The Great Depression
4 Terrific Units put unforgettable faces on The Great Depression! They include:
Rudy Rides the Rails
Wingwalker
Leah's Pony
Bud, Not Buddy

A 30-page Trio of Presidential Election Picture Bks:
Duck for President
If I Ran for President
So You Want to Be President (Caldecott Winner)

BAT BOOKS: Paired Literature Unit About Bats: Stellaluna and Little Lost Bat

Because of Winn-Dixie PLUS
How to Talk to Your Dog

Comets, Stars, The Moon, and Mars Finding Our Way: In the Wilderness, On the Sea, and In Space. Includes Follow the Trail
Sea Clocks, The Story of Longitude

DIARY OF... Doreen Cronin's
Diary of a Worm, Diary of a Spider, and Diary of a Fly

Finding Our Way: In the Wilderness, On the Sea, and In Space
Follow the Trail
Sea Clocks, The Story of Longitude
Comets, Stars, The Moon, and Mars

The Great Depression
4 Terrific Units put unforgettable faces on The Great Depression! They include:
Rudy Rides the Rails
Wingwalker
Leah's Pony
Bud, Not Buddy

Heroes with Handicaps in 3 Picture Books:
The Hero of Bremen;
The Fastest Woman on Earth, Wilma Unlimited; and
Lou Gehrig: The Luckiest Man

Hispanic Books: 3 Award-Winners Esperanza Rising;
Harvesting Hope, The Story of Ceasar Chavez; and
Any Small Goodness, A Novel of the Bario

Peg Kehret Books: 3 Award-Winners
Earthquake Terror --THE story to change your reluctant readers to avid readers! Upgraded!
The Ghost's Grave--A Classic Ghost Story!
Small Steps, The Year I Got Polio--Peg Kehret's Autobiography

Sixteen Years in Sixteen Seconds,
The Sammy Lee Story
--an Olympic Hero overcomes prejudice

Thank you for such a great time during the conference. You have done a fabulous job with these books. I appreciate you willingness to stand up and say that you do not recommend a book. We need more people to do the same! I plan on coming to your next conference next year.

Thank you,

Julie Bennett
3rd grade teacher
Miss May Vernon Elem.

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Suzy,

I just wanted to tell you how much I enjoyed your workshops at Region 17 in Lubbock. I attended Thursday's workshop (Flying Higher) and was so impressed that I signed up for Friday's workshop (Gifts and Givers). I wish I had known about you and your materials when I was in the classroom.

I am now an elementary librarian and will be adding your website to our school homepage under "teacher resources". You do have the BEST website. I spent hours enjoying your website after Thursday's workshop. Every time my husband passed through I was looking at something new and telling him want wonderful thing I had just found. I was like a kid in a candy shop with unlimited funds to spend.

Thank you for your time, dedication, and hard work you put into creating the abundant materials and maintaining the most fantastic website I have ever seen. You are amazing!!!

Thank you again for coming to the Lubbock area, and I hope you will be back in the near future. May you and Charlie have a safe uneventful trip as you travel doing your workshops.

Sincerely,
Valerie Addington
Frendship ISD

P.S.
Remember to take the RV antenna down AND put the reminder sign on the steering wheel.

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I love your upbeat moral instruction! I always know I can count on it to be good! Karen Harrell
Springbranch ISD

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I am, indeed, enjoying the unit of THE GOLLYWHOPPER GAMES my school just purchased as are my students enjoying listening to it and doing some of the activities. You make my job easier and a joy.

Thank you,
Victoria LeBlanc!
Groves ISD
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Words can not express how much my students enjoy your lessons. They hit all learning styles. I would definitely do your lessons during my appraisal. I teach 3rd grade bilingual students and have used the Stepstone Stories picture books faithfully, but I have 5 students who work in Transformers. They love it. Let me explain why I use both Stepstone Stories and Transformers in my class. I have five students reading above picture book level, but they also have to do the Transformers. They just finished up doing the mock trial for Marvelous Mattie. It was great! Three fourths of my students did not have the slightest clue about a courtroom. I call the students who do Transformers the Furious Five. Well the Furious Five picked several students to help them in the mock trial and the students who did not have a part were the jury.

My students memorized the Bob and Otto Readers Theater. One more key fact is that I have 24 students this year. So to include them all I divide them up by parts. For example the left side was Bob and the right side was Otto. Then the next day they would switch. They didn't like to switch because they realized they were more fluent on the one they had already practiced the day before! What started with a simple book led to a series of engaging activities: a wormatorium and we raising butterfly in our class as well. It was great!!

The books about friendship have contributed to a great classroom environment. My students all get along and work hard together. They call themselves TEAM 308 (our room number). The loved the Duck and Goose, they favorite part was then they acted it out. They love soccer!

Since they are bilingual, Fiesta Fiasco was an instant winner. They did not know that TORTA was cake. Great social studies extension.

The possibilities are endless! I can not tell you how much they love reading because of your lessons. We do your lessons while others teachers do worksheets about testing. Due to their love of reading, we read chapter books together during DEAR time. It never fails when we read a chapter book they remember what they read in one of your lessons, and all I can do is smile inside knowing that learning is going on.

One last note: Chalkboards Songs are their favorite. Again they have memorized them, and during math when we read our math story problems, they tell me to read it chipmunk style, Texas style, opera style. They are so funny/cute.

Linda Vasquez, Royal Elementary School, Brookshire, TX
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I attended your workshop in Abilene and spoke about how my TAKS scores had improved since using the Bluebonnet books as my curriculum. I just received word from my superintendent about the Gold Performance Acknowledgements. Rotan Elementary School received three GPAs: 1) percentage of students receiving Commended on Reading, 2) percentage of students receiving Commended on Math, and 3) percentage of students receiving Commended on Writing. I teach 4th and 5th reading and 4th writing. One more proof that your curriculum pays off! Thanks!
Lisa Cade
Rotan, Texas
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I love using Suzy Red’s curriculum units in my classroom. I am a literacy teacher that remediates third, fourth, and fifth graders. Her units allow me to use current literature without having to create my own units while I wait on a publisher. My students really love reading on their grade level and having the units brings fun into the classroom!
Kimberly Lowe
Aledo ISD, Texas
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I started The Invention of Hugo Cabret yesterday with my 6th graders. It went fantastic! They were truly engaged in the pre-reading activities provided in the unit. A lot of great discussion was held. The only problem I had was having to end the discussions to get to the next activity. As a teacher of the gifted, I really appreciate the open-ended and higher level questions, and so do the students! I usually have to modify the units I find or purchase, or just start from scratch. It is so nice to be able to use your units that are top quality and ready to go.
Thanks again,
Nick Allen
Delhi Middle School, OH
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Today I attended a workshop titled ELA Texas Adolescent Literacy Academy. It presented research-based ways to help all students read better. I am happy to say that the information that was taught was a lot of the stuff you've been doing for years. One of the lessons was to use an anticipation guide in which the students agreed or disagreed with opinions from the text. Does this sound familar? I couldn't stay quiet about this so I told others about you and all of your great ideas you do with the bluebonnet books. They even liked your guide better than the one offered. :) Hopefully you will get some more teachers as excited to teach your material as I am. I guess you could say that today, I was a walking commercial for you.
Have a great weeekend!!
Shelly Paschal
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Thank you so much Suzy! I love what you do...you are a blessing to many teachers and students. Through your lessons, my students have learned to LOVE to read and write. They are EXCITED to come to class and read! Using your lessons, for the past two years, my students have accomplished 100% success on the TAKS Writing and Reading. THANK YOU!!!
Sincerely,
Kimberly Wright
4th grade teacher
Cielo Vista Elementary
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Wow! I am impressed. I stumbled upon your website yesterday and ordered Transformers with my fingers-crossed, not fully knowing what to expect. Your well-designed units are perfect for the work I do with my 5th graders. Thank you!
Sunny wishes,
Karen Ollerenshaw
5th Grade Teacher
Redmond, Washington