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April 2007
Volume 1, Issue 4 'Reading
Leadership Team'
Reading Strategically
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SITE
DESIGNED AS A PLACE TO:
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Share strategies to help students understand what they are reading.
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Help each other with concerns and solutions to problems.
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Share good books.
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Help make our students proficient readers and test takers.
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Help make teachers healthier.
INFORMATION ABOUT THIS SITE:
- Funded by the
'Secondary School Reading Grant Program'
- New issue published each month.
- All
administrators, teachers, and staff members will
have the
opportunity to share on this site.
- Comments,
suggestions, articles, websites, and book
reviews
should be sent to
Bob Dick.
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Reading Tip of the Month:
We Can Improve Reading!
In fact, we must
help our students read. According to statistics, more than eight
million children in grades 4-12 are struggling readers.
More than three thousand school children drop out of high
school nation-wide everyday. A shocking 53 percent of high school
graduates must enroll in remedial courses in postsecondary
education. Many 21st century jobs will require most high school
graduates in the United States to attend some
college.
The Challenge:
Academic Failure Among Secondary Students
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Reading-Comprehension Strategies for Adolescents
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... Through Instructional Improvements:
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Recess for Teachers:
Hiking in New England
is a wonderful activity. There are some great
mountains like Mount Washington, some smaller mountains like
Mount Monadnock and some really nice places along the
Merrimac River, The Lowell-Dracut-Tyngsboro State Forest and
the Beaver Brook Conservation Land in Hollis, New Hampshire.
Hiking and trekking can be done at any speed and can be done
over any terrain. There are many places in
our own backyard or across the country. Within
steps of the school, you can find deer, beavers and eagles
as you hike through the woods.
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Hiking can:
- Help raise your metabolism.
- Make you stronger and increase muscular
endurance .
- Improve coordination and balance.
- Help you breathe in some good, clean air.
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Getting Started:
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Recommended Student Book:
Recommended by Bob Dick
Shark Girl
by
Kelly L. Bingham
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A teenager struggles through physical loss to
the start of acceptance in an absorbing, artful novel at
once honest and insightful, wrenching and redemptive.
On a sunny day in June, at the beach with her mom and
brother, fifteen-year-old Jane Arrowood went for a swim. And
then everything - absolutely everything - changed. Now she's
counting down the days until she returns to school with her
fake arm, where she knows kids will whisper, "That's her -
that's Shark Girl," as she passes. In the meantime there are
only questions: Why did this happen? Why her? What about her
art? What about her life? In this striking first novel,
Kelly Bingham uses poems, letters, telephone conversations,
and newspaper clippings to look unflinchingly at what it's
like to lose part of yourself - and to summon the courage it
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Recommended
Staff Book:
Recommended by Bob Redding & Steve O'Connor
The Road by
Cormac McCarthy
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A searing, post-apocalyptic novel destined to
become Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece.
A father and his son walk alone through burned America.
Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the
wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow
falls it is gray. They sky is dark. Their destination is the
coast, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits
them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend
themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road,
the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food-and
each other.
The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey.
It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in
which the father and his son, "each the other's world
entire," are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of
its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and
the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness,
desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people
alive in the face of total devastation. |
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Links to Interesting
Websites & Past Issues:
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