Category Archives: Resources for Teachers and Librarians

Super Cities! Baltimore Crossword Puzzle Now Available!

Check out these new FREE resources for educators!

The answers to all the clues can be found in Super Cities! Baltimore. Find out more about the book below!

Super Cities! Baltimore by Kathy MacMillan coverSuper Cities! Baltimore by Kathy MacMillan

Arcadia Publishing, 2023. $14.99.

Sometimes the coolest places are right outside your front door. Learning about Baltimore’s interesting and unique culture has never been so super fun!

ISBN 9781467198981

 

“After 19 years of living in Baltimore, 10 of them spent covering the city streets on a bicycle (my only mode of transportation during that time), and seven moves across the city’s neighborhoods, I didn’t think there was much left for me to discover about Charm City. Even so, I’d be hard-pressed to compile an exhaustive list of everything that makes our city the greatest. Kathy MacMillan’s done some of the work for us in Super Cities! Baltimore. I sat down to read the book with my six-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Mila…’I basically liked all of the book,’ Mila told me after we’d finished reading. ‘It felt like I was really there.’” – “Mother/Daughter Corner: Ana and Mila Hart Review ‘Super Cities! Baltimore’”, Baltimore Fishbowl

“My Turn: Exploring Our Super City” in the June 2023 issue of Baltimore’s Child 

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Celebrate Women’s History All Year Round

Picture of a little girl dressed as Rosie the Riveter with headline: 6 Tips for Sharing Women’s History with Kids All Year Round

In 1987, the United States Congress declared March as Women’s History Month. But women’s history—also known as just plain history—has been around as long as there have been women, even if it wasn’t always recorded, shared, or taught in schools. Here are some tips for weaving women’s history into conversations with kids every month of the year – see my full article at Familius.com.

Celebrate Women’s History Month with the voices of amazing women!

she spoke cover    she spoke too cover

When the world tells you to stay quiet, do you listen, or do you speak up? Read about 14 inspiring women in each of these books and then, with the touch of a button readers can hear their voices!  Find out more about the She Spoke series here.

Educator and Librarian Resources:

Word searches:

Speak Up! Listen Up!: Using She Spoke in the Classroom at Pencil Tips: Writing Workshop Strategies from Children’s Authors and Illustrators

She Spoke video storytime at KidTime StoryTime

She Spoke Playlist – Listen, read, and be inspired with our girl power playlist on Spotify!

She Spoke Pinterest board – More links, clips, and recordings of the amazing women profiled in the book and more heroines you should know.

Interviews with the authors:

Librarian and Teacher Resources for NITA’S FOOD SIGNS

I’m so excited to share with you these resources for using Nita’s Food Signs in the classroom or storytime!

Nita’s Food Signs Teacher/Librarian Guide (printable .pdf)

 

Video Demonstration of the Signs in the Book:

 

Nita’s Food Signs Storytime with Author Kathy MacMillan (in Spoken English with Closed Captions)

Nita’s Food Signs Storytime with Author Kathy MacMillan (in American Sign Language)

 

More Resources for Signing with Young Children:

Little Hands Signing Storytime & Craft Ideas

Little Hands and Big Hands: Children and Adults Signing Together

Resources for Signing with Babies and Young Children

Resources for Signing in Storytime or the Classroom

Resources for Educators and Librarians

Picture Books about ASL and Deaf Culture

Hear This!: Use That Microphone, Already

photo of a microphoneIt happens again and again: a speaker is asked to use a microphone, and they say, “Oh, I don’t need it. I have a [teacher/pastor/camp counselor/fill-in-the-blank supposedly loud profession] voice.”  (I even had a clergy member at my own parent’s funeral try to pull this!)

But guess what? It has nothing to do with how loud you (supposedly) are, and everything to do with your audience’s comfort and access. Some people can hear high sounds, some low, and some need you to use the microphone to help drown out background noise. And just because people can hear you when you shout “Can you hear me?” at the top of your voice, that doesn’t mean that they can comfortably listen to you for five or ten or sixty minutes when your voice, tone, and pitch go up and down in the course of normal speaking.

Continue reading Hear This!: Use That Microphone, Already