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5 Strategies to Help Parents Navigate Lexile
This week we are tackling what parents can do once they hear those magical words, “Your child has a Lexile score of…” For strategies for teachers and booksellers on navigating leveling systems and...
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Inspiring the Next Architects: Children’s Books About Design, Building, and...
Celebrate architecture and design for Archtober with students! October, or “Archtober” as it is called, marks the 4th annual month-long festival of all things architecture and design in New York City....
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How to Teach Close Reading Using a Recipe
What happens if we don’t follow a recipe? Potentially, a disaster. Recipes require careful reading and we can literally taste the consequences of our failure to do so. In this way, a recipe is...
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Reading Paired Texts to Increase Student Engagement
In the fall of 2012 a news story emerged that astronomers had discovered a planet largely made out of diamond. Third grade at my school spent the first two quarters studying the solar system;...
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First Look, Second Look, Third Look: Close “Reading” with Book Art
I’ll admit it: I was looking for a Native American book by a Native American author to write about in light of Thanksgiving and National American Indian Heritage Month as many teachers do this time of...
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Books to Celebrate and Teach about Adoption
National Adoption Day this November 22 and National Adoption Month this November afford a time to share experiences and reflect on families. Whether you have students who have been adopted or are part...
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Choosing the World Our Students Read
Emily Chiariello is a Teaching and Learning Specialist with Teaching Tolerance. She has 15 years’ experience as a classroom teacher, professional development and curriculum designer in public, charter...
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Protesting Injustice Then and Now
In August we wrote to you about the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. Our publisher said then that the matter of representation was urgent; now, four months later, we see that urgency for...
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Interview: Katheryn Russell-Brown on the research behind Little Melba and Her...
Released in September of 2014, Little Melba and Her Big Trombone is the story of Melba Liston, a little-known but trailblazing musician who broke gender and racial barriers to become a famed trombonist...
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ALA Youth Media Awards Wins for Lee & Low Books!
Yesterday was the ALA Youth Media Awards, or the “Oscars of Children’s Literature” as they’re sometimes called. It was a big day for diversity. Diverse books and authors were honored across the board...
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Why I Love to Read Sad and Dark Books to Children (and You Should Too)
Gleam and Glow written by Eve Bunting, illustrated by Peter Sylvada Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust written by Eve Bunting, illustrated by Stephen Gammell Hiroshima No Pika written and...
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4 Mentor Texts and Activities for National Poetry Month
April is National Poetry Month. With so many forms of poetry to explore and share with students, what will you choose? Here are 4 ideas for using mentor texts to guide students in poetry study....
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7 End-of-Year Field Trips and Book Pairings That Your Students Will Love (but...
Assessments may not feel far enough in the past (or perhaps haven’t even started!), but the end of the year is fast approaching and field trip planning is in full force! It can feel like a scramble....
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Interpreting César Chávez’s Legacy with Students
In this guest post, Sara Burnett, education associate at the American Immigration Council, presents strategies and resources to enrich the classroom with the legacy of César Chávez. This blog post was...
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Submit Your Picture Book Manuscript to the New Voices Award!
Summer is almost there! That means that the sixteenth annual NEW VOICES AWARD is now open for submissions. Established in 2000, the New Voices Award was one of the first (and remains one of the only)...
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How to Read With Your Rising First Graders and Kinders This Summer
For parents of soon-to-be kindergartners and first graders, helping their children be prepared for the start of school can be exciting and daunting (and not just for students). What can parents do over...
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The Perfect Picture Book for the Last Day of School
Your last day with this class is here. You have one last time to share the moment when you gather for a read aloud. How will you honor the moment? The last day of school is hectic, a blur, a blast,...
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10 Myths about Teaching STEM Books and How You Can Teach STEM in Your...
Join Lee & Low Books and Anastasia Suen, Founder of the STEM Friday blog and award-winning children’s book author, for a dynamic discussion on how to teach STEM in your classroom starting this...
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The Other Side of Quiet – An Intern’s Perspective
Kandace Coston is LEE & LOW’s summer intern. She is one of five recipients of the We Need Diverse Books Internship Program inaugural grant. She graduated from Barnard College where she majored in...
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New Voices Award Winners on Revising Your Story
This year marks our sixteenth annual New Voices Award, Lee & Low’s writing contest for unpublished writers of color. In this blog series, past New Voices winners gather to give advice for new...
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