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Middle Grade Genres: Mystery
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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Storytime Theme: Balloons
As with many of my storytime lesson plans this year, I’m updating a ten year old plan to give you some additional options for read alouds. Remember, back list titles are still amazing options (as long as you can still find them!), so don’t ignore those older titles, they may…
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Storytime Theme: Rectangles
Sometimes there’s a storytime theme that I’m shocked I haven’t done in 10+ years of this blog… rectangles is one of them! And then when I started looking for books, I realized there aren’t as many rectangles as there are square, circle, and triangle books. So, I pulled together as…
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Chapter Book Genres: Fantasy
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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Storytime Theme: What Animals Eat
I love when a storytime theme can be used in so many different ways! This theme could easily focus on silly stories about what animals eat – like dragons and tacos, or caterpillars and just about everything, and can easily be focused on nonfiction books about food chains and food…
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Storytime Theme: Crocs & Gators
This is a fun storytime to put together and while I don’t necessarily know all the differences between crocodiles and alligators, sharing a book that compares the two, like the Nat Geo Kids book Alligators & Crocodiles, is a great way to learn and share some facts! As I’m always…
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Chapter Book Genres: Science 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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Storytime Theme: Small, But Mighty
I decided to focus on bugs for this small, but mighty storytime theme! There are so many little kids afraid of bugs and I’d love to share all the great ways that bugs help the environment and how they are more scared of humans, than we should be of them…
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Storytime Theme: Napping
A quick update to an ever popular storytime – napping! I’ve got a very old lesson plan (with great book suggestions) from ten years ago and a quick book list from five years ago, but I thought I’d update the lesson plan to include music and crafts too. Napping is…
