Schoharie presentation NYSRA Charlotte Award Nominated Books + Technology=Excited Readers
On Tuesday, November 3, I will be speaking at the Schoharie County Reading Council meeting about ways to connect new technologies and the NYSRA Charlotte Award nominated books (for more information check the NYSRA calendar or see the PPT slides above). Here are some of the [...]
Entries from October 2009
October 29, 2009
Schoharie County Reading Council
October 27, 2009
Amy Bull Crist Reading Council Presentation
On Tuesday, October 27, 4:15-6 at the Ramapo Catskill Library System building , we’ll be talking about the NYSRA Charlotte award. I’ve attached the notes from our presentation.
Liz
Amy Bullcrist Presentation final version
October 26, 2009
N.D. Wilson interview
Thank you to Mrs. Wilcox’s fifth graders for sending these questions to N.D. Wilson, the author of the NYSRA Charlotte Award nominated book for intermediate grade readiers, Leepike Ridge. Mr. Wilson graciously and wittily responded to their request for information.
Are you going to write a sequel?
Nopedy-nope. At least, I don’t think so. But Leepike Ridge [...]
October 22, 2009
Ellen Senisi interview
Thank you to Ellen B. Senisi, the photographer for the NYSRA Charlotte Award nominated book, Steel Drumming at the Apollo (Marx & Senisi, 2007), for answering questions from Ms. Fridholm’s intermediate grade students.
How do you get a good idea AND what inspired you to write this book?
I always keep my eyes open for new [...]
October 18, 2009
Elicia Castaldi & Middle School Is Worse Than Meatloaf
We asked readers in 5th and 7th grade to share questions with us about the NYSRA Charlotte Award nominated book Middle School Is Worse Than Meatloaf (Holm & Castaldi, 2007). The illustrator Elicia Castaldi shared these answers with us about the process of creating this unique and critically acclaimed book.
To begin here’s an example of [...]
