Laminack, Lester L.

"In 'Writers Are Readers,' the mutually supportive roles of reading and writing are made visible through the idea of 'flipsides': how a reader's insights can be turned around to provide insights into his own writing, and vice versa"--Back cover.

A young boy remembers the Saturdays when he was nine or ten and he would ride his bicycle to his Ma'am-maw's house, where they spent the day together mowing the lawn, picking vegetables, eating lunch, and making delicious, sweet teacakes.

When a peacock visits Tuckers' farm, three hens protest all the attention he gets. The wise hound dog suggests they switch places so the hens spend the day strutting around and the peacock must figure out how to lay an egg. Soon everyone realizes the importance of their own job.

A young boy remembers the Saturdays when he was nine or ten and he would ride his bicycle to his Ma'am-maw's house, where they spent the day together mowing the lawn, picking vegetables, eating lunch, and making delicious, sweet teacakes.

A practical guide for planning and implementing a read-aloud program in the classroom with information on curriculum standards, motivating children to read independently, and vocabulary and writing.

When life on the Tucker farm is disrupted by the arrival of a peacock, whose shrieking and strutting bring many welcome visitors, the hens complain that they are doing all of the work until the hound suggests a trade.

Offers advice to literacy coaches and teachers on how to use read alouds to help students become skilled readers and writers, featuring tutorials based on favorite picture books, discussing the importance of tone, intensity, pacing, and mood in reading aloud, and including a companion DVD.

Describes the benefits of read-aloud instruction in math, social studies, language arts, and science, and explains how to implement it, providing twelve units--three in each subject area--with summaries of over four hundred recommended titles.

A guide for writing that provides fourteen explained lessons and a detailed description of the process used by author Lester Laminack to compose his picture book, "Saturdays and Teacakes, " and explains how to read from a writer's perspective. Includes a DVD.

Two siblings imagine all the fun things they will do the next day when the big predicted snowfall cancels school, but when the morning comes, no snow has fallen, and it turns out someone else wanted a snow day even more than they did.