Amanda Zieba Learning with the Word Nerd | First Chapter Friday The Lost Year Video Ch 1 Read Aloud Aideo for Middle Schoolers @AmandaZiebatheWordNerd | Uploaded December 2023 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Friday, December 29, 2023 - We did it! Another FULL YEAR of First Chapter Friday read aloud videos! The Lost Year by Katherine Marsh is my last FCF of the year, and marks 3 full years of weekly videos. I am so grateful you continue to listen in and hope that you are sucked into this high stakes story about cousins, famine and secrets that takes place across 2 continents and 4 generations. I devoured it in 3 days on my couch and am hopefully you’ll love it too. Pssst - Throughout this video there’s a mystery quote sprinkled one word at a time. As you listen, write it down word by word and then stay to the end to see if you’ve got it down correctly.
Don’t forget, to celebrate all of this, I’m giving away 3 classroom libraries containing all 52 books I’ve added to my channel this year (and more great prizes too!) To learn more and enter, click here: amandazieba.com/2023classroomlibrarygiveaway
Book Blurb: Thirteen-year-old Matthew is miserable. His journalist dad is stuck overseas indefinitely, and his mom has moved in his one-hundred-year-old great-grandmother to ride out the pandemic, adding to his stress and isolation. But when Matthew finds a tattered black-and-white photo in his great-grandmother’s belongings, he discovers a clue to a hidden chapter of her past, one that will lead to a life-shattering family secret. Set in alternating timelines that connect the present-day to the 1930s and the US to the USSR, Katherine Marsh’s latest novel sheds fresh light on the Holodomor—the horrific famine that killed millions of Ukrainians, and which the Soviet government covered up for decades. An incredibly timely story of family, survival, and sacrifice, inspired by Marsh’s own family history, The Lost Year is perfect for fans of Ruta Sepetys' Between Shades of Gray and Alan Gratz's Refugee. Longlisted, National Book Awards, 2023
Want to increase student engagement? Try these First Chapter Friday worksheets, with both generic response and novel specific sheets for each video in this playlist! Grab them here → teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Read-Aloud-Novel-Study-Graphic-Organizer-Reading-Response-Journal-2022-7587992
Get your copy of The Lost Year at your school library, local indie bookstore or here → amzn.to/41BbfDy
Take a look at all of the other First Chapter Friday videos in this playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpVe6VlpCwJZCLWm7CR4yX93l3xN2conB
Wanna say thanks and fuel future creations? Buy me a virtual cup of coffee for making this (and many other!) amazing free video resources for your classroom. Click here → ko-fi.com/amandazieba_thewordnerd
Scoop up a FREE motivational quote poster set for your classroom here: amandazieba.com/teachersignup and then check out all of my educational resources in my virtual city WordNerdopolis’ school! amandazieba.com/school.
And finally, don't forget to SUBSCRIBE this channel for more great videos from the Word Nerd! Just click here: bit.ly/wordnerdonyoutube
** The videos in this First Chapter Friday Playlist were created in the spirit of: helping teachers and students find high quality and engaging books to read, promoting amazing authors and great books, and celebrating stories
Each video in this playlist features a book chosen by Amanda Zieba based on its literary merit, thematic/curriculum connection, or simply because she loves it and thinks you will too. All commentary and facts shared about the book and author were also researched/gathered by Amanda. Books were purchased by Amanda from Birdy’s Bookstore, Barnes and Noble or Amazon, unless otherwise stated. These videos are recorded and edited from Amanda’s home office in Wisconsin, USA. **
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Friday, December 29, 2023 - We did it! Another FULL YEAR of First Chapter Friday read aloud videos! The Lost Year by Katherine Marsh is my last FCF of the year, and marks 3 full years of weekly videos. I am so grateful you continue to listen in and hope that you are sucked into this high stakes story about cousins, famine and secrets that takes place across 2 continents and 4 generations. I devoured it in 3 days on my couch and am hopefully you’ll love it too. Pssst - Throughout this video there’s a mystery quote sprinkled one word at a time. As you listen, write it down word by word and then stay to the end to see if you’ve got it down correctly.
Don’t forget, to celebrate all of this, I’m giving away 3 classroom libraries containing all 52 books I’ve added to my channel this year (and more great prizes too!) To learn more and enter, click here: amandazieba.com/2023classroomlibrarygiveaway
Book Blurb: Thirteen-year-old Matthew is miserable. His journalist dad is stuck overseas indefinitely, and his mom has moved in his one-hundred-year-old great-grandmother to ride out the pandemic, adding to his stress and isolation. But when Matthew finds a tattered black-and-white photo in his great-grandmother’s belongings, he discovers a clue to a hidden chapter of her past, one that will lead to a life-shattering family secret. Set in alternating timelines that connect the present-day to the 1930s and the US to the USSR, Katherine Marsh’s latest novel sheds fresh light on the Holodomor—the horrific famine that killed millions of Ukrainians, and which the Soviet government covered up for decades. An incredibly timely story of family, survival, and sacrifice, inspired by Marsh’s own family history, The Lost Year is perfect for fans of Ruta Sepetys' Between Shades of Gray and Alan Gratz's Refugee. Longlisted, National Book Awards, 2023
Want to increase student engagement? Try these First Chapter Friday worksheets, with both generic response and novel specific sheets for each video in this playlist! Grab them here → teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Read-Aloud-Novel-Study-Graphic-Organizer-Reading-Response-Journal-2022-7587992
Get your copy of The Lost Year at your school library, local indie bookstore or here → amzn.to/41BbfDy
Take a look at all of the other First Chapter Friday videos in this playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpVe6VlpCwJZCLWm7CR4yX93l3xN2conB
Wanna say thanks and fuel future creations? Buy me a virtual cup of coffee for making this (and many other!) amazing free video resources for your classroom. Click here → ko-fi.com/amandazieba_thewordnerd
Scoop up a FREE motivational quote poster set for your classroom here: amandazieba.com/teachersignup and then check out all of my educational resources in my virtual city WordNerdopolis’ school! amandazieba.com/school.
And finally, don't forget to SUBSCRIBE this channel for more great videos from the Word Nerd! Just click here: bit.ly/wordnerdonyoutube
** The videos in this First Chapter Friday Playlist were created in the spirit of: helping teachers and students find high quality and engaging books to read, promoting amazing authors and great books, and celebrating stories
Each video in this playlist features a book chosen by Amanda Zieba based on its literary merit, thematic/curriculum connection, or simply because she loves it and thinks you will too. All commentary and facts shared about the book and author were also researched/gathered by Amanda. Books were purchased by Amanda from Birdy’s Bookstore, Barnes and Noble or Amazon, unless otherwise stated. These videos are recorded and edited from Amanda’s home office in Wisconsin, USA. **
#wordnerd #mglit #readingrecommendations #amandazieba #firstchapterfriday #teachertube #ukranianrefugee #ukraine #cousins #middlegradebooks #readaloud #katharinemarsh #thelostyear #covidyear #booksaboutcousins #4generations #familysecret #holodomor #ussr #stalin #historicalfiction #familysaga #lostyearbook
