Literacy Connections
Literacy Links & Resources
2016-17 Back to School Edition
Where did the 10ish weeks go? I hope your's included lots of time with family and friends, doing all of your favorite things. As each new school year approaches, I'm always thankful to work in a profession that offers a new beginning...a clean slate...with 180 days of new learning stretched out ahead! I also know that we can have the best curriculum, the newest teaching tools, the perfect teaching schedule; but YOU, the classroom teacher, will have the greatest impact on learners over the coming school year.
In this abbreviated "Back to School" edition of Literacy Connections you will find reminders of the important role you will have in the lives of your learners this year, along with a couple of general resources for both reading and writing workshop. Literacy Connections wouldn't be complete without some book recommendations, which include some of my favorite newer titles for launching your reading and writing community.
I'm looking forward to another year of teaching and learning alongside you all. This year I'm going to be working in both buildings on a daily basis, splitting each day in half. I'll rotate the morning/afternoon schedule on a weekly basis. I'll share more about my schedule next week.
Happy Reading!
Susan
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All book summaries are from Goodreads.com
Kindergarten
Grade 1
Step Two: Find a reading buddy. (Someone nice.)
Step Three: Find a reading spot. (Couches are cozy.)
Now: Begin.
Accomplished storytellers Kate Messner and Mark Siegel chronicle the process of becoming a reader: from pulling a book off the shelf and finding someone with whom to share a story, to reading aloud, predicting what will happen, and—finally—coming to The End. This picture book playfully and movingly illustrates the idea that the reader who discovers the love of reading finds, at the end, the beginning.
Grade 2
Grade 3
But ruin it they do.
And as it turns out, the boy is quickly approaching a surprise ending of his own! Maybe he should have listened to the animals after all. . . .
This silly, timeless picturebook with a clever meta twist introduces debut author Minh L 's witty text and Isabel Roxas's eye-catching illustrations.
Grade 4
The school has a rough start, but as the day goes on, he soon recovers when he sees that he's not the only one going through first-day jitters.
Grade 5
Thoughts open up to other thoughts, and ideas are born and carried forward, often transforming into other ideas until he finds that ideas really are all around, you just have to know what to do with them.
Susan Dee K-5 Literacy Strategist
Email: dees@rsu5.org
Location: Freeport, ME, United States
Phone: 207-865-4561
Twitter: @literacydocent