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    Primary source photos and newspaper articles to accompany the book The William Hoy Story about William Hoy, a deaf man who played professional baseball from 1888 to 1902.

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    Tom Bober , these collections of primary sources that go with picture books that you're doing are such a great resources!  I especially appreciate the short text.  I've previously mentioned another TPS source for coordinating with literature - the TPS-Waynesburg University site Book Backdrops.   I've been using the site for several years, and notice that the URL frequently changes. 

    Great resource  Cathi Franchino ! I am a big fan of Gail Petri 's work with primary sources and literature and I believe she used the term "book backdrops" as well. Do you know if these are connected?

    I've been doing some work specifically with picture books (they fit my short library schedule) and thought I would share. I'll continue to put albums up as I clean up my lists of resources.

    I also am a big Gail Petri fan, although I am not sure of any connection between her and the Waynesburg BB program.  In fact, Gail is from my area, and in my first year as a school librarian, my District mentor arranged for me to visit her for a day, and I was blown away by the program she ran.  Ever since then I've tried to attend her presentations whenever possible and have many of the paper handouts from those.  I also use her Book Backdrops presentations posted on her LinkedIn page as references when looking for literature connections.  Wouldn't it be great to see those posted on the Network? 

    It would be great to have those resources posted on the network. It would also be great to see resources network members have built based on Gail Petri's work and or TPS Waynesburg University.  

    Using picture books and primary sources is so powerful!  I am jealous that you got to spend the day with her.  It must have been so amazing.

    The concept of Book Backdrops is a good fit across several groups here in the TPS Teachers Network:

    I have two suggestions for making Book Backdrop posts easier to find:

    1. Let's try to get into the habit of adding the tag  Book Backdrops to every post that ties picture books and primary sources together. You will see that I added the tag to  Tom Bober 's album as an example. 
    2. We now have an option to post across groups. Whenever a user posts a discussion, a link, a file, or an album that matches primary sources with books, that user can navigate to another group and attach the previously submitted content to a new post. It's an added attachment bonus you'll find right under the text box whenever you post something, and it even includes a search option so you can find your previous post title and select it. I haven't tested this new feature yet, but anyone is welcome to try it. I believe you can attach any of your own materials from the group you're currently in or from any public groups.

    In sum, the easiest way to facilitate finding more Book Backdrops is to add tags to your posts. The more challenging way is to post across multiple groups, but again, always use the tag  Book Backdrops .

    Finally, if you cannot access Book Backdrops in other groups, you may need (and want) to join them!

    Great ideas Mary! I have another album I'm working on gathering resources for. Now I'm looking forward to trying to post across groups! (and I'll use the tag too)

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