Calvin Gets the Last Word by Margo Sorenson
February 5 is World Read Aloud Day! Here’s a great new book to celebrate this national holiday and a FREE lesson plan to help launch a JOYful word-learning initiative. Learn how to collect new words while enjoying a battle between brothers. It’s sure to inspire a crop of new logophiles in your classroom.
Linda
Linda Szakmary has five decades of experience working as a classroom teacher, a district curriculum writer, a district facilitator of K-5 writing, and as a county K-8 literacy coach. She now works for Sullivan and Orange-Ulster BOCES as a content specialist. A poetry advocate and a lover of words and children’s literature, she has been a presenter at several state-wide conferences on vocabulary and writing. Currently, she is working with the staff developers of Mossflower to study intermediate vocabulary instruction within a reading workshop. Linda lives in Stone Ridge, NY where she enjoys gardening, yoga, reading, and rooting for the Yankees. You can often find her on a beach searching for sea glass.
