Are your Spidey senses tingling? In this case, it’s nothing to fear but rather to cheer! Though Daka Hermon is the author of middle grade horror titles Hide and Seeker and Nightmare King, she’s here with ideas to get kids thinking about all the amazing insect qualities of their favorite superheroes — something that as a writer for Marvel’s Spidey and His Amazing Friends on Disney Junior and the author of National Geographic Readers: Marvel’s Spider-Man Bugs Out!, she knows a lot about.
Visit your local library to take advantage of all the fantastic activities and resources it has to offer. At the library, you can find reading challenges, writing competitions, book clubs, author talks, craft classes, maker space workshops, STEM programs, awesome book recommendations, and much, much more.
Cricket tasting, habitat building, and “hive” pollinating? Learn from the great implementation ideas that resident engagement specialists in education from Affordable Homes & Communities (AHC) in Arlington, Virginia developed over the summer while bringing books and Bug Buddies to their K-5 summer campers.
Teaching kids to identify text structure is a really good idea. However, focusing those efforts on how the content is structured will usually be more beneficial than on the common rhetorical structures.
