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Chad Evans

Response: Advice From The "Book Whisperer," Ed Week Readers & Me About Teaching Reading... - 1 views

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      Highlighting text is really easy with Diigo. And adding a sticky note is very simple is well. It can be made private or shared with groups of people who are working with the same document
  • Other ways I encourage these kinds of discussions includes having students choose their own groupings and books for independent book "clubs" and using the Web as a vehicle to create audio and/or video "book trailers."
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      From a technology end, our kids are beginning to do more and more with tools like voicethread, animoto, imovie, etc. Digital storytelling is a great way for students to be creative, share insights and show what they know and can do. 
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  • One facet of our reading instruction that cannot be overlooked is the importance of teacher readers in building a classroom reading community. According to Morrison, Jacobs, and Swinyard (1999), "perhaps the most influential teacher behavior to influence students' literacy development is personal reading, both in and out of school."
    • Chad Evans
       
      I wonder how open ALL teachers are about what they are reading? How much conversation do teachers as a whole have about what they are reading? 
  • If we don't read, why should our students?
  • Share your reading life with your students. Show your students what reading adds to your life. If you are reading a nonfiction book at the moment, tell them what you are learning. Pass the children's books you are reading to them when you are done. Describe the funny, sad, or interesting moments in the books you read. When you read something challenging, talk with your students about how you work through difficult text. It will surprise them that you find reading hard at times, too, but choose to read, anyway.
  • Many students in today's world do not read books outside of school. When they do read, it is text-messages, web pages or homework assignments. For students who did not grow up in homes with books, with adults who read and who read to them, this time to read in school is both necessary and pleasurable. Many of my students need catch-up time when it comes to "hours-in" reading. The 10 minutes at the beginning of each period that I allow my juniors each day equals hours of reading across the months of the school year. My most dedicated readers begin books in the classroom, finish them at home, and return to the classroom/school library to check out new books.
    • Chad Evans
       
      This is an important distinction in that I believe (and research indicates) that our kids ARE reading more than ever before. But it comes in non-traditional forms. We must acknowledge that web based reading is still reading, but it differs. Research also indicates that when kids read digitally, they read in a different pattern. In traditional reading, they read in a z pattern down a page. Digital reading is more of an F pattern,indicating skim and scan. 
Matt Renwick

Building School-Based Student Digital Book Clubs | MiddleWeb - 5 views

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    "All learning is social. We develop new understandings from each other. Print, whether digital or on paper, happens to be one of the ways people communicate. Bridging these two worlds through social media such as Google+, Twitter, and Edmodo gives us that authentic experience of what read readers do."
Stacy Olson

Book Club Management - 6 views

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    "Bookclubit.com is the web's leading application for creating, managing and running your very own online book club.
Deborah Baillesderr

Needle Arts Mentoring Program - The National NeedleArts Association - 16 views

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    I'm starting a lunchtime knitting/crochet club for my students this year and came along this wonderful program to help with the cost. This program donates supplies for mentors who would like to start a program to teach needle arts. Here are some of the benefits from learning a needle art: For Youths: Develops focus and concentration Encourages following a process Builds self-esteem Improves math and reading skills Enhances critical thinking and problem solving Offers a vehicle for stress release and anger management Encourages creativity through portable alternative activity Provides healthy interpersonal relationships with adults Ensures tangible accomplishments with immediate results Learns a practical, useful and fun activity Enhances hand/eye coordination, small motor skills, tactile energy, communication skills, self discipline and attention to detail
Virginia Meadow

Tom Snyder Productions: Product Details - 0 views

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    Website for Tom Snyder Productions, a Scholastic company, creator of education software for the k-12 educational market. Major products include Scholastic Keys, Thinking Reader, TimeLiner, Graph Master, Graph Club, Neighborhood MapMachine, Community Construction Kit, Decisions Decisions, Reading for Meaning, FASTT Math, GO Solve Word Problems, Science Court, Workshop Book Series
Holly Barlaam

Practical Biology - 112 views

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    "Practical Biology provides teachers of biology at all levels with experiments that demonstrate a wide range of biological concepts and processes. Each practical may be used alone or as a starting-point for open-ended investigations or enhancement activities, such as clubs or open-day events. Experiments are placed within real-life contexts, with links to carefully selected further reading, enabling teachers to show relevance and illustrate the key principles of How Science Works"
megan Heath

Share Book Recommendations With Your Friends, Join Book Clubs, Answer Trivia - 6 views

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      This a great site for your class to track the books they are reading and share reviews with one another.
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    Share your thoughts and opinions on books you and your students are reading.
Matt Renwick

How to Start an Online Book Club on Goodreads | Reading By Example - 35 views

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    Leave a comment on my blog post and register to possibly win a free copy of Mindfulness.
meldar

Authors Who Skype with Classes & Book Clubs (for free!) - 169 views

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    Excellent starting point for classrooms looking to use their technology during literacy blocks.
Ms. G

Current Events - 57 views

shared by Ms. G on 26 Aug 11 - Cached
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      Use these links to find current events articles to present to your book club.
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    Information about current events to help you when reading Hoot
Ed Webb

» Features » The Future of Unemployment - 0 views

shared by Ed Webb on 10 Feb 09 - Cached
  • (There is a rich - if unexpected - source of inspiration for this kind of collaborative space in the history of the 19th century mutual improvement societies, reading clubs and other self-organised, working class institutions. For example, the church halls and upstairs rooms of pubs where many of them met are still common enough - and would be worth exploring as possible venues for a group trying to set up such a space today.)
    • Ed Webb
       
      Not so unexpected - the Workers' Educational Association is one important part of the genealogy of Edupunk.
Allison Mimms

Differentiating Instruction with Technology - 111 views

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  • 1.Recognizing similarities and differences
  • Graphic organizers such as the Venn diagram and Comparison matrix
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  • Represent similarities and differences in graphic or symbolic form
  • Sorting, classifying, using metaphors and analogies
  • Word processing tables (Word software)
  • Web-based/downloadable graphic organizers
  • Inspiration and Kidspiration software
  • Beginning, middle, end
  • Clarifying information
  • Teacher-prepared and student-prepared comments
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  • Cornell Note-taking Forms
  • Inspiration and Kidspiration software
  • NoteStar
  • Read•Write•Think Notetaker
  • Word processing notes (Word software
  • 5.Nonlinguistic representations:
  • Creating graphic representations
  • Drawing pictures and pictographsEngaging in kinesthetic activityGenerating mental picturesMaking physical models
  • Digital camerasGraph Club softwareInspiration and Kidspiration softwareKid Pix software
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    This is from a website that explains why differentiating instruction is important. It also includes ways to incorporate technology in the classroom to help differentiate lessons.
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