Articles for Educators 2006 to 2016

“Why STEM Pic­ture Books Are Per­fect for Teach­ing Non­fic­tion Text Struc­ture,” Kids Talk Kid Lit. Novem­ber 14, 2016. (Click to retrieve.)

“What the Heck Is an Infor­ma­tion­al Book?” SCBWI Bul­letin. Autumn 2016, p. 20–21.

“SCBWI Suc­cess Sto­ry.” SCBWI Bul­letin. Sum­mer 2016, p. 8.

“Look at how we’re teach­ing non­fic­tion!” Bookol­o­gy. June 8, 2016. (Click to retrieve.)

“The Impor­tance of ‘Thought­ful Spots,’” Sci/Why. Feb­ru­ary 19, 2016. (Click to retrieve.)

“My Most Crit­i­cal Writ­ing Tool,” Shar­ing Our Note­books. Jan­u­ary 8, 2016. (Click to retrieve.)

“Diver­si­ty in Think­ing,” A Fuse #8 Pro­duc­tion/School Library Jour­nal. Decem­ber 21, 2015. (Click to retrieve.)

“A Dif­fer­ent View” Bookol­o­gy. Sep­tem­ber 29, 2015. (Click to retrieve.)

“Beau­ty and Won­der, Mag­ic and Mys­tery: It’s What I Write About.” Authors for Earth Day. Sep­tem­ber 1, 2015. (Click to retrieve.)

“Craft­ing Non­fic­tion: Con­duct­ing Research and Orga­niz­ing Infor­ma­tion.” Two Writ­ing Teach­ers. May 20, 2015. (Click to retrieve.)

“A Fresh Look at Expos­i­to­ry Non­fic­tion.” Book­l­o­gy. Wind­ing Oak. Min­neapo­lis, MN, March 17, 2015. (Click to retrieve.)

“Per­fect Pairs.” Nerdy Book Club. Octo­ber 28, 2014. (Click to retrieve.)

“The Time It Takes.” Nerdy Book Club. Octo­ber 13, 2013. (Click to retrieve.)

“Aha Moments,” Unabridged. Octo­ber 1, 2013. (Click to retrieve.)

“Lay­er Upon Lay­er: Build­ing a Non­fic­tion Man­u­script.” Cyn­sa­tions. Sep­tem­ber 17, 2013. (Click to retrieve.)

“What Do the Kids Think?” Nerdy Book Club, March 15, 2013. (Click to retrieve.)

“Bring­ing Sci­ence to Life with Read­ers The­ater.” Knowl­edge Quest, Amer­i­can Asso­ci­a­tion of School Librar­i­ans, Chica­go, IL, November/December 2010.

“Sci­ence Edu­ca­tion: Flout­ing For­mal­i­ty,” Sci­ence, Amer­i­canAs­so­ci­a­tion for the Advance­ment of Sci­ence, Wash­ing­ton, D.C., 13 August 2010.

“Per­fect Pairs: Teach­ing Sci­ence Through Lit­er­a­ture,” Sci­ence Books & Films, Amer­i­can Asso­ci­a­tion for the Advance­ment of Sci­ence, Wash­ing­ton, D.C., May 2010.

“Sci­ence Read­ing Bud­dies.” Sci­ence Books & Films, Amer­i­can Asso­ci­a­tion for the Advance­ment of Sci­ence, Wash­ing­ton, D.C., May/June 2009.

“The Sci­ence of Read­ers The­ater,” Read­ing Today, Inter­na­tion­al Read­ing Asso­ci­a­tion, Newark, DE, December/January 2009.

“Sci­ence Books + Read­ers The­ater,” Sci­ence Books & Films, Amer­i­can Asso­ci­a­tion for the Advance­ment of Sci­ence, Wash­ing­ton, D.C., May/June 2008.

“Col­lect­ing But­ter­fly Sto­ries,” Book Links, Amer­i­can Library Asso­ci­a­tion, Chica­go, IL, Novem­ber 2006.

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