101 Ways to Bug Your Students - Creatively!
Mummified Chickens. Kid Inventors. Writer's Block. Ms. Wardlaw will share these
(and more!) lively and creative lessons plans in this interactive session
for teachers and librarians who wish to use her novel 101 Ways to Bug Your
Teacher with students in grades 4th-8th. Cross-curriculum web links, resources
and thematic activities will be also featured.
Presenter: is the award-winning author of 24 books for children, ranging from toddler titles to teen novels. 101 Ways to Bug Your Parents won numerous awards, including the 1999 CHILIS Great Stone Face Award and four other state children's choice awards. It was also named a 2004 International Librarians Recommend Book, an American Bookseller "Pick of the Lists", and a Bank Street College Best Humorous Book of the Year. The sequel, 101 Ways to Bug Your Teacher, was just honored as a Best Book of the Month by the National Council of Teachers of English and named a 2004-05 IRA/CBC Children's Choice Book. Ms. Wardlaw, a former elementary school teacher, has taught workshops for adults since 1988, including those sponsored by the California Reading Association and the Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators. She lives in Santa Barbara, CA, with her family.
Handout (Word
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