The first bundle, titled “Teaching with Rabbit Ears: 'How the Leopard Got His Spots',”* is designed, in part, to provide substitute teachers with engaging and easy-to-implement lessons that ensure meaningful instruction continues in your absence. Best of all, each lesson includes an extension activity that requires your students to apply the skills they've practiced together to the Silent Sustained Reading book they've selected for themselves.
If, like The Sustained Reader, you've become immune to all student-borne bacteria, you'll be happy to know these lessons are also perfect for those crazy days before a holiday as well as that occasional day when you just want your students to hear a different voice. (Great for home-school use, too!)
Each "Teaching with Rabbit Ears" lesson is intended for use with a Rabbit Ears picture book and CD set, all of which are available, new and used, at Amazon.com and often at Half-Price Books. Because of the extremely high quality of Rabbit Ears products, most school librarians will be happy to purchase them for campus-wide access. Given her book hoarding tendencies, though, The Sustained Reader never felt much inclined to share such academic treasures, nor would she have wanted to leave them behind should she transfer to a different campus. So, she bought them for herself, loaning them out only very occasionally to her dearest and most desperate friends; to this day, her extensive Rabbit Ears collection has proven to be among the most useful purchases she ever made as a teacher.
Throat a little scratchy? Crazy-making holiday coming up? There's no time like the present to prepare for the future. Go to TeachersPayTeachers.com and look for The Sustained Reader brand. You'll be happy you did -- and so will your substitute!
*Here's your direct link to TeachersPayTeachers.com: Teaching with Rabbit Ears: "How the Leopard Got His Spots"