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CHICAGO — Creative writing encourages imaginations to take flight, and when adults use the right approach, building literacy skills becomes a form of play that gets kids excited to create their own stories. Packed with ready-to-use lesson plans designed for kindergarten- and early elementary-aged children, “,” published by 91��ý Editions, will help librarians add creative writing activities to more traditional storytime initiatives and school librarians enrich English Language Arts lessons. AnnMarie Hurtado’s resource provides:

• an entire year’s worth of weekly lesson plans, adaptable as needed, that include instructions, handouts, and everything needed to plan and prepare;
• recommended read-alouds for each lesson plan;
• ideas and activities scaffolded for different ability levels;
• tips for using humor and silliness to grab kids’ attention and keep them engaged;
• information on how creative writing dovetails with Common Core standards, emphasizing skills and critical thinking over rote learning; and
• additional quality read-aloud picture books that can be used as inspiration to create new lessons.

Hurtado has worked in schools and libraries for more than eight years and for five years has been a librarian in the Youth Services Department of the Pasadena (California) Public Library. There she created a bilingual yearlong reading program called for elementary school students and facilitated a mother–daughter book club, a series of hands-on science workshops, and two monthly creative writing workshops, each tailored to different age groups—one is for tweens 9 to 12 years old, and the other is for kids 5 to 8 years old who are still developing their basic writing skills.

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