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.

Check this web

http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/Interactive.htm

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pss... pssss! ..... I suggest you read this book

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.

If you visit this web you are going to find the most value information to teaching kids to read and helping those who struggle http://www.readingrockets.org/








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.

Norma G.

www.bookadventure .org
it is a realy helpul web

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There are some things, a texbook won't tell you about fluency. In Texas public schools,


1st. grade should be reading 60 words per minute with unsssen test. 2nd. grade should read 90 words per minute and 3rd grade should read 120 words per minute with unseen text.


Thus, fluency be a big deal! To get children to read and write fluenty offering suggestions and activities to help struggling students. But always remember READING MEANS COMPREHENSION.





I will to recommend to you "One pizza, One Penny" by K.T. Hao, He is considered the founder of moder'n children's literature in Taiwan.

It is a charming portrayal of two friends. Ben Bear is renowned for his perfect pizzas. Chris Croc is famous for his mouthwatering cakes. When the richest man in the world buys a slice of Chris's pizza, he decides to go into business. But as soon as he sets up his roadside stand, Ben sets up one of his own across the street, and the neighbors turn into fierce rivals. Slow business and creeping hunger force the two chefs to come up with a solution that shows that friendship is the best possible nourishment.

Remember, Comprehension is a thinking process that is creative, multifaceted and engaging!

Hasta la vista!
Norma

You are not to believe me how many version of "Cinderella" exist. It is a tradictional story that is different telled in every part around the world.

Every version is a wonderful story for kids.

See you next post.

Norma G.

"Every woman in the tribe wishes to marry the being who lives by the lake, but it is only the Rough-Face Girl--her face scarred from tending fires--who has the knowledge to win him."

This book is another little piece of traditional literature, read it.

Also, visit this web to find more suggestions of literature

http://jmoore-childslit.blogspot.com/2008/04/creative-venn-diagram-snow-white.html

Norma G.

I would share with you some facts about Traditional literature:



- It is transmitted from one generation to another through oral storytelling
- It is narrated mostly
- It has no identified authors
- Traditional literature explained the origin of natural events and reveals the social, political,
and spiritual beliefs of society.

For all of these Traditional literature should be transmitted to students from all levels grades.










Next, I will recommend to you read "The Egyptian
Cinderella". It was the book that I brought to class
today. I chose these book because I found really
interesting to share with the class a diferrent
and original version of Cinderella story.


Enjoy it!

Norma G.

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I will recoment "Could We Be Friends?" book, by Bobbi Katz. I love this book because relate children reflections of their personal experiences in poem form and celebrate community, family and friendship through the poems.

Also, I will recommend to you visit the web below which has a long list of poetry books for kids

https://bpl.org/kids/booklists/poetry.htm

Another wonderful book that was considered the Best book of 2004 by parent magazine was “Pocket Poems” by Bobby Katz.

Most of the poems from this book are short and easy to memorize, which makes the book perfect for kids.

Also, I would like give a little biography about Bobby Katz author. She has been an art historian, a fashion editor, a social worker, the host of "Art in Action," which was a radio talk show, the program director of a community arts council, a contributing author to the Cousteau Society's Environmental Almanac, an editor of educational books, and then, of course children's books. She has taught fiction in college and cleaned apartments in Manhattan. I do all kinds of writing: poetry, picture books, and biographies and essays. For all these she is considerate inspiration for the women.

http://www.renlearn.com/sfr/ Struggling readers, visit this web.

http://pbskids.org/readingrainbow/ It is phenomenal reading website for kids.

Norma G.

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Concerning to chapter 4 I would like to say that it happened each time when my daughter reads a book. She is a 13 years old and she loves to read. I can ensure that she reads almost four chapter books each week.

Although, I like how she is a wonderful reader, but sometimes I was upset with her, because when she reads it looked like as she disappeared of this world. Her passion for the reading submerge her in a fantasy world to the level that she simply ignores everything and everyone around her.

The book that I would like to recommend this time to you is "The lightning thief" by Rick Riordan.

It is the story about twelve-year-old Percy Jackson learns he is a demigod, the son of a mortal woman and Poseidon, god of the sea. His mother sends him to a summer camp for demigods where he and his new friends set out on a quest to prevent a war between the gods.

This book submerged to its readers in a fantasy and adventure world.

Enjoy it!

And visit this web http://www.flread.org/reading it web is wonderful!

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Best Friends Together Again
By: Aliki
Age Level: 6-9
Reading Level: Beginning Reader
Ever since Peter moved away (We Are Best Friends, 1982), he and his best friend Robert have kept in touch. Now that they’re together during Peter’s visit, the boys learn that while some things have changed, others, happily, have stayed the same.



Moving to a new home, new school, and new friends is a turning point experience a kid never forgets. The recommended books in this list for kids ages 0-9 touches on the whole mix of emotions from trepidation to excitement that moving day brings. You'll want to enjoy these warm, funny, empathetic books with your children, whether they're the ones moving or staying behind.

www. readingrockers.org is a wonderful website which for teaching kids to read and helping those who struggle.

Concerning to Comprehension power point, I ensure that comprehension is a vital part of the reading, because if we do not understand what we are reading, it is obvious that we can't express the meaning of it, and if we do not grasp the information then, we would not able to gain kwowledge about what we read. Thus, comprehension is an encounter with the knowledge.

My Dreams Vacations

My dream vacations was when I went to Costa Rica with my family.

The Magic Rabbit

It is a delightful kids story which I am sure you will enjoy reading to your children or Grand children.
The Magic Rabbit is one of those books that becomes one of the memorable childhood storybooks that will for ever stay with you and be a significant part of your upbringing.

The author and illustrator is Annette Le Blanc Cate and the publisher of this fine story book is Walker Books Ltd.
The story is of a rabbit :- Ray and Bunny lived together in a tiny apartment in the city. They
were business partners .Ray was a magician and Bunny was his loyal assistant.
One saturday there was an accident. In the empty streets of the night – time city, Bunny is lost and alone.
Then, among the litter, he finds a glittering stars….. Could a little bit of magic help him to find his way? Annette Le Blanc Cate , in the illustrations of this story book, captures the feelings of a sad and somber lost Bunny, wandering the dark streets of London.

This book for Kids has limited Green Credentials. Ray and Bunny have a very close and relationship. This is encapsulated in the final illustration of the book. It is for this reason that this Kids story book is evaluated as A Touch Green

Enjoy it!

visit the http://www.mossgreenchildrensbooks.co.uk/tag/childrens-story-books/ web, and

http://www.4kids.org/coolspots/ click on "Reading Book", then "Books"

Norma G.

One of the favorite books of my little son is called If You Give A Mouse a Cookie. It was about how if you give a mouse a cookie, then he’s going to ask for a glass of milk. And if you give him the glass of milk, he’s going to ask for a napkin to wipe his mouth. And if he wipes his mouth, he’s going to notice his whisker’s need a trim. Etc., etc., etc.. The gist of the book is that we’re all greedy and if you give us an inch, we’re gonna take a mile.
He is the mouse.

This web is really cool!

http://www.bookadventure.org/

Book Adventure is a FREE reading motivation program for children in grades K-8. Children create their own book lists from over 7,000 recommended titles, take multiple choice quizzes on the books they've read, and earn points and prizes for their literary successes. Book Adventure was created by and is maintained by Sylvan Learning.

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I would underline some important points to help students move through the different stages of reading and writing. which are refering to chapter 4





Read constantly with expression, fluency, and prosody.


Share your favorite insights on the books being read.


Talk to students about literacy, journal when possible.


Set attainable goals and high expectations.


Read and write for children, with children, and allow them to express themselves.


Read Read Read read






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Norma G.

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"Dark Nigh, Sleepy Nigh"
Ilustrations and symple text deeping the slepping habits of animals and humans.











"Henry's Awful Mistake"
This book is when Henry the Duck thinks dinner is almost ready, he spots an ant
in the house. Children and parents alike will love following disaster-prone Henry
through his adventures in cooking

Scope of the day for those dog days of this summer. The dog days of summer will soon descend upon us thanks to author extraordinaire Jeff Kinney

Hello everyone:

Go to Teach a Child to Read, www.succeedtoread.com . This web was dedicated to the
thousands of children who need to improve their reading skills, and to their parents who want
to help them succeed. Next click on "Good books for Kids" and you are going to find a long
list of good bookd for kids. Some exemples are what I mention above

Also this web's contain is really helpful not only for children and their parents but mostly to educators.

Norma G.

Questions??????

Hi Mrs. Pickeet:
First:
I leave a message about your birthday because I noticed that you were born someday on September like to me. and I believe your birthday is close.
Second:
I'm still working about how this horrible thing "the blog" works. Every time that I intend to send something to you or some one else it appeared posted in my blog instead in the other person's blog.
Third: please check comments and you are going to find my comments about Chapter One.
Third:
I really appreciate if you can give to us a little training about how it works next class. I want to delete the other class because I already opened another blog for it, but I can't.

I will really appreciate your help.

Norma G.

Happy Birthday Mrs. Pickett

HAPPY BHIRTDAY!

Mrs. Pickett

From: Norma G.

Do you like it?

Just trying

It is for myself, I'm still trying to know how it works