Literacy Connections
A Weekly Round Up of Literacy Links & Resources
February 22, 2015
There are so many ideas and resources available to us now that just weeding through it all can sometimes feel like a full time job! Literacy Connections is a way of highlighting a few resources each week to support the important work you do in your classroom.
The content each week will vary, depending on what comes across cyberspace but you can expect each week's edition to include ideas, book recommendations, websites, and other literacy resources.
This week you'll find ideas for keeping the conversation about reading lives front and center in your classroom and/or building, a video link on conferencing, resources for World Read Aloud Day, book recommendations, and an upcoming professional development opportunity in our "backyard".
If you find links that you think would be good to share here on Literacy Connections, please email them to me and I'll add them on a future edition.
Happy Reading!
Susan
World Read Aloud Day
Donald Graves Write Now! Conference
Click here for Registration Information.
March Book Madness
Click here for more information and/or to sign up.
Shelfies: A Snapshot of Our Reading Lives
Quick Take: Time Constraints in Conferences
The Book Buzz
All descriptions are from Goodreads.com
Kindergarten
The simple text of Anna Kang and bold illustrations of New Yorkercartoonist Christopher Weyant tell an original and very funny story about size -- it all depends on who's standing next to you.
Grade 1
With plenty of pictures bursting with charm and character, this hilarious book about an irresistible rascal is the new must-read for the chapter book set.
Grade 2
Grade 3
Ranger has been trained as a search-and-rescue dog, but can't officially pass the test because he's always getting distracted by squirrels during exercises. One day, he finds a mysterious first aid kit in the garden and is transported to the year 1850, where he meets a young boy named Sam Abbott. Sam's family is migrating west on the Oregon Trail, and soon after Ranger arrives he helps the boy save his little sister. Ranger thinks his job is done, but the Oregon Trail can be dangerous, and the Abbotts need Ranger's help more than they realize!
Grade 4
It’s prankster against prankster in an epic war of trickery, until the two finally decide to join forces and pull off the biggest prank ever seen: a prank so huge that it would make the members of the International Order of Disorder proud.
Grade 5
So begins a new adventure of Ada, and for Susan Smith, the woman who is forced to take the two kids in. As Ada teaches herself to ride a pony, learns to read, and watches for German spies, she begins to trust Susan—and Susan begins to love Ada and Jamie. But in the end, will their bond be enough to hold them together through wartime? Or will Ada and her brother fall back into the cruel hands of their mother?
Susan Dee K-5 Literacy Strategist
Email: dees@rsu5.org
Location: Freeport, ME, United States
Phone: 207-865-4561
Twitter: @literacydocent