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Deborah Wiles and Poetry Alive! Nov. 5…register now!

Love That Dog…

1. Describe Jack at the beginning of the book.
2. Describe Jack’s letter to Mr. Walter Dean Myers.
3. Who is Sky? What happened to Sky?
4. How does Miss Stretchberry teach Jack to write poetry?
5. What does Jack learn about writing poetry.

Reading Aloud…

READ ALOUD ASSIGNMENT:

You are invited to choose an ENGAGING book to read aloud to the students in your internship classroom. With your cooperating teacher’s help, select a picture book to read aloud. If you are in an upper-elementary classroom, you may select a novel to read when you are there full-time, but for now, select a picture book. Read a novel in November when you are there full-time…

• You will rehearse your read aloud, plan appropriate stopping points, think about questions you may ask, vocabulary to discuss, etc.
• You will read aloud on Friday, September 9 or 16.
• You will then write a reflection of your read aloud experience and post to your blog. Think about what went well, what you will do differently next time you read, and the most important learning that YOU experienced from reading aloud to your students.
• Be sure to solicit feedback from your teacher on how the read aloud went.

Be sure to identify the grade level, the book’s title/author/illustrator, and the genre of your picture book. As soon as you have decided upon a book to read aloud, post the book information to your blog. I will be at Hardin Park both Fridays.

I am more than happy to help you choose a book! Let’s set up a time to talk…

See these sites for suggestions:

http://www.trelease-on-reading.com/default.html

http://theabfc.wordpress.com/the-eb-white-read-aloud-awards/

Hot Blogging

Classroom Blogs…a few favorites:

http://yollisclassblog.blogspot.com/ 3rd Grade Class-Yollis

http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=1337 1st Grade-Cassidy

http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=51141 (Kinder Kids)

• http://blogs.dalton.org/edinger/ (4th Grade)
• http://mskreul.edublogs.org/  4th (Grade)
• http://room241.blog.greenville.k12.sc.us/
• http://lcoupe.wordpress.com/ (3rd grade)
• http://grade3esl.blogspot.com/
• http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=59644&assignmentid=391
• http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=41233

• http://davidwarlick.com/wordpress/?page_id=2 (David Warlick)
  • http://classblogmeister.com/
    • http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=1337
    • http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=265128&blog_id=&listclass=31153
    • http://michellesmelser.blogspot.com/
    • http://mrlund.edublogs.org/
    • http://gismrfletcher.edublogs.org/
    • http://kulikowski.edublogs.org/
    • http://learningspace.nisd.net/adventures/
    • • Blogger’s Contract-Mark Ahlness bloggers_contract
      • Permission Form for BlogInternetPermissionform

NCDPI Recommends Blogging and Offers a Course…

Interesting…

In a recent publication from June Atkinson (Feb. 10, 2011), State Superintendent of North Carolina Public Schools, I found the following:

6.  Using Blogs and Collaborative Tools to Improve Student Writing – Embrace blogging and other web-writing tools as a way to enhance your students’ writing and to reach your own curriculum goals. Writing platforms like blogs, wikis, and forums inspire opportunities for collaboration, peer review and critical thinking that traditional writing assignments cannot. The Connected Writer: Using Blogs and Collaborative Tools to Improve Student Writing, an online course from LEARN NC and North Carolina e-Learning for Educators, begins March 9, costs $150, and is worth 2.0 CEUs. For more information or to register, please visit http://www.learnnc.org/courses/catalog/the_connected_writer?ref=emaildpi.

Your thoughts?

Summer Breeze…what makes you feel fine?

Zorgamazoo by Robert Paul Weston

http://www.zorgamazoo.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmKV8MZZnTk

http://youtu.be/-d_6q_oZQ20

 

On Keeping a Journal or Notebook

My journal is at the heart of my writing. There I record dreams, memories, funny happenings and wild ideas. Free to play, I write in different directions and colors; I draw, I tape in leaves, notes from kids, boarding passes. From such compost, poems, stories, and even novels grow.

George Ella Lyon

A notebook can be the clearing in the forest of your life, a place where you can be alone and content as you play with outrage and wonder, details and gossip, language and dreams, plots and subplots, perceptions and small epiphanies.

Ralph Fletcher

Are We Engaging our 21st Century Learners?

What are your thoughts?