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How A Teacher Brings Laughter to Story Time with Frances Mackay
Get ready to laugh and learn in this episode of Beyond the Book with JoAnn Dickinson, as award-winning author and longtime educator Frances Mackay shares how she turns silly ideas into powerful stories that make learning fun.
From Nate’s Noisy Nose to Baby Worries and Noisy Animal ABC, Frances explains how her teaching background inspires every page, and how she cleverly weaves in humor, emotional learning, and even STEM concepts without ever sounding “teachy.”
We dive into:
How to take a simple story idea and build in humor, SEL, or educational layers
Why self-publishing is more accessible…
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