Using Biographies In Your Classroom

Introduce your students to these amazing biographies with creative strategies to teach literacy skills and address the multiple intelligences in any classroom. Activities such as creating a time line, drawing a mural, writing a biography, and acting out a scene from history allow students to engage with the biographies of some of the world's most influential leaders of the past century. Stimulate student interest with provided TIME magazine covers and background information. Meet the needs of all students with tiered activities to target all students.

This resource introduces biographies with fun and creative strategies and activities to teach literacy skills and more including: creating a time line; drawing a mural; writing a biography; and acting out a scene. Stimulate student interest with provided TIME magazine covers and background information and meet the needs of all students with specific English language learner strategies and open-ended activities. This resource also includes a Teacher Resource CD with full color reproducibles.

Introduce biographies with fun, creative activities that teach literacy skills and more. Use multiple intelligences to create an active learning environment. Meet the needs of all students with specific differentiation suggestions.

From Althea Gibson author Megan Reid and rising star artist Aaliya Jaleel, illustrator of Under My Hijab, comes the first picture book about trailblazing mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani, the first woman to win the world’s most prestigious honor in mathematics. Perfect for fans of Hidden Figures and Mae Among the Stars. As a little girl, Maryam Mirzakhani was spellbound by stories. She loved reading in Tehran’s crowded bookstores, and at home she'd spend hours crafting her own tales on giant rolls of paper. Maryam loved school, especially her classes in reading and writing. But she did not like math. Numbers were nowhere near as interesting as the bold, adventurous characters she found in books. Until Maryam unexpectedly discovered a new genre of storytelling: In geometry, numbers became shapes, each with its own fascinating personality—making every equation a brilliant story waiting to be told. As an adult, Maryam became a professor, inventing new formulas to solve some of math's most complicated puzzles. And she made history by becoming the first woman—and the first Iranian—to win the Fields Medal, mathematics’ highest award. Maryam's Magic is the true story of a girl whose creativity and love of stories helped her—and the world—to see math in a new and inspiring way.

Introduce biographies with fun, creative activities that teach literacy skills and more. Stimulate student interest with the color TIME Magazine cover. Focus on the background information, time line, comprehension questions, and extension ideas.

Introduce biographies with fun, creative activities that teach literacy skills and more. Stimulate student interest with the color TIME Magazine cover. Focus on the background information, time line, comprehension questions, and extension ideas.

Introduce biographies with fun, creative activities that teach literacy skills and more. Stimulate student interest with the color TIME Magazine cover. Focus on the background information, time line, comprehension questions, and extension ideas.

Ready to go far beyond the usual classroom book collection to make your library a dynamic support for all your literacy teaching? In this practical, one-of-a-kind book, two veteran educators show you how to use your library as: A resource for mini-lessons on book selection, author's craft, comprehension strategies and other literacy lessons. A source for interactive read-alouds. An extension of your shared-reading and guided-reading instruction. A motivating place for students' independent reading in many genres. A gallery of student book responses, recommendations, and student-authored works. And much more!