Extras: Video and Audio Recordings Chu’s First Day of School Trailer P. Craig Russell Presents The Graveyard Book Graphic Novel Neil Interviews Himself Fortunately, the Milk Trailer The Silver Dream Chu's Day Trailer Odd and the Frost Giants Trailer Blueberry Girl Trailer The Graveyard Book Trailer The Origins Of The Graveyard Book Coraline Movie Sneak Peek Coraline Movie Teaser Neil on MirrorMask Instructions The Sleeper and the Spindle:Neil Gaiman and Chris Riddellon collaboration The Sleeper and the Spindle:Neil and Chris on Chris’s illustrations The Sleeper and the Spindle: Chris Riddell discusses his illustrations Sweet Search 11 Alternatives to "Round Robin" (and "Popcorn") Reading Round Robin Reading (RRR) has been a classroom staple for over 200 years and an activity that over half of K-8 teachers report using in one of its many forms, such as Popcorn Reading. RRR's popularity endures, despite overwhelming criticism that the practice is ineffective for its stated purpose: enhancing fluency, word decoding, and comprehension. Cecile Somme echoes that perspective in Popcorn Reading: The Need to Encourage Reflective Practice: "Popcorn reading is one of the sure-fire ways to get kids who are already hesitant about reading to really hate reading." Facts About Round Robin Reading In RRR, students read orally from a common text, one child after another, while the rest of the class follows along in their copies of the text. Popcorn Reading: A student reads orally for a time, and then calls out "popcorn" before selecting another student in class to read. Why all the harshitude? Stigmatizes poor readers. 11 Better Approaches 1. 2. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
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The Chicago Manual of Style Online: Chicago-Style Citation Quick Guide The Chicago Manual of Style presents two basic documentation systems: (1) notes and bibliography and (2) author-date. Choosing between the two often depends on subject matter and the nature of sources cited, as each system is favored by different groups of scholars. The notes and bibliography style is preferred by many in the humanities, including those in literature, history, and the arts. This style presents bibliographic information in notes and, often, a bibliography. It accommodates a variety of sources, including esoteric ones less appropriate to the author-date system. The author-date system has long been used by those in the physical, natural, and social sciences. Aside from the use of notes versus parenthetical references in the text, the two systems share a similar style. Notes and Bibliography: Sample Citations The following examples illustrate citations using the notes and bibliography system. Book One author 1. 2. Pollan, Michael. Two or more authors 1. 2. 1. 2. 1. 2. 1. 2. 1.
Great reading strategies: ‘First lines’ for developing comprehension Throughout the summer I’ve been posting a series of posts looking at communicative classroom reading strategies. I’ve started each post with this little bit of blurb explaining my thinking behind the series, as well as what you can expect to find in each post. Although this is now the sixth post of the series, please feel free to read on (you should probably skip this section if you’ve read my previous entries in the series). As far as I’m concerned, when implementing strategy training of this kind in your classes teacher demonstration, modeling, and follow-up independent practice are all critical factors for success. Each strategy in this series of posts will most likely include most – if not all – of the following: Advice on how to implement the strategy in your classesExamplesPutting it into practice with second language learnersThe supporting research / recommended further readingDownloadable templates will also be available for most of the strategies we’ll look at here on the blog.