EXPLORE MORE BOOK GUIDES
Good preparation is an essential part of Island Readers & Writers programs and our custom-designed Explore More Guides provide resources that help bring books to life! Each portal will take you to our Explore More Guides for picture books, chapter books and middle-grade books used in IRW programs. Our Getting the Right Start activities are perfect for preschoolers and feature activities for popular picture books.
PICTURE BOOKS
Explore More Guides contain numerous clickable links to cross-curricular resources and thoughtful pathways for deep exploration of the subjects and themes in the book.
All Explore More Guides are PDFs. Clicking on the link will bring you to the PDF; right-click on the PDF to save it to your computer for future access.
Explore More Guides contain links and images and may take a minute to fully load.
Toni Buzzeo
Annette Leblanc Cate
Samara Cole Doyon
Russ Cox
Anna Crowley Redding
Robin Orm Hansen
Kevin Hawkes
Ryan Higgins
Jamie Hogan
Paul Janeczko
Lita Judge
Matt Myers
Maya Myers
Anne Sibley O’Brien
Anica Mrose Rissi
Casey Robinson
Minquansis Sapiel
Melissa Sweet
GETTING THE RIGHT START PICTURE BOOKS
The activities for these popular picture books were created for IRW's Getting the Right Start initiative, a book-centered program for pre-K kids. Using the Whole Book Approach and Visual Thinking Strategies, these activities are designed to stretch imaginations, strengthen language development, observational skills and most importantly, to encourage fun with picture books!
Koen Van Biesen
Linda Ashman
Lizi Boyd
Peter Brown
Ashley Bryan
Samara Cole Doyon
Deborah Freedman
Molly Idle
Ezra Jack Keats
Amy Krous Rosenthal
Esteli Meza
Anne Sibley O’Brien
Chris Rashka
Anica Mrose Rissi
Brendan Wenzel
Eliza Wheeler
Deborah Wood
Jane Yolen
CHAPTER BOOKS & MIDDLE GRADES
Good preparation is an essential part of Island Readers & Writers programs. This page provides book-related questions and activities that help prepare readers for an author and/or illustrator visit.
Explore More Guides contain numerous clickable links to cross-curricular resources and thoughtful pathways for deep exploration of the subjects and themes in the book.
All Explore More Guides are PDFs. Clicking on the link will bring you to the PDF; right-click on the PDF to save it to your computer for future access.
Explore More Guides contain links and images and may take a minute to fully load.