Five Pack Set: Time For Kids Readers - Old New Amsterdam (United States History: Beginnings) [Grade Level 4/5]

by Randi Hacker

(A pack of 5) A guided reading lesson. Time For Kids Old New Amsterdam. Activating Prior Knowledge. When you think of New York what is the first thing that comes to mind? With what you know about New York today, would you ever think of it as farmland? A god tool for a classroom setting or parents who are homeschooling multiple children.

Paperback

Published January 1, 2002

About the author

Randi Hacker is the Education Outreach Coordinator at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas, a job that is a synthesis of many of the other career tracks she has followed in her life: educator, editor, author, student of Chinese. Randi earned her BA in English Literature from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and spent the better part of her thirties working as the editor of The Electric Company Magazine published by Children's Television Workshop.

Before completing an MA in Teaching English as a Second Language from St. Michael's College in Winooski, Vermont, she dropped out of quite a number of well-respected graduate schools including the University of Michigan, UCLA and Columbia University in New York City.

In addition to her duties as Outreach Coordinator, Randi is the mother of a 12-year-old daughter adopted from China. Her Vermont-based sitcom "Windy Acres" was broadcast on Vermont Public Television and won a Boston/New England Emmy for Outstanding Entertainment Program. Her young adult novel, Life as I Knew It (Simon & Schuster, 2006) was chosen as one of the New York Public Library's Books for the Teen Age 2007. She is currently at work on her second YA novel.