
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#blogbookaday: Truck, Truck, Goose!
Summary: “Truck…truck…truck… Will Goose ever get to have his picnic? Goose is all packed for a picnic. Now all he has to do is cross the little road in front of his cottage. With bold and bright illustrations from Zoe Waring and familiar, sparse text from Tammi Sauer, Truck, Truck, Goose is perfect…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Frequently Used Words To Describe Middle Grade Titles
This is a little something different, rather than rattling off a list of books, I spent some time really thinking about the words used in middle grade fiction and here are ten that are (I believe) fairly commmon: Family Friends Overcome Invisible School Diverse Coming-of-Age Hope Belonging Identity Middle grade…
