"A list for improving literacy with focus on middle grades." <[email protected]> on Monday, June 25, 2007 at 4:04 PM -0500 wrote: >as an upcoming 3rd year teacher, i'm still looking for the perfect >curriculum and instructional combination:) something tells me this won't >change from year to year. Hi!
Well, I'm still fine-tuning my teaching and I've been at it since 1981 :-) > >here's my question: i'd like to begin the year (i teach 7th grade >reading) with reading picture books, quality books that i can preview the >major elements of fiction we'll be studying this year. does anyone have >some good ideas for picture books that lend themselves to lit. study? i'm >not wanting to get into anything too heavy, but it would be nice to give >students an overview of what we'll be doing for the year--at least in >fiction. i'm open to poetry and non fiction books as well. I love "Hip Cat" by Jonathan London - beautiful jazz poetry, and an upbeat "do what you love to do and do it well" message. "Song and Dance Man" was another of my son's books that might work well with middle schoolers. It's about a man who brings his grandchildren up to the attic and gives them an impromptu show demonstrating what he used to do on stage in the good old days. > >after the first week, we'll launch into the novel, holes. i use holes >because most students have either read the book or watched the movie. >since we get so many transfer students, holes is something most students >can get on board with ease--even if it's at the end of the novel. they >all seem to know the story of hole. Sounds good! Take care, Bill Ivey Stoneleigh-Burnham School _______________________________________________ The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org. Search the LIT archives at http://snipurl.com/LITArchive
