Interested in matching students with text? Thinking about ways to motivate and engage your students in the new school year?
Come and view our online video transcript of the FOR-PD Content Area Chat, “Matching Texts to Students”. This chat was conducted on July 22, 2009 with our guest speaker, Dr. Sherron Roberts.
You can now view it by visiting the following link. https://admin.na3.acrobat.com/_a826512158/p93349723/
Please feel free to share it with your colleagues.
Your Thoughts: How do you match texts with students? How will you increase the motivation and engagement with texts this school year?
In celebration of National D.E.A.R. (Drop Everything and Read) Day, Reading Rockets is collecting questions for famous author, Beverly Cleary. Mrs. Cleary is the author of such favorites as Ramona, Dear Mr. Henshaw, and Runaway Ralph. Reading Rockets will select the best questions for Mrs. Cleary to answer and then post her respones in an audio interview that will be available on April 12.
You have until February 29 to send your question. If your question is selected to be answered, HarperCollins Children’s Books will send you a set of Beverly Cleary titles! Click here to submit your question.
Looking for ideas on how to increase independent reading in your classroom? Check out the ideas from our FOR-PD Literacy Newsletter.
As Valentine’s Day approaches we know that many teachers and parents may be in search of some good texts to use with their students or children. FOR-PD would like to offer the following text set created by two of our esteemed facilitators and media specialists, Nancy Case and Jean Salmon. We hope their choices will give you a good start to using text sets in the classroom. Check it out!!
Wondering how to use text sets? Check out our February 2006 Reading Strategy of the Month.
HarperCollins Publishers announced that they will now be offering an online promotion that allows consumers exclusive sampling of books on www.HarperCollins.com. In the “Full Access†Program, titles can be seen in their entirety for a limited time. In the “Sneak Peek†Program, readers will be able to view 20% of many new titles.
Looking for a good book for your intermediate and middle school readers? Check out Warriors: Into the Wild, the first volume of the bestselling children’s series by Erin Hunter.
Reading text online has become a staple for many readers. Book companies and learning projects are working hard to address the needs of the online reading community. Are you a teacher looking for more ideas for motivating students to read? Check out this link for some wonderful online resources. Electronic Books and Online Reading
Do you have a useful site or idea for using online text to motivate your students to read? We’d love to hear your thoughts and ideas. Click on the “leave a comment” bubble to share with us.
Each year, thousands of children, young adults, teachers, and librarians around the United States select their favorite recently published books for the “Choices†booklists. These lists are used in classrooms, libraries, and homes to help young readers find books they will enjoy.
Complete, annotated Choices lists for 2007 are now available for download through the International Reading Association website. See below for more details for each booklist.
- Children’s Choices is cosponsored by the Children’s Book Council. The list includes brief reviews of approximately 100 titles, each of which has been recommended by children themselves.
- Teachers’ Choices identifies approximately 30 books rated by teams of teachers, librarians, and reading specialists as outstanding for curriculum use.
- Young Adults’ Choices provides descriptions of approximately 30 books selected by teenage reviewers.
Have you read any of these books? Whare are some of your favorites from 2006/2007? We’d love to hear from you.
AdLit.org, a national service of public television station WETA in Washington, D.C. AdLit is funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Ann B. and Thomas L. Friedman Family Foundation, has just been launched for the month of November. This new site focuses on ways taht educators and parents can assist students in fourth through 12th grades with their literacy development.
AdLit.org offers research-based information and extensive resources, articles, blogs, glossaries, and links to newsletters.
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