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The Mailbox® and PITNF Team Up for Black History Month
We’ve teamed up with The Mailbox to offer free lesson plans and audio excerpts to Mailbox subscribers. (If you don’t already subscribe to The Mailbox, visit http://www.theeducationcenter.com/tec/ to sign up) Since February is Black History Month, we thought we’d feature some titles from Plugged-in to Nonfiction that profile some great people in Black History. Sign up for the newsletter to access lesson plans and download the accompanying audiobook excerpts to use as book hooks below.
We’re also giving away one copy of both the print book and audiobook for A Negro League Scrapbook! View the entire post to see how to win.
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2010 Plugged-in Workshop Dates AnnouncedDr. Janet Allen’s Plugged-in to Reading and Plugged-in to Nonfiction, curriculum programs published by Haights Cross Communications company Recorded Books, have announced that the 2010 Plugged-in Literacy Workshop will be held June 28–29, 2010 in Port Charlotte, Florida. Educators are encouraged to reserve seats for the workshop early.
To register for the 2010 Plugged-in to Literacy Workshop, call Recorded Books at 1-800-638-1304 x1122 or download the registration form available at http://pluggedineducators.ning.com.
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Janet Allen to Speak at ‘Reading for the Love of It’ ConferenceJanet Allen will be speaking at the 2010 Reading for the Love of It conference, held February 11-12 in Toronto, Ontario. If you’re going to the conference, be sure to check out Janet’s presentation on reading and writing nonfiction as well as those by several authors whose audiobooks are published by Plugged-in to Reading publisher Recorded Books: Rafe Esquith (author of Teach Like Your Hair’s on Fire), Even Bunting (author of Plugged-in to Reading Level 2 title Blackwater), and Patricia Polacco (author of Babushka’s Doll).
