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Wednesday, November 19
More in Our Katie & Kimble Activity Corner!
by
Linda Thieman
on Wed 19 Nov 2008 05:15 AM CST
More in Our Katie & Kimble Activity Corner!
 Here are some more fun things to do in our Katie & Kimble Activity Corner!
You will find the Katie & Kimble Activity Corner on the right sidebar of the Katie & Kimble blog.
Learn the Kimble, Kimble chant here! Then make up a hand-clapping game to play with your friends as you chant!
Another fun thing to do is read stories about the author of Katie
& Kimble -- that's me! These are true stories. One is
from when I was 7 and it's a funny story about my dog. One is from when I was 8 and it's about my dad and a funny trick we played with a piano! The third one is from when I was 9 and we lived across the street from a baseball player. That was a lot of fun!
Listen to Kimble's song or the song that Mr. Russell sings in Katie & Kimble: The Magic Wish!
Or download free Katie & Kimble word puzzles. There are three puzzles for each of the first two books.
There are many more things to do in the Katie & Kimble Activity
Corner. Just look over on the right sidebar and you'll see them!
Have fun!
Fun Katie & Kimble Hint: Click on the author's name at the top of any post and learn all about her (including how to pronounce her name)!
Katie & Kimble: A Ghost Story (Book 1 in the series) and Katie & Kimble: The Magic Wish (Book 2 in the series) are available here:
Paperback version: $5.95
Click here to order Katie & Kimble: A Ghost Story!
Click here to order Katie & Kimble: The Magic Wish (Book 2)!
Instant download version: $2.48
Click here to order the instant download editions.
[Reading Level 3, 280L, for ages 7-10]
Nine-year-old Katie Russell and her family look
normal. But the Russells don't know they are living with Kimble,
the ghost of a ten-year-old girl. That is, until Katie discovers Kimble
and the two of them set off on a quest to find out what happened to
Kimble's mother.
Tuesday, November 18
Enter the Katie & Kimble Book Giveaway!
by
Linda Thieman
on Tue 18 Nov 2008 05:45 AM CST
Enter the Katie & Kimble Book Giveaway!
 November, 2008
Katie & Kimble
Contest Giveaway
Enter the Katie & Kimble: A Ghost Story
book giveaway. We're holding a drawing to giveaway 12 copies of this little gem of a book. You can enter as often as you like through November 30,
2008. Click here to enter!
Check back here on the Katie & Kimble Blog the first week of December,
2008, to see the list of winners. We'll publish first names only
plus hometowns and state or province. Open to residents of the
U.S. and Canada.
[A Chapter Book at Reading Level 3, for ages 7-10, 280L]
Nine-year-old Katie Russell and her family LOOK like a normal family. But the Russells don't know they are living with Kimble, the ghost of a ten-year-old girl. That is, until Katie discovers Kimble and the two of them set off on a quest to find out what happened to Kimble's mother.
This month, we are giving away 12 copies of Katie & Kimble: A Ghost Story,
a chapter book for ages 7-10. The book is also suitable for
reading aloud to six year olds. The story is funny and exciting,
but not fear-based and not too intense for the six through ten
set. However, it has a very high interest level and is quite a
sophisticated story, one that will keep the older kids engrossed, as well.
Katie & Kimble: A Ghost Story is the first book in a chapter book series. The second book, Katie & Kimble: The Magic Wish, is also available.
1) To enter the contest, fill in the form here.
2) You may enter as often as you like.
3) Contest dates run from November 4, 2008, through November 30, 2008.
Monday, November 17
Send a Free Katie & Kimble e-Card Today!
by
Linda Thieman
on Mon 17 Nov 2008 03:54 AM CST
Send a Free Katie & Kimble e-Card!
Now
you can send a Katie & Kimble e-Card to all your friends.
It's free and there are no pop-ups or ads. AND we don't collect
your email address, either! It's nothing but FUN!
Look on the right sidebar of the Katie & Kimble blog. There's
a big orange box. Click on "Send a Katie & Kimble Greeting
Card." That will take you to another web page where you can design
your own greeting card.
You can choose from 12 Katie & Kimble pictures, 12 background colors, and 9 songs! That's right—you can add a song to your e-Card! Give it a try!
If someone sends YOU an e-Card, you can come back to the Katie &
Kimble blog to pick it up. You'll receive an email telling you
what your e-Card number is. Then you enter it into the gold box
on the sidebar and click on GO. It's so easy!
If you send a card to someone and they don't receive it, please ask
them to look in their spam folder. It's probably there, but it's
NOT spam!
Give it a try!
Linda
Katie & Kimble: A Ghost Story (Book 1 in the series) and Katie & Kimble: The Magic Wish (Book 2 in the series) are available here:
Paperback version: $5.95
Click here to order Katie & Kimble: A Ghost Story!
Click here to order Katie & Kimble: The Magic Wish (Book 2)!
Instant download version: $2.48
Click here to order the instant download editions.
[Reading Level 3, 280L, for ages 7-10]
Nine-year-old Katie Russell and her family look
normal. But the Russells don't know they are living with Kimble,
the ghost of a ten-year-old girl. That is, until Katie discovers Kimble
and the two of them set off on a quest to find out what happened to
Kimble's mother.
Sunday, November 16
Teachers and Homeschoolers- FREE Katie & Kimble Materials Now Available!
by
Linda Thieman
on Sun 16 Nov 2008 03:23 AM CST
Teachers & Homeschoolers- FREE Katie & Kimble Materials Now Available!
Hey,
teachers and homeschoolers! Free Katie & Kimble
classroom/ homeschool materials are now available to download from the
Katie & Kimble Blog!
As of August 15, 2008, I have uploaded the full set of brand new Activity Packets that accompany
Katie & Kimble: A Ghost Story (280L) and the full set of new Activity Packets for Katie & Kimble: The Magic Wish (290L).
NOW the free downloadable, printable Awards Package for each book is included right in the file with the Activity Packets. Readers can mark their progress with color-in ribbons!
Answer Keys are now available, too. See below.
Each Activity Packet covers two chapters and
contains 7 Activity Pages (reading skills, word skills, comprehension,
apply text to self, writing, etc.).
The first page of each Activity Packet is a
Table of Contents/Cover page for the packet. Teachers and homeschoolers can
decide which Activity Pages to use in each packet, and kids can check
off each Activity Page on the Contents page as they complete it (very
motivating, as they can see their progress). The
Contents page/Cover sheet also contains pre-reading activities (predictions) for the
chapters that follow. These Katie & Kimble Activity Packets are
available to download free of charge.
As some of you know, I used to be an English teacher (ESL). I also
used to create materials on a regular basis, both for my own classes
and for the language programs that employed me. So, it just follows
naturally that I would wish to create some materials to go along with Katie & Kimble: A Ghost Story and Katie & Kimble: The Magic Wish.
These materials are RL3 (third grade). As my guide, I have used the
requirements from two Iowa school systems for reading skills in their
third grade classrooms and the national standards for third grade. Plus, I've had the input of a wonderful third grade teacher, Mrs. Juli Dodd, MA, who specializes in reading.
I have Reading/Writing Activities and Class/Group Activities,
including prompts for writing reports on things related to the Katie
& Kimble story. I've also created topics and prompts to go with my
Childhood Stories that you will find on the right sidebar under the
Katie & Kimble Activity Corner.
KK--ClassroomActivities.pdf
You can download all the materials free of charge below and make copies
for your own personal use or for classroom use. And don't forget the
free downloadable coloring pages!
Download the pdf of Activity Packets 1A-1C and Activity Packets 1D-1F for Katie & Kimble: A Ghost Story here:
KK1--ActivityPackets-1A-1C.pdf
KK1--ActivityPackets-1D-1F.pdf
Download the pdf of Activity Packets 2A-2C and Activity Packets 2D-2F for Katie & Kimble: The Magic Wish here:KK2--ActivityPackets-2A-2C.pdf
KK2--ActivityPackets-2D-2F.pdf
Answer Keys
KK--AnswerKeys-Books1and2.pdf
Katie & Kimble Awards Package
This Awards Package has been
designed to accompany the Activity Packets for Katie & Kimble: A
Ghost Story and Katie & Kimble: The Magic Wish.
The file, the Katie & Kimble
Awards Package, consists of one four-inch ribbon to be awarded to the
reader upon the completion of each Activity Packet. The ribbons
are designed to be printed out and work equally well in color or in
black and white/grayscale.
Suggested Use
When the reader has finished
Activity Packet 1A, for example—the “1” meaning Book 1 and the “A”
meaning the first packet—give the reader the ribbon for packet
1A. The reader can color in the ribbon, cut it out and write her or his name
on the blank ribbon. The reader can then collect the ribbons, pin
them or tape them up on the wall or on a bulletin board, and watch her
or his progress grow. At the end of each of the Katie &
Kimble books, the reader is to be awarded one of the bigger, six-inch
ribbons to signify having completed the entire book and all six of the
Activity Packets.
The printable ribbons can be downloaded here. There are six small ribbons per book and one large ribbon per book.
KK--AwardsPackage.pdf
Fun Katie & Kimble Hint: On the sidebars, click on the yellow stripes for a little surprise or two!
Katie & Kimble: A Ghost Story (Book 1 in the series) and Katie & Kimble: The Magic Wish (Book 2 in the series) are available here:
Paperback version: $5.95
Click here to order Katie & Kimble: A Ghost Story!
Click here to order Katie & Kimble: The Magic Wish (Book 2)!
Instant download version: $2.48
Click here to order the instant download editions.
[Reading Level 3, 280L, for ages 7-10]
Nine-year-old Katie Russell and her family look
normal. But the Russells don't know they are living with Kimble,
the ghost of a ten-year-old girl. That is, until Katie discovers Kimble
and the two of them set off on a quest to find out what happened to
Kimble's mother.
Saturday, November 15
Lexile Measures for Katie & Kimble Books are Here!
by
Linda Thieman
on Sat 15 Nov 2008 02:16 PM CST
The Lexile® Measures for the Katie & Kimble Books are Here!
The Lexile® measures for the Katie & Kimble books are now available.
The Lexile Framework® for Reading is a scientific approach to measuring reading ability and the difficulty of reading materials. The Lexile Framework includes a Lexile® measure and the Lexile scale. A Lexile measure represents both the difficulty of a text, such as a book or article, and an individual’s reading ability. Lexiles are expressed as numeric measures followed by an “L” (e.g., 850L), and are placed on the Lexile scale. The Lexile scale is a developmental scale for measuring reader ability and text difficulty, ranging from below 200L for beginning readers and beginning-reader materials to above 1700L for advanced readers and materials.
Manage your students’ reading comprehension
Lexile measures allow you to manage comprehension. Matching a reader’s Lexile measure with a text with the same Lexile measure leads to an expected 75-percent comprehension rate—not too difficult to be frustrating, but difficult enough to be challenging and to encourage reading progress. You can further adjust anticipated comprehension simply by choosing more or less difficult texts within a student’s Lexile range, which spans 50L above and 100L below his or her Lexile measure.
Download Lexile Measures in the Classroom here.
Katie & Kimble: A Ghost Story (Bk 1) = 280L
Katie & Kimble: The Magic Wish (Bk 2) = 290L
MetaMetrics, Lexile, Lexile Framework, Lexile Analyzer, the Lexile symbol, Quantile, Quantile Framework and the Quantile symbol are trademarks or U.S. registered trademarks of MetaMetrics, Inc. The names of other companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners. © 2007 MetaMetrics, Inc. All rights reserved. Used with permission.
Katie & Kimble: A Ghost Story (Book 1 in the series) and Katie & Kimble: The Magic Wish (Book 2 in the series) are available here:
Paperback version: $5.95
Click here to order Katie & Kimble: A Ghost Story!
Click here to order Katie & Kimble: The Magic Wish (Book 2)!
Instant download version: $2.48
Click here to order the instant download editions.
[Reading Level 3, 280L, for ages 7-10]
Nine-year-old Katie Russell and her family look
normal. But the Russells don't know they are living with Kimble,
the ghost of a ten-year-old girl. That is, until Katie discovers Kimble
and the two of them set off on a quest to find out what happened to
Kimble's mother.
Friday, November 14
Katie & Kimble: Twinkle's Song -Twinkle, Twinkle, Great Big Dog!
by
Linda Thieman
on Fri 14 Nov 2008 10:37 AM CST
Twinkle's Song: Twinkle, Twinkle, Great Big Dog!
 One of our Katie & Kimble readers wondered if Twinkle had a song. Here's the answer!
Twinkle sort of does have a song! Here is what I am thinking. Well, have you read the Kimble, Kimble chant? It's over on the right sidebar and also on the last page of the Katie & Kimble books.
Well, this chant almost fits into the melody of "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star." I especially like the part where it goes, "Twinkle, Twinkle, great big dog!"
So, I guess, at this point, Twinkle's song is "Twinkle, Twinkle, Great Big Dog!" I thought that was kind of fun!
Here is how the Kimble, Kimble chant fits into the melody of "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star." You CHANT the first two lines: Kimble, Kimble is a ghost. Katie, Katie loves her most!
Then you can either keep chanting, or you can start singing, "Twinkle, Twinkle, great big dog." And if you start singing there, the rest of the chant fits into the song perfectly! I did not plan that, so I think it's pretty funny!
Give it a try!
Fun Katie & Kimble Hint: On the sidebars, click on the yellow stripes to hear Twinkle barking!
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