EDRG 3321-Genre Presentations

Unfortunately, my daughter was sick for the other group presentations, but the day I went, the group that went after me had an amazing activity. I really enjoyed the way they had us get involved in a mystery by putting the pieces together to make up a song. All the students seemed to like this, although some were puzzled. Overall, everyone did great on their presentations. I know ours was a lot of work. First we did a movie of the book, but that didn't turn out right, then we took pictures and I had the lovely task of timing everything in the powerpoint. Yes I whined the entire time, but the end product was great! Thank the Lord I only had to do one powerpoint. Thanks to Kim and Karen, our presentation was incredible. Thanks Jenn for letting the group utilize your camera! Yeah! We did great!

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Lois Lowry is a renowned author who has been known for decades by children. Her books are fun and most recently she has wrote Crow Call. Which was a story about her father during WWII. Again this book is nonfiction and opens doors for students. At the website she has a blog and biography. Here's her website: http://www.loislowry.com/.

EDRG 3344-Bloom's Taxonomy Objectives

EDRG 3321-Genre Presentations

I really enjoyed the way that the group conducted a read aloud with the class as if we were the students, there was some technological uses such as to present the powerpoint. The powerpoint about fantasy was beautiful, the art work was great. Ms. Pickett and I were at the back of the classroom saying "oh" and "ah". It was amazing the end product these groups shared with the class.

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Joan Holub has written many books and has been given numerous awards. I found out that she actually is participating in the nonfiction book industry titled Goddess Girls, one book is Goddess Girls: Athena the Brain. Her websites has an enormous amount of books, activities, and a chance to email the author. Here is her website http://www.joanholub.com/.

EDRG 3344-StarTrek

EDRG 3321-Chapter 11

Shared and guided reading is to me better than read alouds. Read alouds are good for modeling the reading features and habits for students to learn to enhance their reading. Shared reading or guided reading are well for students to have a chance to participate in the reading and not just focus on the techer. I have had the chance to observe in my son's prekindergarten class when he was three and watched him enjoy the shared reading of Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do You See?. He loved and favored the participation he was able to do with the class. The teacher would begin by handing out popsicle sticks with paper colored cutouts of the characters encountered in the book by brown bear. As she reads to the students, they would hold up their stick if the character was being brought into the book. The students absolutely adored this activity, watching them all day, this was what they looked forward to; carpet time, reading with the teacher and pulling out their popsicle sticks.

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Thomas Geisel is best known as Dr. Seuss, although his family did not want him to become an author, he has made an immense contribution to children's literature. His website has brief descriptions about his books, but who needs help with activities when his world is indefinite to the possibilities. I absolutely adore his book titled Green Eggs and Ham.

EDRG 3344- Descriptive MGP

This will be a picture of a honeybee with descriptive sentences describing the anatomy of a bee. The title of this piece will be Words Painting the Anatomy of a Bee.

EDRG 3321-Chapter 10.

Reading aloud to students is incredibly important for students to be able to retain the information. It has been proven in numerous studies presented in articles that students learn better with discussion and interaction with one another. Vygotsky put this theory into place. Read alouds offer students a chance to interact with the characters in the book. The teacher can vividly take read alouds a step further by doing character impersonations. With any read aloud the teacher should adjust her voice to fit the characters and allow a think aloud for the students to interact with one another and predict or infer the story as they follow in the book. Students enjoy attentive teachers who take joy in their reading which instills reading habits for their students as well.

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Eric Carle has wrote amazing books that my son absolutely adores. I read one of his books at least every night. The most familiar books is Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do You See?. The books are in a literature cycle. They begin where they end, which is one concept that can be crossed with other subjects such as science and the water cycle, or music, such as a song.