One Book, One School: Building Community with Shared Text Some time ago I had the opportunity to read an early copy of R.J. Palacio’s debut novel, Wonder . I’d heard about it through friends and eagerly anticipated reading it. The book took my breath away. The next spring brought opportunities to meet the author, talk about the book with colleagues, and read it to my class. with my fifth graders was amazing. When given the choice between being right or being kind, choose kind. I knew then that the book had touched the students. throughout the year. As summer began I heard about the movement Random House and R.J. When recommending Wonder to my mom this summer, I told her that my mission was for everyone in our town to read this book. With the start of the school year just around the corner, I scheduled a lunch with my school’s librarian. With the idea of sharing one book with the entire school, we began running through questions and discussing ideas. ? Another possible tie-in is our Family Reading Night this fall.
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Publishes Literacy Resources and Children's Books for Kids of All Ages Literacy | National Literacy and Numeracy Week 2013 Get involved in National Literacy and Numeracy Week in 2013. Choose one of the options and get started with one of the activities. Whatever you choose to do, you will find lots of support right here just follow the links. A Poem In Your Pocket Encourage your students to discover poetry through the ‘A Poem In Your Pocket’ activity. Once written, students can carry their poem in their pocket and take it out at any time to read to classmates, teachers and visitors. For inspiration, students can look to this year’s book selected for Read for Australia, Herman and Rosie by Gus Gordon. This year the website features resources and templates for writing poetry to help you provide your students with ideas, tips and support to take part in this activity. Depending on the age of your students, poems can be written independently, in small groups or in pairs. Entry into the prize draw is closed for 2013. Planning checklist for Read for Australia Planning for Other Activities
Questioning That Deepens Comprehension Editor's note: This post is co-authored by Nancy Frey, a Professor of Literacy in Educational Leadership at San Diego State University and a credentialed special educator, reading specialist, and administrator. Questions are a common way for teachers to check for understanding, right? The answer we’re looking for is "yes." Who hasn't questioned a group of students to determine whether or not they understood the content? Unfortunately, not all questions are created equally. What does the text say? What does the text say? The questions in this category require students to think literally about the text. The amount of time that teachers spend at the literal level will vary based on student responses. Questions at this level could include: What is the relationship between the narrator and the main character? How does the text work? When students have a grasp of the text at the literal level, we move to the structural level. For example, questions at the structural level could include:
ALA | AASL Resource Guides for School Library Media Program Development Topics beginning with:A | B | C | E | F | I | L | M | N | P | R | S | T | W These web-based guides comprise a working bibliography of resources gathered by AASL staff and members to assist us in answering the many requests for information about school libraries that we receive throughout the year. The requests for information come not only from school librarians, but also from principals, parents, charter school organizers, library paraprofessionals, government officials, and college instructors. Books, journal articles, Web sites, and other media are included. See our "Selection Policy and Review Process" for details. The print publications are from several publishers and their appearance on this bibliography should not be taken as a recommendation to purchase. The items are arranged alphabetically by frequently used topics in the professional literature. Access (see Intellectual Freedom) Achievement (see Student Achievement) Acquisitions (see Collection Development) [back to top] Budget
The World Almanac Writers Courses Workshops Classes Training Writing Seminars Sydney : NSW Writers Centre 25 Reading Strategies That Work In Every Content Area 25 Reading Strategies That Work In Every Content Area Reading is reading. By understanding that letters make sounds, we can blend those sounds together to make whole sounds that symbolize meaning we can all exchange with one another. Without getting too Platonic about it all, reading doesn’t change simply because you’re reading a text from another content area. Only sometimes it does. Science content can often by full of jargon, research citations, and odd text features. Social Studies content can be an interesting mix of itemized information, and traditional paragraphs/imagery. Literature? This all makes reading strategies somewhat content area specific. But if you’d like to start with a basic set of strategies, you could do worse than the elegant graphic above from wiki-teacher.com. Looking for related curricula ideas? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. To the above list, we’d add: 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 25 Reading Strategies That Work In Every Content Area
Collection Development 2.0 I've been a super fan of Gwyneth Jones' fantastic comic tutorials (using the comic creator Comic Life) for a long time! And what's not to love?? Gwyneth's colorful, fun graphics are a great way to share information and learn new stuff. So... when I was tasked with creating a tutorial on how to create a "21st Century Collection Development Plan" for a group of NC librarians, a comic tutorial seemed like just what the doctor ordered. Now... before I go any further, I want to go on record as saying that it's (past!) Even so, I was excited to put together a tutorial for what I am calling "Collection Development 2.0." Now... before you start that angry comment, let me clarify. Yes... up to date resources are important. Are these resources directly aligned to my library's mission? So... yes, I'm excited to help some of my NC colleagues work towards these goals. As always, my work is licensed under creative commons, so feel free to use and share.
Library Signs and Posters, plus Shelf Signage, Labels and Holders from LibrarySkills.com Teaching Students How to Set a Purpose for Reading By Sarah Tantillo I think we can all agree that annotating texts helps students comprehend them more deeply. But not all forms of annotating are helpful. How you annotate matters a lot. I’ve seen this problem quite often: students cover their texts with so many notes that it seems to take them an hour to read one page. The result? While it’s great that students can annotate with generic strategies such as underlining topic sentences and starring supporting details, the truth is that they need to learn how to analyze texts more effectively and efficiently. How can we teach readers to determine what’s most important? Students must learn to set a purpose for reading. Too often, teachers set the purpose (with assignments such as “Read Chapter 7 and answer these three questions” or “Read this article and write a summary”), and students do not actually learn how to set a purpose on their own. ► A helpful first step is to identify the GENRE of the text. Download the What’s Important ORGANIZER
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Top 10 ways to use technology to promote reading I only steal from the best. So here we go. Johnson's Top Ten... Author and fan websites. Young readers like know more “about the author” and the Internet is rich with resources produced both by the authors themselves, their publishers, and their fans. Here's the thing.