| "It's not just the knowledge of books, but the exercise of the brain that gives one the power and scope to think." Clayton Stribling 2008-2009
Kids' Wings Award
Books Children's literature provides powerful learning and entertainment opportunities that are catalysts to creativity and research. Click each title below to browse or order. Extension links for each book will be provided! In addition to the new literature, Transformers includes units on older books that make excellent literary partners. How do Kids' Wings activities for these books transform your classroom? They provide balance, problem solving, group activities, and inspiration by giving you essential Imaginative Activities and Testing Activities to use with authentic literature! Transformers The
Kids' Wings Award List for 2008-2009: The
2008-2009 Texas Bluebonnet Award Master ListSM:
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Transformers:
Literature Celebrations 2008-2009
This awesome teacher/student
learning guide
will be available ONLY through Kids'
Wings!
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"We are
continually faced by great opportunities
brilliantly disguised as insolvable problems." Lee Iacocca
To download the PowerPoint reader for the Transformers CD, click here.
* Language Alert: Two books on the Texas Bluebonnet Master ListSM contain instances of characters cursing or using Christ's name in cursing. Although, we at Kids' Wings, choose to honor the name of God in our speech and in our writing, we see the redeeming qualities of Tall Tales as important to many children and families faced with an alcoholic parent. This Is Just to Say brings a message of apology and forgiveness, very important in this world, but it includes two words that we wouldn't allow to be said in our classroom. It is disappointing that award-winning books would model vulgarities and the use of the name of Christ in cursing for our our children. (We don't expect all children to be Christians, but we do expect all children to respect the sacred names in all religions.) We believe it is time to respect our children in all areas of their lives, including their literature. We are grateful to authors who choose to use finesse in their descriptions of cursing and leave the exact words to the readers' experience and imaginations.
Kids' Wings has created outstanding activities for each novel, units which provide the latest in integrated curriculum.
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