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Guessing Geisel: A Mock Geisel Blog: December 2016
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Saturday, December 31, 2016. Cast Your Ballot for Guessing Geisel's Mock! Now's your chance to cast your ballot for Guessing Geisel's Mock! As they do on the real committee. We'll be weighting the responses with 4 points for each first choice vote, 3 points for each second choice vote, and 2 points for each third choice vote. This ballot will stay open Jan. 1st-7th. If needed, a second ballot will be posted Jan. 8th-14th. Please, complete only one ballot per person. Reviews here and elsewhere. The Pig in...
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Guessing Geisel: A Mock Geisel Blog: August 2016
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Wednesday, August 31, 2016. Pug by Ethan Long. Today's guest contributor is Elisa Gall. Elisa is the Director of Library Services at an independent school in Chicago serving children in preschool through high school. Find her on Twitter @gallbrary. Sunday, August 21, 2016. It’s time for a short but important digression from our regularly scheduled mocking. I’m here today to talk to you about diversity in children’s literature and publishing, and to promote this idea:. In 2014, the #WeNeedDiverseBooks.
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Guessing Geisel: A Mock Geisel Blog: First Mock Geisel on Guessing Geisel
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Sunday, December 18, 2016. First Mock Geisel on Guessing Geisel. Mock Awards can take many forms. All have varying levels of similarity to the committee experience, and many adhere to the criteria to the degree that they can. We’ve discussed on this blog some of the ways to adapt the mock award experience for. And in the future w e'. Ll be covering some of the ways that mock awards can serve as professional development opportunities for librarians and teachers. But we’re going to do it anyway, b. At the ...
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Guessing Geisel: A Mock Geisel Blog: November 2016
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Wednesday, November 30, 2016. Navigating the Challenging World of Reading Levels. Today's guest contributor, Danielle Jones, is a youth and teen public librarian in Portland, OR. Find her on Twitter @DanielleBookery. The Geisel Award honors the best books that children use to build their independent reading skills. One of most rewarding and hardest jobs is matching the right book, at the right time, to those readers. Some of the most common assessment systems used are:. 8226; Guided Reading. And print as...
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Guessing Geisel: A Mock Geisel Blog: September 2016
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Friday, September 30, 2016. Is That Wise, Pig? Today's guest blogger is Liesel Schmidt. Liesel is a Children's Librarian at Denver Public Library. Liesel is a former preschool teacher and she gets excited about books that get young children reading. Image from simonandschuster.com. Jan Thomas, author of such wonderfully silly books as Can You Make a Scary Face? And Is Everyone Ready for Fun? Has a new book out and it is just as goofy as one might hope. Is That Wise, Pig? This book is full of repetition, ...
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Guessing Geisel: A Mock Geisel Blog: July 2016
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Saturday, July 30, 2016. Go, Otto, Go! Image from Books.SimonandSchuster.com. Elisa Gall is today's guest contributor. She's the Director of Library Services at an independent school in Chicago serving children in preschool through high school. Find her on Twitter: @gallbrary. David Milgrim’s Go, Otto, Go! And this page from a reader of yesteryear? Image from Go, Otto, Go! By David Milgrim (photos by Elisa Gall). Those familiar with the ALSC awards will note that I can’t compare Go, Otto, Go! Is that des...
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For Those About to Mock: 2015 Contenders: A Snicker of Magic, by Natalie Lloyd
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For Those About to Mock. A Mock Newbery Blog. We're tastier than mock apple pie! Monday, April 7, 2014. 2015 Contenders: A Snicker of Magic, by Natalie Lloyd. The town of Midnight Gulch, Tennessee used to be plumb full of magic, but now all that’s left are traces – a snicker of magic here and there. When Felicity Juniper Pickle rolls into town with her family in a beat-up green van known as the Pickled Jalapeño, she’s not looking for magic, she’s looking for a place she can put down roots. In the meantim...
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Guessing Geisel: A Mock Geisel Blog: January 2017
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Friday, January 27, 2017. The Guessing Geisel Hosts Share Their Post-YMA Reactions. In this post, the three co-hosts of Guessing Geisel (Amanda, Amy, and Misti) share their thoughts and reactions to the 2017 Geisel Award winner and honor titles. I had the extreme pleasure of being in the room when the honors and winners of the 2017 Geisel Awards were announced. There was delighted applause when Pizzoli’s. Good Night, Owl, Oops, Pounce, Quick, Run! By Mike Twohy, and Milgrim’s Go, Otto, Go! I was watching...
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Guessing Geisel: A Mock Geisel Blog: Mock Geisel: First Ballot Results
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Saturday, January 7, 2017. Mock Geisel: First Ballot Results. A description of the events of the Midwinter Selection Meeting can be found on page 31 of the manual. Where describing the vote, it explains that:. 8220;There is a formula to determine the winner. A book must receive at least four first place votes at four points per vote for a total of at least 16 points. In addition, that book must have a four-point lead over the book receiving the next highest number of points.”. The titles that remain:.
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Guessing Geisel: A Mock Geisel Blog: June 2016
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Thursday, June 30, 2016. Let's Start at the Very Beginning. There’s a genre of books for children learning to read. They are usually (but not always) a certain size and shape. They are often leveled. What should we call this type of book? I often hear the term Easy Readers, which implies that these books are easy to read. They aren’t easy for the children reading them for the first time. Calling them easy diminishes the work of a new or struggling reader. Where to shelve these books? Welcome, Amanda here...
