Orca Publishers get teachers. As a teacher myself, I appreciate that. Besides offering a fantastic catalogue for readers and great teacher guides for educators, they’ve launched Text2Reader, an online magazine for teachers packed with resources, lesson ideas and rubrics around their award-winning books.

In their words:

Text2Reader offers high-quality reading selections from award-winning books and engaging activities to help your students make meaning from what they read. And for you? We’ve packaged a boatload of easy-to-use, teacher-created comprehension exercises, reading and writing activities, assessments and opportunities for enrichment—all directly tied to ELA learning outcomes.

And for a limited time, you can download the September 2011 issue for free. And best of all, that issue features lesson ideas around my graphic novel Food Fight.

So, if you’re scrambling for one last language arts lesson before the kids escape for summer, check it out and think about getting a subscription for next school year.  When September rolls around (and it will) you’ll be glad you did.