Add some sparkle to your program. Mind Sparklers Book 1 provides humor, zest, and challenging thinking activities to any primary program. Featuring a collection of activities that challenge students to develop their creative thinking skills, this book correlates each of its activities to a specific subject area. Grades K-3

The resources include an overview of each story Comprehensive guided reading discussion points Four carefully structured photocopy sheets for each story that integrate grammar, spelling and comprehension strategies Extra activities that link to other key learning areas

The lives of more than twenty-five actresses lost before their time—from Marilyn Monroe to Brittany Murphy—explored in a haunting, provocative new work by an acclaimed poet and actress. Amber Tamblyn is both an award-winning film and television actress and an acclaimed poet. As such she is deeply fascinated—and intimately familiar—with the toll exacted from young women whose lives are offered in sacrifice as starlets. The stories of these actresses, both famous and obscure-tragic stories of suicide, murder, obscurity, and other forms of death—inspired this empathic and emotionally charged collection of new poetic work. Featuring subjects from Marilyn Monroe and Frances Farmer to Dana Plato and Brittany Murphy—and paired with original artwork commissioned for the book by luminaries including David Lynch, Adrian Tomine, Marilyn Manson, and Marcel Dzama—Dark Sparkler is a surprising and provocative collection from a young artist of wide-ranging talent, culminating in an extended, confessional epilogue of astonishing candor and poetic command.

Contains a collection of cross-curriculum, critical thinking exercises for grades four through eight designed to help students develop creative thinking skills.