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.

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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

Samara Cole Doyon

Russ Cox

Robin Orm Hansen

Kevin Hawkes

Ryan Higgins

Jamie Hogan

Lita Judge

Maya Myers

Casey Robinson

Minquansis Sapiel

Melissa Sweet

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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

Deborah Freedman

Ezra Jack Keats

Amy Krous Rosenthal

Suzy Lee

Esteli Meza

Anne Sibley O’Brien

Chris Rashka

Anica Mrose Rissi

Brendan Wenzel

Eliza Wheeler

Deborah Wood

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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.