This was a popular choice the first round because a lot of students felt it was easy to manage; listen to one picture book read aloud, write a response a day. I love it because it honors the picture book read alouds we have done throughout the year, and it allowed me to gather fant...
|TaggedBalloon Toons,Calef Brown,Chisato Tashiro,comics,Daniel Cleary,David Mackintosh,favourite illustrators,fiction,great read alouds,Il Sung Na,Monday reads,picture books|22Replies Pirateria April 20, 2013 Pirateriawritten and illustrated byCalef Brownwas ourBLG bookthis week read by the very talente...
Some of things that help are language-based — read-alouds and rhyming games and stuff like that. Something else that helps kids learn to read is learning about the world.This is important because you can’t make sense of words on a page if you have no idea what those words are referri...
I genuinely believe we just haven’t found the right thing for them to read yet. Everyone has a passion, we just need to find the right book. It’s up to us, as the adults, to help model what it looks like to be a lifelong learner…a lifelong reader. My elementary colleagues, it...
“10 Read Alouds for Upper Elementary Grades” Whether you’re implementing aBYOD classroom, teaching students to developPLN’s, or planning aTwitter debatein your class, these 5 tools may help you with some unexpected logistics. The Importance of Keeping Up ...
In mainstream homeschooling, there is often an idea of a “Morning Basket” or “Morning Time” in which all family members gather for any of the following: family announcements, spiritual direction, read alouds, poetry, art or music history with composers, etc. It serves as a market to be...
Who is driving the fire engine? Elephant! Kids are presented with a gentle set of picturebook images on driving and animals and are invited to guess which animal will drive the latest vehicle. Colorful, crazy animal drawings enhance a light guessing game perfect for parent/child read-alouds....
Read books in verse aloud.This year certainly has been the year of the verse book and these make for incredible read alouds. The story moves along at a fast pace, the students hear great poetry and like it, and it allows us to cover more books. I just finishedThe Crossoverwith two cl...