Thursday, April 29, 2010

We're the Non-Fiction Monday book this week!

Anastasia Suen teaches writing to all ages, and uses "Picture Books to Teach the Six Traits of Writing."

She offers the following writing suggestion at her page

Older Than the Stars by Karen C. Fox (Author) and Nancy Davis (Illustrator), is the Big Bang theory told as a cumulative rhyme. (Facts on each page explain the event in more detail.)

This is the BANG
when the world began.


Ideas Mini-lesson
Primary/Intermediate:
Ask students to write a response to the ideas in this book. What did they think about being “older than the stars?” Use the Idea Rake graphic organizer before writing.

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

The Children's Book Council

Older Than the Stars was added to The Children's Book Council's reading list!

Friday, January 29, 2010

This is the Bang!


Download the cover image
Download the The Timeline of the Universe poster (11x17)

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Welcome to the AstroBlog

This is the place
where Karen Fox
will tell the story
of the building blocks
that created the bang
from which the world sprang.