"Words are our most
inexhaustible source of magic."
-J.K. Rowling
Can we all agree? Friday holidays are nice, but an official, everybody-gets-the-day-off Monday holiday is a beautiful thing.
This short week we will begin our class novel, The Benefits of Being an Octopus, by Ann Braden. However tempting, don’t read ahead on this one. I find that nothing brings a classroom together like a shared experience. Novels are the perfect way to accomplish this. In addition to being a great read, we’ll use it as a mentor text to uncover professional writing moves we can practice and then use in our own realistic fiction narratives. Win-win. Plus, after seeing the results from an initial assessment, reading comprehension scores are lower this year. I suspect it is harder for all of us to focus with so much change and uncertainty. Extra reading in the classroom will be just what we all need. Students: Octopus classroom reading will not count toward your Independent Reading page total. Keep reading the novels you have chosen on your own time. We have some catching up to do. Comments are closed.
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AuthorBeth Fabiano - Busy 7th Grade ELA teacher, wife, mother Archives
May 2021
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