Fourth-grade teacher Laura Murray is here again with some great Storia ideas! Today, she’s talking about historical fiction. And who doesn’t love some good historical fiction? Thanks, Laura! History was never my favorite nor my best subjectmore… full post
Posted: May 16th, 2013 under Books, Education.
Tags: ebooks, guest blogger, storia, teaching
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In this post, Wendy Murray of Scholastic Teaching Resources talks with teacher and author Maria Walther to get practical advice for how primary teachers can meet the Common Core State Standards by ramping up read-alouds. Murray: The Common Coremore… full post
Posted: February 5th, 2013 under Education, Uncategorized.
Tags: authors, common core, education, read-alouds, teachers, teaching
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Fourth-grade teacher Laura Murray is here again with some great Storia ideas! Today, she’s talking about nonfiction — and more importantly, how to get kids reading it mindfully. At school we are in the thick of one of our nonfictionmore… full post
Posted: January 7th, 2013 under Books, Education.
Tags: ebooks, guest blogger, nonfiction, storia, teaching
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Fourth-grade teacher Laura Murray is back with more great Storia ideas! She first showed us a parent’s peek into Storia, followed by a piece on the “notes” and “highlights” functionality of Storia and then a spotlight on using Storia tomore… full post
Posted: January 2nd, 2013 under Books, Education.
Tags: ebooks, guest blogger, storia, teaching
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Laura Murray is back with more great Storia ideas! She’s a fourth grade teacher in Paramus, New Jersey, who first showed us a parent’s peek into Storia, followed by a piece on the “notes” and “highlights” functionality of Storia. Now, she’smore… full post
Posted: November 26th, 2012 under Books, Education.
Tags: classrooms, ebooks, kids, mysteries, reading, storia
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How about a big OOM welcome for Laura Murray! She’s a fourth grade teacher in Paramus, New Jersey, who’s back to talk about how she uses Storia — both in her classroom and at home with her daughter. (You might remember her first post, Amore… full post
Posted: November 20th, 2012 under Books, Education.
Tags: ebooks, ereading, nonfiction, storia
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Everyone is still talking about Storia, Scholastic’s free ereading app for kids and classrooms. Today we have Laura Murray, a fourth grade teacher from Paramus, New Jersey, who’s using Storia in her classroom for her second year running. (Neat!)more… full post
Posted: September 28th, 2012 under Books.
Tags: guest blogger, reading, storia
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Scholastic Book Clubs released a list of the bestselling books in the 2010-2011 school year across seven categories. It’s really cool to look at this list each year to get a sense of what kids are choosing to read — some years they go crazy formore… full post
Posted: July 5th, 2011 under Books, More News.
Tags: Book Clubs, book trends, books
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