Teacher B said to teacher A, “Kids like stories, and many like to read.  A scholar and expert, A. M. Fabregat says the following. I translated from Spanish into English.  If we try a child get closer to a joyful reading, the best books are those that make up the world of literature for children. Classics, marvelous books, modern books… Those ...

Teacher B said to teacher A, “How important tradition and a cultural context are for our students. We have to teach them, but inside the culture and tradition of the country or place where we live. Because of that Reading is a very important activity in the class of English.  Let’s not forget that the European roots are twofold: Christian and ...

I’m starting a new novel with my students on Monday, and I like to give out a reading schedule for each book. Instead of a typical placeholder, I like to do two things with the bookmark. First, I print out a daily schedule of readings with the date and the pages to be read for that day. This means the students enter class having read those pages, ...

On the 1st I mentioned my concern about administrators in my district pushing non-fiction texts into Language Arts classrooms to an unwelcomed and unintended degree. This article by the two co-lead authors of the Common Core Standards affirms my assertions: By high school, the Standards require that 70 percent of what students read be ...

Well, the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) are here, and my district (and a few department members) see it as the panacea for this generation of students. While I don’t have anywhere near that sort of faith in the new standards, I do like the professional development that could stem from the implementation of the standards. However, I do see ...

Patricia Polacco is one of my favorite authors to use in the classroom.She is such an engaging storyteller.  My class was riveted to this author study video today. I plan to now have my students practice sharing a family story of their own with this assignment: Click picture to download Which Patricia Polacco story is your favorite? Leave a ...

One day teacher of English A said to teacher of English B, “We must foster our students should read. There’re several different ways of reading, each one capable of enriching us in different ways. Actually I’m referring to genres. And within each genre we have to be careful to assign enriching readings to our students: they are in the process of ...

Brownie and Pearl are our newest literary friends.My students are loving these simple stories and silly titles.Get dolled up, grab a bite and read a Brownie and Pearl book before you hit the hay. var docstoc_docid=''116896669'';var docstoc_title=''brownie and pearl'';var docstoc_urltitle=''brownie and pearl''; brownie and pearl -

 

Eve Bunting's ''Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust''  Use this great read to introduce a unit on The Holocaust!  Or it can be used to introduce topics such as:  Bullying  Racism/Prejudice  Different Cultures/Religions  Kindness  Helping Others  Acceptance  Violence And don't forget the LITERARY ELEMENTS you can ...