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Your district's students can learn about authors from TeachingBooks.net. Nancy Pelser-Borowicz, district library media specialist for Orange County Public Schools in Fla., is a self-professed Teachingbooks guru guru (g`r, gr` , having accessed more than 40,000 of the site's resources since April 2005. "The site has activities for all grade levels," she says. "There are zillions of interviews and about 40 of them feature video clips A short video presentation.  of authors or illustrators This is an alphabetical list of illustrators.

It may never be fully completed or, depending on its its nature, it may be that it can never be completed. However, new and revised entries in the list are always welcome.
 speaking about their books." The site also has teacher projects, book guides and discussion questions, book excerpts and thematic the·mat·ic  
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1. Of, relating to, or being a theme: a scene of thematic importance.

2.
 book lists. Unlimited access for a single school costs around $325; district access runs around $20 per school.

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Title Annotation:TeachingBooks.net; from Orange County Public Schools
Author:Ullman, Ellen
Publication:District Administration
Article Type:Brief article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Mar 1, 2006
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