We’ve assembled a few resources that we think you’ll want to have close at hand as you read Number the Stars and complete your Read-Aloud Poster.
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Read-Aloud Poster Spotlight: Number the Stars
Published in 1989, Number the Stars by Lois Lowry is a Newbery-award winning historical fiction middle-grade novel. While you may remember it as a favorite from your own childhood, if you’ve never read it before, it’s a story you’ll enjoy hearing for the first time as you read it with your family.
Our Read-Aloud Poster for this book includes activities that will help your family understand the story itself as well as appreciate the historical and geographical context of the book. In this blog post, we’ll take a look at the poster activities.
The Secret Garden: Resources for Reading
If you’re getting ready to start reading The Secret Garden using our Read-Aloud Poster, you’ll want to bookmark this post and keep it handy. We’ve assembled all our favorite resources to enrich your reading and use with our poster. Enjoy!
Read-Aloud Poster Spotlight: The Secret Garden
Like all our Read-Aloud Posters, our poster for The Secret Garden balances novel and familiar activities within the unique context of this particular book. Our Poster Spotlight looks at the novel activities first (those that will likely be new to even seasoned Read-Aloud Poster users) and then look at the familiar activities (we’ve used some variation of the activity of previous posters). After all - if this is your very first poster, it’s all new to you!
The Secret Garden: Version Tour
No, you don’t really NEED a beautifully illustrated version for your read-aloud of The Secret Garden, but there are some really beautiful versions out there. We did some comparisons to help you choose the version that best fits your family's style. Don’t you want to just take a peek?