Good Morning!
I'm playing catch up today-I've been neglecting my classes and my students for about a week now, and I'm feeling REALLY guilty. So this morning's job is to get everything graded and everyone's questions answered. And new lesson plans prepared for the coming week, and a few articles written for my site (http://www.reading.allinfoabout.com), and, and, and, and!
Is school out yet in your area? Our kids have to go until next Wednesday, but I know that a number of districts around us have dismissed already. In a few days, kids around the country and maybe even the world will be saying "I'm BORED!" Here's a response:
Check with your child's school and get a list of books that they feel kids this age ought to read. If you can't find one at school, try the children's librarian in your hometown, or check online. Once you've found the magic list, have your child choose a book to read.
Reading is only part of the battle, though. In order to get the most out of the experience, your student needs to respond to the book in some fashion. Bookreports are the old-fashioned way to do this, and many kids will balk at doing them, especially in the summer. Instead, try challenging them to write a screen play for the book, create a newspaper edition about it, or write the diary of the main character. When you use more creative response options, you'll tap into different learning styles and will help kids to see that a cursory reading isn't enough to be truly literate. True literacy involves deeper thinking than that. Here are a few more response ideas to try: create a story web (connected shapes that show relationships), make a poster of graffitti that includes quotes and applicable sayings, write a version of the story that tells what happened after the last page, and take a pivotal event in the story and rewrite the ending as if the characters had made a different decision.
Keep reading!!
Is school out yet in your area? Our kids have to go until next Wednesday, but I know that a number of districts around us have dismissed already. In a few days, kids around the country and maybe even the world will be saying "I'm BORED!" Here's a response:
Check with your child's school and get a list of books that they feel kids this age ought to read. If you can't find one at school, try the children's librarian in your hometown, or check online. Once you've found the magic list, have your child choose a book to read.
Reading is only part of the battle, though. In order to get the most out of the experience, your student needs to respond to the book in some fashion. Bookreports are the old-fashioned way to do this, and many kids will balk at doing them, especially in the summer. Instead, try challenging them to write a screen play for the book, create a newspaper edition about it, or write the diary of the main character. When you use more creative response options, you'll tap into different learning styles and will help kids to see that a cursory reading isn't enough to be truly literate. True literacy involves deeper thinking than that. Here are a few more response ideas to try: create a story web (connected shapes that show relationships), make a poster of graffitti that includes quotes and applicable sayings, write a version of the story that tells what happened after the last page, and take a pivotal event in the story and rewrite the ending as if the characters had made a different decision.
Keep reading!!
posted by Sandy @ 6:58 AM
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