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Seven prior years of teaching intermediate elementary students has taught me the importance of giving students their own copy of a novel as I read out loud to them. Hearing how words should be pronounced and discussing their meaning as we read them together is very powerful. Language learners learn best through visual and providing them their own copy of a book gives them the opportunity to learn in this way.
I am requesting books to support a common theme interwoven throughout the entire year. Each book selected carefully crafts and delivers the importance of working together towards a common goal. The books that I have selected are engaging, fun and perfectly suited for meaningful conversation and written reflection. Not only will students learn about the importance of community through narrative, but as we read together, community organically and magically unfolds within the classroom.
There are three class sets of books I would like to provide my students. We will open the year with Peak written by Roland Smith. The main character in this book, Peak, learns the importance of relationships and understands that extreme achievement only occurs with the help of others. The next book I plan to read is Blood on the River written by Elisa Carbone. Captain Smith takes teaches Samuel the lesson of standing on ‘multiple legs’ when it comes to surviving in a new world. The last book I plan to read with my class is A Long Walk to Water written by Linda Sue Park. This very inspiring, heart felt novel is based on a true story and is taught through dual narrative. Nya’s story narrates the search for clean water and Salva’s explains his survival during the savage Sudanese Civil War. Both characters, regardless of hardship, never lose sight of idealistic goals.
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Seven prior years of teaching intermediate elementary students has taught me the importance of giving students their own copy of a novel as I read out loud to them. Hearing how words should be pronounced and discussing their meaning as we read them together is very powerful. Language learners learn best through visual and providing them their own copy of a book gives them the opportunity to learn in this way.
I am requesting books to support a common theme interwoven throughout the entire year. Each book selected carefully crafts and delivers the importance of working together towards a common goal. The books that I have selected are engaging, fun and perfectly suited for meaningful conversation and written reflection. Not only will students learn about the importance of community through narrative, but as we read together, community organically and magically unfolds within the classroom.
There are three class sets of books I would like to provide my students. We will open the year with Peak written by Roland Smith. The main character in this book, Peak, learns the importance of relationships and understands that extreme achievement only occurs with the help of others. The next book I plan to read is Blood on the River written by Elisa Carbone. Captain Smith takes teaches Samuel the lesson of standing on ‘multiple legs’ when it comes to surviving in a new world. The last book I plan to read with my class is A Long Walk to Water written by Linda Sue Park. This very inspiring, heart felt novel is based on a true story and is taught through dual narrative. Nya’s story narrates the search for clean water and Salva’s explains his survival during the savage Sudanese Civil War. Both characters, regardless of hardship, never lose sight of idealistic goals.