Monday, January 30, 2012

If You. . .

If you could fly like a flying squirrel you would be as graceful as a ballerina

Monday, January 23, 2012

Blessed Books

Pretzel 
Charlotte's Web
Grace Based Parenting
The Book Thief
Great Expectations
Every Song Has it's Secret
The Power of a Praying Parent


Eloise Greenfield books for African American background
Honey I love


Saturday, January 21, 2012

Reading Strategies

First Day Jitters by Julie Dannenberg
  • Author's purpose
  • Connections
  • Using prior knowledge
  • Predict
Bat Loves The Night by Nicola Davies
  • Use text to support thinking
  • Rereading
  • Navigating text features
  • Determining importance
Voices in the Park by Anthony Browne
  • Considering point of view
  • Identify a theme
  • synthesis
  • making judgements

  • text-to self
  • text-to world
  • text to text
  • making generalizations
  • illustrators purpose
  • identifying theme