Unabridged Podcast

Welcome to Unabridged, the podcast where teachers take on books! Every week, Sara, Jen and Ashley (shown left to right in the photo) talk books, share recommendations, and celebrate all things bookish. On our blog (see our posts below!) we share bookish faves, pub day shout-outs, show notes, and book reviews each week.

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Teaching Tidbits 16: Teaching Tools to Use on the Go

Apr 30
2 min

Teaching Tidbits 16: Teaching Tools to Use on the Go

In this Unabridged Teaching Tidbits episode, Ashley shares some teaching tools she'll be taking with her as her family prepares for their big trip. Three tools that she shares are Rocketbooks (which work with Frixion pens), games like Bananagrams, and Osmo games, which work with iPads or Kindle Fire tablets. Some specific things Ashley uses are the Fusion Rocketbook, this pack of Frixion pens, and My First Bananagrams. The Osmo kits her girls love are the Genius kit and the L

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Teaching Tidbits 13: Canva Graphic Design for Educators

Mar 19
1 min

Teaching Tidbits 13: Canva Graphic Design for Educators

In this Unabridged Episode, Ashley talks about the graphic design program Canva. She shares about the benefits of signing up for an educators' account with Canva, and she shares a few tips about using Canva to create images for various purposes as well as suggestions for how it can be used in the classroom with students. To sign up for the Educators' account with Canva, click here. For a quick slideshow with examples and more information about Canva, click here. #shownotes #t

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Teaching Tidbits 10: Incorporating Poetry into Class

Feb 5
1 min

Teaching Tidbits 10: Incorporating Poetry into Class

In this Unabridged Episode, Ashley talks about a few ways to incorporate more poetry into class routines. She talks about activities teachers can do with students to engage with poetry, and she shares a few places to access more poems including sites such as Poetry Foundation and signing up for daily emails such as the Poem-a-Day email subscription. She also mentions Billy Collins' collections curated for classroom use, Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry and 180 More: Extra

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Teaching Tidbit 7 - Hands-On Activity Book Recommendations

Dec 18, 2020
2 min

Teaching Tidbit 7 - Hands-On Activity Book Recommendations

In this Unabridged Teaching Tidbits episode, Ashley talks about incorporating more hands-on activities into the classroom (or at home), and she shares three of her favorite books for making it easier to find and do activities with kids. Ashley shares two books by Asia Citro, creator of Fun at Home with Kids. Ashley talks about 150+ Screen-Free Activities for Kids: The Very Best and Easiest Playtime Activities from FunAtHomeWithKids.com! and The Curious Kid's Science Book: 100

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Teaching Tidbits 4: Picture Books that Encourage Mindfulness

Nov 6, 2020
1 min

Teaching Tidbits 4: Picture Books that Encourage Mindfulness

In this Unabridged Teaching Tidbits episode, Ashley shares two books that encourage mindfulness in children. Ashley talks about Susan Verde and Peter H Reynolds's I Am Peace: A Book of Mindfulness (which is one of the I Am... books; this series encourages mindfulness and compassion, the latest of which came out in September and is called I Am One) and Brendan Wenzel's A Stone Sat Still. If you're looking to get started with the I Am books, here is a good boxed set of three of

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Teaching Tidbits 2: Technology during the Time of Virtual Teaching with Ashley

Oct 9, 2020
1 min

Teaching Tidbits 2: Technology during the Time of Virtual Teaching with Ashley

In this Unabridged Teaching Tidbits episode, Ashley talks about some tips for surviving the trials and tribulations of using technology during the era of virtual teaching. She builds off of what Jen shared in Teaching Tidbit #1 about her experience with virtual teaching so far (you can listen here if you missed Jen's episode!), and Ashley talks about a few things that have helped her navigate technology during this time. #shownotes #ownvoices #teachingtidbits #teachers #teac

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Welcome - Introduction and Overview

Jan 22, 2020
2 min

Welcome - Introduction and Overview

Just getting started with Unabridged Podcast? Welcome! We're Ashley, Jen, and Sara, and we are teachers and podcasters who are passionate about books. We have four kinds of posts here on our blog. On Mondays, we post about our Bookish Faves, on Tuesdays we do Pub Day Shout-outs, on Wednesdays our episodes drop, and on Fridays, we post book reviews. (Be on the lookout on Thursdays, too; we sometimes have an extra post then!) There are many ways to connect with us! In addition

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