I just learned that the VoiceThread.com site will be down for maintenance December 24 and 25. If you haven’t already completed your VoiceThread booktalk assignment, it might be a good goal to get it done before December 24.
Continue Reading Add comment December 19, 2009
Today, we watched the beginning of a video of Neil Gaiman reading his Newbury-award-winning book, The Graveyard Book. It’s a fascinating book about a very much alive young boy named Nobody who is raised in a graveyard by ghosts. If you would like to to hear the rest of his reading, you can access it [...]
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Today students completed the final reading comprehension test on Where the Red Fern Grows online through Quia.com. I think most of them were very happy with their results, and they enjoy getting to see how they did immediately after they submit their answers. Here’s a photo some of them hard at work: After they completed [...]
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Tomorrow we will have a reading comprehension test on Where the Red Fern Grows. In preparation, complete this Quia review activity. For any questions you miss, I recommend that you go back to that section of the book to review. Also, do a general review of the book to be ready for the test. Many [...]
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Today we continued our Where the Red Fern Grows reading. Please read up through end the of Chapter 19 tonight, and complete the Venn diagram for Old Dan and Little Ann. We will read Chapter 20 together tomorrow and review the book in preparation for a reading comprehension test on Thursday. Also, don’t forget to [...]
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Today we began Chapter 17 of Where the Red Fern Grows. Homework tonight is to read through the middle of Chapter 18, page 227. Students also began work on a Venn diagram comparing the characteristics of Old Dan and Little Ann. Students should complete their diagrams by Wednesday, the day we finish reading the book. [...]
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Students took an online quiz through quia.com today on Where the Red Fern Grows, Chapters 8-14. I think most of them were very happy with how they did! We also reviewed what constitutes a good comment on someone’s blog posting or any type of writing. Good comments compliment the writer, make a suggestion, or ask [...]
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We spent the period today in the library reading, taking quizzes, and selecting books. Homework tonight includes: Reading Chapters 14 and 15 of Where the Red Fern Grows. We will have a reading comprehension quiz on Chapters 7 – 14 tomorrow. Completing the Read Fern VoiceThread comments on one of the four questions assigned yesterday. [...]
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Today we had another mini-lesson on run on sentences, and then we discussed some of the questions from Chapters 9-12 of Where the Red Fern Grows. Tonight’s homework is to read Chapter 13. I also gave the students an assignment, due Friday, to comment on one of the four new questions on our Red Fern [...]
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Today I booktalked a fun holiday season book, Let It Snow, a collection of three intertwined holiday short stories by John Green, Maureen Johnson, and Lauren Myracle. Then, students began reading Where the Red Fern Grows, Chapters 9 and 10, and will be completing these chapters for homework tonight. I also talked to students about [...]
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