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List of Reading Resources that include The Rag Coat
Scholastic Rag Coat Lesson Plan
Strategies That Work: Teaching Comprehension for Understanding and Engagement by Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis
Yardsticks: Children in the Classroom Ages 4-14 by Chip Wood
Honey for a Child's Heart by Gladys Hunt
Reading with Meaning: Teaching Comprehension in the Primary Grades by Debbie Miller
Core Curriculum Guide for Minna's Patchwork Coat - grades 2-7
A Blog of the Process for Minna's Patchwork Coat
Minna's Patchwork Coat Interview
http://www.fromthemixedupfiles.com/2015/11/meet-illustrator-lauren-a-mills/
About Lauren Mills
Lauren A. Mills has won national acclaim as a book author and illustrator and as a sculptor and painter. She was greatly influenced by the 19th century artists, especially the Pre-Raphaelites for their focus of the natural world as well as their sense of mythical wonder. The fourth of five children, Mills grew up playing and pretending in the woods of Connecticut and spent her summers at her grandparents' in West Virginia.
In her teens she moved to Oregon and Minnesota and later lived in Colorado, California and Massachusetts where she resides now. She and her husband, author/illustrator Dennis Nolan collaborated on several projects, most notable, their daughter...read more