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Thursday, March 28, 2013

Practice Proficiency Questions

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Please complete the form from your questions from the 2006 OAA. You can see the responses HERE . Loading...
Tuesday, March 26, 2013

School Survey Says . . .

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A survey about our schools was distributed to families and/or posted on websites in February 2013. Approximately 402 surveys were returned...
Friday, March 15, 2013

An Amazing Story of a Reader

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Savannah never read a chapter book before this year.  Somehow she got to six grade and never finished a chapter book.  She was a fake re...
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Thursday, March 14, 2013

Compare and Contrast Families

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The latest assignment in Reading Workshop is to describe the family in the SSR book students are reading.  Then they have to compare and co...
Tuesday, March 12, 2013

What is Your Dream?

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Do you dare enough to dream?  What is your dream?  Although this clip is from a couple of years ago, the power of the song and the message h...
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Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Organization for Writing a Response Post

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The assignment to students was to write a blog post about how the main character in the book they are reading responds to problems he/she f...
Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Character in a Book

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Students wrote a blog post about the main character in the book they are reading. They shared how the character acts, thinks, and feels and ...
Monday, February 11, 2013

Hey Students, Who is in Charge of You?

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I am spending the next three days at the Ohio Etech Conference .  This is a chance for me to be the student and learn about using technolog...
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Thursday, January 31, 2013

A Spiderwick Kind of Class

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The students in 604 have been infected by Spiderwick.  Over half of the class has read at least part of Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black...
Tuesday, January 22, 2013

How the Setting Impacts the Book

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Students recently wrote a blog post about how the setting impacts the book they are reading.  We discussed the setting in the current read ...
Friday, January 11, 2013

How Involved are You in Blogging?

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As the grading period comes to an end, please count and record the number of your posts and comments. Loading...
Thursday, January 10, 2013

Zero Tolerance for Writing Errors

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Starting today there is  zero tolerance for mistakes in writing .  The school year is half over.  Students in  Reading Workshop   have ...
Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Submit Your Project for a Grade

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Reading Workshop students, please copy your Element Essay and Element poem from your blog and paste them into this form to be graded. Loa...
Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Hey Guys, Which Half are You In?

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I watched as each row was dismissed.  After a few minutes, I decided it was about 50/50.  I didn't see a pattern based on age, dress,...
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Interdisciplinary Element Project

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Students will be doing an interdisciplinary research/writing project in Reading Workshop and science.  Students will choose an element fr...
Monday, December 17, 2012

Only 12 and Already Thinking the Grass is Greener . . .

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I had an interesting conversation with two students last Friday.  They were telling me how this other class was and how students in there...
Thursday, December 13, 2012

To All the Maze Runner Fans

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A lot of Reading Workshop students have been reading The Maze Runner written by James Dashner.  The movie is supposed to be out in 2013.  ...
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Monday, December 10, 2012

Reading Success by Selecting a Series

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What do the three students in the picture have in common?  All three were reluctant readers that have found success through the choice of...
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Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Revising Poems

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So you get a first draft of a poem and it seems pretty good.  Now what?  Is it ready to publish?  Everything is spelled right.  It makes se...

Poetry Rubric

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The Reading Workshop Poetry Rubric Component 4/A 3/B 2/ C 1/D ...
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