This "booktalk-within-a-booktalk" comes from  Elizabeth Cutter , a teacher educator (and personal friend) who is working hard to support her teacher candidates with ideas for online teaching. The author, Jeannie Mobley, is a Colorado author and a former student of Elizabeth Cutter! The booktalk features Mobley's book titled Katerina's Wish, a middle level story of a coal mining camp in southern Colorado in the early 1900s. 

I know a lot of school and public librarians are offering both booktalks and read alouds online right now, but I think Beth's booktalk can serve as a model for any teacher. Furthermore, the possibilities for combining these particular books with primary sources are rich and varied. 

Sincere thanks to  Elizabeth Cutter  for saving her video to YouTube and for allowing me to share it with all of you!

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R.L. Stine's writing career began at the age of 9 when he wrote stories and jokes on an old typewriter and handed them out at school. He is now the author of more than 100 books and has sold more than 400 million copies, making him one of the best-selling children's book authors in history. He has won numerous awards and honors, including being a three-time winner of both the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Award and the Disney Adventures Kids' Choice Award for Best Book, the 2007 Thriller Writers of America Silver Bullet Award and a Children's Choices Award. Among his best known writings are the Goosebumps series (begun in 1992) and named the world's best-selling book series of all time in the 2003 Guinness Book of World Records; the Rotten School series and the Goosebumps HorrorLand series. The latest book in that series is "The Scream of the Haunted Mask" (Scholastic, August 2008). He lives in New York City.

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