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My dearest sir! I hope you are well. We have "met" in the past through our correspondence and you actually video chatted with my class several years ago. I had told you how I had been using your "My Teacher is an Alien" series in my classroom for what has to be 3 decades now. After having to use a godawful reading curriculum set (that we, thankfully have since gotten rid of), I just received permission to use that series in my classroom again as my official reading for the curriculum. I already have 25 of each of the books, but now as I am teaching 2 classes my school is kindly purchasing a second set of each book. I am excited to be using these books again. I had already created materials in the past and now have a whole catalog of necessary resources to support my newest foray into using these books again. Since I teach science as well, much of the science fiction you offer in these novels will give my students food for thought. Even though they were not used as curriculum these past years, I continued to read them and the children enjoyed as much as my past students have and we discussed the science fictions aspect such as the transcendental elevator and the URAT. We've have some fun conversations about those, I have to tell you! I can't wait to start this new journey with my students in September! Thank you for such a wonderful series of thought provoking books!
Reply by Bruce Coville
Hi, Jeannine -
Many thanks for this delightful message! I used to be a teacher myself, and created a novel-based reading curriculum for my classroom that was soooo much more effective than the basal readers. It thrills me to my toes to know that another teacher is using my own books in the same way!
Please tell your students I said hello . . . and to keep their eyes on the stars!
All good wishes,
Bruce
Many thanks for this delightful message! I used to be a teacher myself, and created a novel-based reading curriculum for my classroom that was soooo much more effective than the basal readers. It thrills me to my toes to know that another teacher is using my own books in the same way!
Please tell your students I said hello . . . and to keep their eyes on the stars!
All good wishes,
Bruce