The presentations during these three weeks were awasome and creatives. Everyone expressed on different formats the four genres of literature. It was incredible how if we put the Minds together to works what we can obtain as a result. In my particular case it was a little dificult at the begininning trying to figurated out what I can do to represent the story that I read, but after a few moment of reflextion I started developing my project without any difficulty. For any students the first step which include give form to our own ideas sometimes it is the difficult steps, but once that we have a clear idea about what we can to express to the audience, the ideas flowing without any difficulty. Everybody were creative and demostrate and reflect the personal qualities that everyone possess, and for my it is the key point, that everyone express in the better possible form a new idea.

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There is More than one type of learning. A committee of colleges, led by Benjamin Bloom, identified three domains of educational activities: Cognitive (mental skills, knowledge) Affective (grown in feeling and emotional areas, attitude) and Psycho motor (manual or physical skills).

This compilation devides the three domains into subdivisions, starting from the simplest behavior to the most complex. The divisions outlined are not absolutes and there are other systems or hierarchies that have been devised in the educational and trining world. However, Bloom's taxonomy is easily understood and is probably the most widely applied one is use today because the accuracy of its measures from the lowest to higher order thinking.

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Evidently "hay tumble" is Vermont dialect for haycock. In this engaging fantasy, a poor farmer making hay on a steep mountain-side decides to roll his hay tumbles down to the ramshackle barn below. One tumble leads to another, growing like a snowball so large that it bounces over the barn. While tumbling the tumble somehow contrives to do all the farmer's chores: stacking sap buckets; pulling weeds; cutting and stacking logs; catching and cleaning trout; picking up stones and dropping them neatly into a wall; and lending gently on the wife's milk cart. "And that was the start of good fortune for the farmer and his wife." The haycocks and their dynamic passage down the hill are vividly painted by Dick Gackenbach.

Harris, Kathleen McKinley. The Wonderful Hay Tumble New York: Morrow Junior Books, 1988. Illustrated by Dick Gackenbach

BECOMING AN EFFECTIVE TEACHER, continuation: Effective teachers Scaffold Children's reading and writing experiencies, organize literacy Instruction, Connect instruction to assessment, become partners with parents.

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There are lots of Maine haying details in this pleasantly illustrated book. "Wet hay mildews and gives the cows a bellyache." A barn burned down when " the hay was too green, and it was

stacked too tight, the bales got all hot inside and burst into flames." Something called a "conditioning machine" which looks just like a tedder or side-rake, picked up the alfalfa with its "spinning wire prongs...tossing them in the air. The dried hay landed in neat trows, waiting for the baling machine to scoop it up. By afternoon the baler arrived, bouncing behind the tractor.

On the front, it had metal fingers that combed up the loose alfalfa. as the hay was pressed together inside the machine, strong twine bound it into rectangular bales that moved down a conveyor belt, tumbling onto the ground.

The bales of hay lined up like dominoes across the field. A evening approached...the big truck moved slowly across the field, and the men got busy lifting the heavy bales onto the truck body. Their last stop would be the barn, where the hay would be stacked and stored for the winter." The main "Maine adventure" occurs later that evening when the two young heroines mistake a bear for a bale.

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Eight principles of an effective teacher:

Understand how children learn, support children's use of the 4 cueign systems, create a community of learners, adapt a balanced approach to literacy instruction,....... see you next time for the other four principles....

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Away goe Sally, New York: The MacMillan Company, 1967. "The Salt Hay" has many well observed details of hay making in the marshes. "Sally knew just where to look for Uncle Joseph and Uncle Eben and the three hired men, and quickly recognized their group from among the others at work. Uncle Joseph was leading the mowing with long steady sweeps of his arms, each ending in a sort of jerk, walking forward through a continual slow falling wave of grass and a hiss of steel on dry stalks. The other men had hard work to keep up with him. Uncle Eben had dropped behind and was honing the curved blade of his scythe.
'To cut well, you must sharpen well,' he used to say with a sly wink at Sally. He was fat and lazy. He spent more time sharpening than cutting, but people liked to work with him because he was always jolly............"

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Teachers can teach struggling readers to comprehend what they read. Simply! using the comprehension strategies. One of these strategies is connecting strategy, which is represented by chartsA chart shows facts in a way that is easy to read. Some tips to use a Chart are:
Read the title of the CHART
Read the column headings to find the groups the CHART shows.
Read the Facts in the rows to find exact details.

Comprehension is the understanding and interpretation of what is read. To be able to accurately understand written materail, children nned to be able to decode what they read, make connectionsbetween waht they read and what they already know and think deeplyabout what they have read.

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Also I recomended "Choosing Children's Books" guide next time that you visit the library.
Betsy Hearne offers practical guidance on sorting through the bewildering array of picture books, pop-up books, books for beginning readers, young adult titles, classics, poetry, folktales, and factual books. Each chapter includes an annotated list of recommended titles. A gold mine of commonsense, sound advice, this newly revised and completely updated edition of Betsy Hearne's classic guide is an indispensable tool for choosing books for children of all ages.
Newly available in paperback, this revised and updated third edition of Betsy Hearne's classic guide stands as the lodestar for navigating through the bewildering array of books for young readers.

Hearne surveys everything from picture books, pop-up books, classics, and books for beginning readers to young adult titles, poetry, folktales, and factual books, with an annotated list of recommended titles accompanying each chapter. A gold mine of common sense and sound advice, her guide remains an indispensable tool for choosing books for children of all ages.

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The Littlest Angel

This poignant classic by Charles Tazewell was first published in 1946. The 2004 edition has warm and beautiful paintings by Guy Porfirio to illustrate it. The story is simple and inspiring. A little boy, who has become the littlest angel in heaven, is unhappy and homesick. When the Understanding Angel responds to the littlest angel's request for the box of treasures he left at home, the littlest angel is happy. When he decides to give his box of treasures to the Christ Child, it is a great act of love. However, he fears that his gift is not good enough and experiences great sorrow until God tells him, “I find this small box pleases me most.”
The new illustrations by Guy Porfirio add to the poignancy of the story and create an emotional bond between the reader and the little boy struggling to adjust to his new role as "the littlest angel." Even if you already own another edition of The Littlest Angel, I highly recommend you take a look at this one



Even if you already own another edition of The Littlest Angel, I highly recommend you take a look at this one.

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Without a firm knowledge of vocabulary, students have difficulty retaining meaning and making connections with their reading. Students should be given a phetora of activities to explore new words in meaninful situations, such as word posters and maps, dramatizing words, words sorts, words chains, semantic feature analysis.

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