Share Book Recommendations With Your Friends, Join Book Clubs, Answer Trivia 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. There’s been a decent amount of interest from Year 9 and 10 English teachers, as well as from my team in the library. Goodreads is the best of social media. Photo source: Reading can be much more than completing a book; within Goodreads it can involve: Of course, there is more than one way to engage our students in reading.
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Reading Skills for Today's Adults Marshall Adult EducationHOME | MISSION | SCOPE AND SEQUENCE | STAFF INFORMATION |SITE SCHEDULES | TECHNOLOGYWORKFORCE | BUSINESS CONNECTION | DIRECTORY | GRANTS | RESOURCES | STUDENT LESSONS 25 new Health and Wellness Stories have been posted These new health and wellness stories were funded by the National Head Start Family Literacy Center/Sonoma State University This project was designed to create leveled reading selections that are appropriate for and valued by adult learners. These materials, combined with the research-proven strategies of repeated reading and guided oral reading, aid in building learners' fluency and comprehension skills. This project is funded in part through an EL/Civics Grant from the MN Dept. of Ed - ABE Division and mini-grant from the Minnesota Literacy Council. Your comments, questions and feedback are invited. FEEDBACK Have a question or comment?
thedaringlibrarianpresents - home 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. The 10 Points Of View, Explained. 1.91K Views 0 Likes I don't know why I love this. 10 Tips For An Effective Global Collaboration This post was co-authored by Danielle Hartman, English/Literacy Specialist, Technology Integration teacher, Burlington County Institute of Technology, NJ, USA @danielle6849 and Miriam Orlando, ESL teacher and teacher trainer, Liceo Celio-Roccati, Rovigo, Italy, EU @miriam2065 Miriam and I have both been active in global collaborations for some time now. However, this particular collaboration was the best we’ve ever participated in. We decided to analyze our project and share some tips to help you get started. Finding Global Collaboration Partners Miriam (Italy, EU): Danielle and I have been working on an awesome intercontinental/global collaboration project since February 2013. Danielle (NJ, USA): Miriam and I used ePals to find each other, but there are a variety of platforms that can be used. Getting Started Miriam: Once you have found a collaboration partner, you have to be aware of the precious educational opportunity which is opening up for your students and for yourself!
Seven Strategies to Teach Students Text Comprehension 1. Monitoring comprehension Students who are good at monitoring their comprehension know when they understand what they read and when they do not. They have strategies to "fix" problems in their understanding as the problems arise. Comprehension monitoring instruction teaches students to: Be aware of what they do understandIdentify what they do not understandUse appropriate strategies to resolve problems in comprehension 2. Metacognition can be defined as "thinking about thinking." Students may use several comprehension monitoring strategies: Identify where the difficulty occurs"I don't understand the second paragraph on page 76." 3. Graphic organizers illustrate concepts and relationships between concepts in a text or using diagrams. Regardless of the label, graphic organizers can help readers focus on concepts and how they are related to other concepts. Graphic organizers can: Here are some examples of graphic organizers: 4. Questions can be effective because they: 5. 6. 7.
AIA Drama Blog: Kick-starting the new academic year! Wow, it's been a while since my last post! But I'm back! I have been trying to shake-off the holiday mode and get back into the routine, partly because I love routines (to a certain extent), and partly because I miss the routine too! So, 2013 is a very exciting year for us in the drama classroom! During term 1, the year 6 students are studying a unit-of-work on Mime & Pantomime, which is designed to help them explore the creative potential of their bodies. The year 7 students are studying a unit-of-work on Improvisational Theatre to help them explore and harness the human 'natural abilities' to improvise and use them in drama. The academic year kicked off with an introduction to the rules, procedures and expectations in the drama class (or a refresher for the returning students), as well as an introduction to the MYP unit-of-work for the first term, particularly the Area of Interaction Focus, the Significant Concept and the MYP Unit Question.
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?
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