Judy Bradbury is a dedicated author of children's literature and a valuable resource for educators and parents. Her work thoughtfully integrates social-emotional learning with curricula for pre-kindergarten through eighth grade. Through her popular blog and engaging school visits, she passionately connects children, teachers, and the world of books.
It is still summer vacation, and the Cayuga Island Kids are looking for problems to solve, and after observing all the litter and how it is affecting the local wildlife they decide to take on the challenge of cleaning up the park and creating a recycling bin--but the bigger problem is how to get the whole community to take the problem seriously.
The Cayuga Island Kids learn about sorting through research and clues to ensure information is factual as they deal with faulty assumptions, missing facts, flour bugs, and chocolate chip cookies
Engaging young readers, this book features the Cayuga Island Kids, a group of five friends who embark on exciting adventures while developing information literacy and leadership skills. Through fun activities like solving mysteries with chocolate chip cookies and glitter pens, they become fact detectives who think critically, collaborate, and creatively tackle challenges. Their kindness, resourcefulness, and teamwork highlight the importance of friendship and learning in a delightful way.
The home-school connection is important to student literacy achievement. However, it can be time-consuming to develop and implement programming that keeps families engaged and involved. Empowering Families makes it easier to accomplish these goals! Chock-full of step-by-step plans for arranging a variety of parent/caregiver meetings and literacy booster events, the book enables educators to get families involved in their children's learning in ways that are fun and non-intimidating. By hosting these events at your school, you'll be empowering families to... read aloud to their children at home; minimize the summer slide; encourage male involvement in literacy; help their children avoid homework hassles; and much, much more! Bonus: The book includes ready-to-use handouts for your events, such as announcement sheets, follow-up evaluations, and tipsheets that describe ways parents can reinforce literacy at home. These handouts are photocopiable and the tipsheets are also available for easy download from our website at www.routledge.com/9781138803114. Spanish versions of the tipsheets are available on our website as well.