Activities for Children's Book Week, 2013
We're getting close to that time of year in Australia when all who love reading and children's books have a huge celebration known as Children's Book Week. School and public libraries will be offering all sorts of activities and fun according to this year's theme: Read across the Universe. The dates for Children's Book Week Australia 2013 are: Saturday 17 – Friday 23 August. To help in your celebrations, I offer a googol of goodies! 1. 2. 3. In keeping with the Read across the Universe theme, this week might make a great time to nudge your kids towards wider reading. If you're looking for one fantastic creative thing to do with your kids this year, co-create a book with a Universe/Space theme at Storybird. Photographs can make amazing prompts for storytelling. CHALLENGES FOR KIDS These are extra to the free PDF activity booklet I described in 2 (above.) * Use Brainy Box to collect the CBCA's short-listed books that YOU would like to see win awards. * Think you know a lot about the moon?
Book Trailers for Readers - 2013 2014 Sunshine State Readers
Link to Schooltube versions of each trailer here.Click On The Book Cover- or scroll below for --- The SSYRA Books are the Book Battle Books in Florida. All 15 books introduced with Frida and Kafka at the 2013 2014 Sunshine State Award Book Ceremony.Past Winners--------------Back to Home- -------- Downloadable PDF on 2013 2014 SSYRA ----- SSYRA AWARD Books Home Page --- MENU HEREBLOG ABOUT THE BOOKS HERE This Wikispace is designed and monitored byMichelle Harclerode, MLIS
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Classroom/Literacy Support teacher Kristy Kilpatrick and I (Librarian/Technology Teacher) piloted book trailers this year and had great success with it. Kristy's grade 6 students created a book trailer for a picture book and her grade 7 students created a book trailer for a novel. We have ironed out most of the glitches for the project. This page is a combination of resources, ideas, handouts/graphic organizers and lessons to help you and your students create booktrailers.The students used Windows Movie Maker to make their trailers, and with two blocks a week it took us two months to complete. The project is a good way to assess reading comprehension. a) What is a book trailer and how is it different than a book talk? This is a good question! b) Watch professional, teacher created, and student created book trailers and have students evaluate them. As an introduction to the concept of booktrailers, watch the examples below with your class. Examples of professional book trailers Pre Planning
Creating a reading community – Goodreads
Encouraging young people to read has never been harder – on the one hand. Recess and lunchtimes at our school attest to a full-to-bursting library, but on closer inspection our boys are socialising around the games on their ipads. On the other hand, the technology we sometimes blame for a drop in an interest in literature could also become our saving grace in bringing the passion back in reading. Photo source: This year I’m keen to experiment with Goodreads as a platform for reading, sharing and discussing literature. Goodreads is the best of social media. Photo source: Reading can be much more than completing a book; within Goodreads it can involve: Melbourne High School is full of boys who respond to being stretched and challenged. Some teachers have said that they enjoy the competition aspect of Premier’s Reading Challenge. Like this:
Videos for Kids
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How many minutes can our school read in a week?
August 10, 2013 by smotlrcblog · 8 Comments · Uncategorized The countdown is on to celebrate The Reading Hour on Saturday, August 24th. Last year we had lots of fun wearing our pajamas to school for The Reading Hour. This year we have a much bigger challenge…. If we add up the minutes everyone at our school reads at home and at school for a week what would the total number of minutes be??? Are YOU ready for our Reading Hour Challenge? We will be reading: Saturday, August 17th – Saturday, August 24th All you need to do is your usual reading and then record the number of minutes you read. You will receive a sheet to record your reading and you can also print it from here if you need to Student Reading Minutes How many minutes will YOU read? How many minutes will your CLASS read? How many minutes will our SCHOOL read? Tags: Reading·Reading Hour
Ten Ways to Cultivate a Love of Reading in Students
As a teacher, I was obsessed with cultivating a love of reading in my students. I love to read, loved it as a kid too. I'm equally compelled to ensure that my own child loves reading -- and he does. I well aware that I'm on a mission -- but I also know it's a worthy one! Here are ten suggestions for how any teacher, teaching any subject can participate in this mission, and how parents and administrators can help. Read. There's so much more we can all do -- from the superintendent to the classroom teacher, the custodian to the parent's association. Teaches, how do you cultivate a love of reading?
The 10 Rights Of A Reader
The 90-Second History Of Education 9.93K Views 0 Likes Well here's an insanely detailed infographic to peruse. It's the history of education and details the past, present, and future. The 10 Points Of View, Explained. 1.91K Views 0 Likes I don't know why I love this.
