Literacy
Two books for your reading pleasure this month; Iditarod Dream, a photo essay of Dusty Whittemore’s championship run in the Jr. Iditarod, and Woodsong, Gary Paulsen’s memoir of his experiences learning to run dogs and his first Iditarod race.With the Jr. Iditarod running the last weekend of February and the Iditarod starting the first weekend …
Are you looking for a book to use with your Iditarod unit of study? You’ve come to the right place! We’ve compiled a list of books to help you. In an effort provide you with useful resources that have been carefully vetted, we have limited our book list to books about Iditarod, the sport of …
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Zuma’s Paw Prints isn’t JUST reading material for your students. It is more than knowledge about Alaska and the race. The articles are content for teaching language arts and other curriculum areas. Bonnie Nizamis is an independent consultant working with schools across the country – and as she teaches teachers how to integrate technology in …
My school, Northwest Elementary in Kinston, NC, participated in the IditaRead™ for the first time this year. We challenged our 3-5th graders to see if they could read 1049 books. We started on February 22, and boy did the kids read! We had no idea that they would take to it quite like they did. We …
My class did a modified version of Idita-Read. I copied all of the materials from the web-site for each of my students. On the first page of the packet, the students had to set goals. Our goal as a class was to read for 15 minutes everyday during Language Arts class. This could be any …
I wrote the attached article for our state (South Carolina) Association of School Librarian’s professional journal, Media Center Messenger. I love following the Iditarod every year and every two or three years we do an Idita-READ event to inspire kids to read. I also attached the letter to parents and reading log that I’ve used …
Take a look at this featured article from Ruth Manna’s Scholastic Top Teaching Blog. Learn about Iditarod in the Classroom! Learn about the Powerful Pull of the Sled Dogs and discover many lesson connections at Ruth Manna’s Scholastic Top Teaching Blog.
Dog Mushers Legacy by William Miller, AK IDITAROD To Ancient peoples a far away place Now it’s Alaska’s greatest race Joe and Dorothy’s race you see This is their legacy Many mushers will gather to see The fresh faces of people from so many places Hundreds of dogs they will gather Willing to run in …
My class did a modified version of Idita-Read. I copied all of the materials from the web-site for each of my students. On the first page of the packet, the students had to set goals. Our goal as a class was to read for 15 minutes everyday during Language Arts class. This could be any …
