Laura Purdie Salas

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Solve the Puzzle for Animal Adaptations! #ClassroomConnections

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It’s that time of year! Animals are growing thicker coats or gathering seeds and nuts Or they’re hunting for places to hibernate or perhaps they’re traveling to a winter home where they can find food and raise young. If you’re studying winter adaptations, here’s an activity sheet that goes with my book Snack, Snooze, Skedaddle. […]

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Winners of the Water Runs Through This Book Giveaway

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Last week I shared Nancy Bo Flood’s new book, Water Runs Through This Book (Fulcrum Publishing, 2015) twice: once for Nonfiction Monday and once for Poetry Friday. I love books that meld different genres! Thank you to everyone who entered the giveaway and shared about Nancy’s book with others. As many of you mentioned in […]

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Water Runs Through This Book, by Nancy Bo Flood (plus a giveaway!)

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Over the weekend, I read Nancy Bo Flood’s new book, Water Runs Through This Book (Fulcrum Publishing, 2015). What a cool genre mash-up about one of my favorite topics–water! This book is packed full of facts, photos, ponderings, poetry, quotations, questions, and wonder. It’s perfect for upper elementary and middle school students, but you could […]

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