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Trout Are Made of Trees Grand Canyon Readers

admin — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:45:37 +0000

Trout Are Made of Trees has been nominated for the 2011 Grand Canyon Reader Award so lots of AZ schoolchildren will be reading it next school year. Hooray!

Food Chain, Food Web Activity for Trout Are Made of Trees

admin — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 15:17:38 +0000

Shirley Duke recently presented this food web and food chain activity at the Texas Library Association Convention. She’s generously letting me post the entire activity for download here.

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Trout Are Made of Trees, by April Pulley Sayre. Illustrated by Kate Endle

ISBN: 978-1-58089-137-0 Charlesbridge

Grade Level: 3-5

Subject: Science: Food Chain, System Interactions, Processes Within Systems, Consequences of Removing Vital Components

Prepared by: Shirley Duke www.simplyscience.wordpress.com; www.shirleysmithduke.com

Ants, Vultures, and Compost Curricula, Lexington SC Schools

admin — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 22:58:48 +0000

A few more photos from Lexington School District in SC. I was there for 9 days of talks including a weekend READ Fest, a community event put on by the extraordinary school librarians of this district.

Trout Are Made of Trees Illustrator

admin — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:03:11 +0000

Here’s a link to a blog that asks Kate Endle about her art, including the art she did for our book, Trout Are Made of Trees. Hooray, Kate!

Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast

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Trout Are Made of Trees Activities and Fish Chant Art

admin — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 02:16:43 +0000

From Hamilton School, some extraordinary art and thought!

What’s New 2008

admin — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:10:50 +0000

This has been a great year. VULTURE VIEW was named a Theodor Geisel Honor book by the American Library Association.

See the lovely Geisel Honor Sticker?

This relatively new award is named after Dr. Seuss and it honors both the text and illustrations of books geared for children beginning to read. I am thrilled and so happy for my work to be paired with the great illustrations done by Steve Jenkins. I attended the ALA national conference in Anaheim to accept the Honor Award.

I also enjoyed seeing many of you at my sessions at the International Reading Association national conference in Atlanta in May, where I gave a talk as a featured author. Also, I spoke at the Illinois Reading Association conference in March and visited schools all over the place–from IN to OH to SC.

NSTA just recommended my new book, TROUT ARE MADE OF TREES, published by Charlesbridge. I love this book and I hope you will, too. Don’t forget the CONTEST for TROUT ARE MADE OF TREES.

Trout Are Made of Trees

Classrooms of students grades K-3 are encouraged to enter their environmental projects and art to compete for prizes, including a free school visit from me! The contest is open to classrooms all over the U.S. Charlesbridge will pay my travel expenses and I am donating the visit. So I will be seeing some of you in 2009! Full information on the contest can be found here: CONTEST

Contest Flyer For Trout Are Made of Trees

admin — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:52:32 +0000

Here is the Be a Stream Hero Contest Flyer for grades K-2.

Deadline is December 31, 2008.

Winner receives a huge collection of new books and a school visit by April Pulley Sayre

anywhere in the U. S.

Trout Are Made of Trees Contest Flyer

Fish Activities for Trout, Trout, Trout and Trout Are Made of Trees

admin — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:21:54 +0000

Trout Are Made of Trees Activities

admin — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 23:44:28 +0000

I have teamed up with Charlesbridge publishing, the publisher of this book, and created the Be a Stream Hero contest. The winner of the contest wins a school visit from me.

In fact, in honor of Trout Are Made of Trees, Charlesbridge publishing staff spent a day cleaning up the Charles river! This was featured in Publisher’s Weekly. But here’s a few photos of the day on their blog:

http://charlesbridge.blogspot.com/2008/06/practicing-what-we-publish.html

A good book to tie in with Trout Are Made of Trees is Jim Arnosky’s The Brook Book: exploring the smallest streams.

For older readers, I have heard about but not read a novel written by the great Jean Craighead George: The Case of the Missing Cutthroats (Ecological Mystery) paperback. Perhaps some older fish-loving readers might enjoy this one, which has to do with habitats and native fish. It’s older but was re-released in paperback.

Here’s an organization, River of Words that has a yearly contest for kids’ creative writing about nature. In 2008-2009, the contest is about watersheds!

http://www.riverofwords.org/contest/index.html