Town Center Elementary Library
Global Read Aloud 2016
What is The Global Read Aloud?
The premise is simple; Read aloud to your students during a set 6-week period and during that time try to make as many global connections as possible.
Each teacher decides how much time they would like to dedicate and how involved they would like to be. Some people choose to connect with just one class, while others go for as many as possible. The scope and depth of the project is up to you. In the past we have used Twitter, Skype, Edmodo, GRA wiki, email, regular mail, Kidblog, Tackk, and any other tools we can think of to make these connections. Teachers get a community of other educators to do a global project with, hopefully inspiring them to continue these connections through the year.
Recap:
-Read aloud book for 6 weeks starting October 3rd!
-Connect regularly with other participating classrooms
-Connections/Projects can be as simple or complex as YOU choose!
Kindergarten & First Grade: Author Study-Lauren Castillo
Week 1: Nana in the City
Week 2: The Troublemaker
Week 3: The Reader
Week 4: Twenty Yawns
Week 5: Yard Sale
Week 6: Any Lauren Castillo book of your choice!
Twitter hashtag: #GRALauren
Second & Third Grade: The BFG
From award winning author, Roald Dahl and recently released as a major motion picture directed by Steven Spielberg!
The BFG is no ordinary bone-crunching giant. He is far too nice and jumbly. It's lucky for Sophie that he is. Had she been carried off in the middle of the night by the Bloodbottler, or any of the other giants—rather than the BFG—she would have soon become breakfast. When Sophie hears that the giants are flush-bunking off to England to swollomp a few nice little chiddlers, she decides she must stop them once and for all. And the BFG is going to help her!
Reading Schedule
Week 1: The Witching Hour through The Cave
Week 2: The BFG through Snozzcumbers
Week 3: The Bloodbottler through Dream-Catching
Week 4: A Trogglehumper for the Fleshlumpeater through Mixing the Dream
Week 5: Journey to London through The Royal Breakfast
Week 6: The Plan through The Author
Bonus:
Check out this great HyperDoc on The BFG created by Sean Fahey
Link- bit.ly/BFGHD
Twitter Hashtag: #GRABFG
Fourth & Fifth Grade: Pax
From bestselling and award-winning author Sara Pennypacker comes a beautifully wrought, utterly compelling novel about the powerful relationship between a boy and his fox. Pax is destined to become a classic, beloved for generations to come.
Pax and Peter have been inseparable ever since Peter rescued him as a kit. But one day, the unimaginable happens: Peter's dad enlists in the military and makes him return the fox to the wild.
At his grandfather's house, three hundred miles away from home, Peter knows he isn't where he should be—with Pax. He strikes out on his own despite the encroaching war, spurred by love, loyalty, and grief, to be reunited with his fox.
Meanwhile Pax, steadfastly waiting for his boy, embarks on adventures and discoveries of his own. . . .
Reading Schedule
Week 1: Chapters 1 – 5
Week 2: Chapters 6 – 10
Week 3: Chapters 11 – 16
Week 4: Chapters 17 – 23
Week 5: Chapters 24 – 27
Week 6: Chapters 28 – end
Bonus:
Check out this great HyperDoc on PAX created by Nicole Beardsley
Link- bit.ly/PAXHD
Twitter Hashtag: #GRAPax
How can Mrs. Berumen Help?
-Secure and check out GRA books to you
-Schedule some in library read alouds for your class
-Seek and schedule global connections for you
-Host global connections in the library
-Collaborate to create digital opportunities to support your GRA book!