Wow, NCTE. What a hurricane of hugs, sessions, reunions, ideas. I shared a boatload of images on social media, so please do check out my Instagram or Facebook accounts (@laurapsalas for both) if you want a peek. Meanwhile, the session that I presented with Matt Forrest Esenwine, Charles Waters, and Michelle Schaub was fabulous! What an honor to present with them! And we had a nice turnout for a first-time-slot-on-Saturday-morning session, with a lovely mix of authors and educators.
We laughed a lot but also shared some easy-to-use activities and ideas for helping students connect with texts, with each other, and with the community. I’m still thinking about that skydiving pink platypus! Here are a few pics.
I always get so much out of these big conferences—ideas, connections, relationships, book ideas…I’m super grateful to Lerner for their help in getting to Boston this year (even though I didn’t have a new Lerner book out!). Thank you, Lerner, for that gift.
Now, Matt, Charles, Michelle, and I were presenting on the use of short texts as conversation starters. I know just the slides aren’t quite as lovely as if you’d been there in person, but I bet you can get some good thoughts and ideas from reading the slides and checking out the resources. And if you click on this image below, you’ll go to a page where you can download our presentation (either as a ppt or a pdf file) and our one sheet (which is actually two pages as a pdf)! Also, I shared Finding Family and Snowman-Cold=Puddle, and you can click on either title to go to its page here on my site for loads more resources.
[My Classroom Connections posts share a way to connect one of my books or poems to a classroom topic–often something timely that you might be covering in the next month or so. Please share this post if you have educator friends who might be interested–thanks!]
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Thank you for this, Laura! I wish I could have attended your session in person — what a fantastic group of poets and educators. One of these years I hope to make it back to NCTE.