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January 15, 2007
Volume 1, Issue 1 'Reading
Leadership Team'
 Reading
Strategically
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SITE
DESIGNED AS A PLACE TO:
- Share strategies to
help students understand what they are reading.
- Help each other with
concerns and solutions to problems.
- Share good books.
- Help make our students
proficient readers and test takers.
- Help make teachers
healthier.
INFORMATION ABOUT THIS SITE:
- Funded by the
'Secondary School Reading Grant Program'
- Updated every two weeks.
- All administrators, teachers and staff
members will have the opportunity to share on
the 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!
Reading Next: Implement elements of an effective literacy
intervention
- Teach comprehension strategies to
struggling readers.
- Give struggling readers more time during
the school day to work on reading and
writing.
- Use books at a variety of difficulty
levels and on a variety of topics.
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Reading-Comprehension Strategies for Adolescents:
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Recess for Teachers:
The balcony of the gym offers
Stairmaster machines, treadmills and stationary bikes.
A 40 minute workout meets daily exercise requirements.
The machines are equipped with timers and calories
burned. After school, you can watch basketball practices or
games while you workout.
Getting Started:
The All-Spin Zone:
Stationary-bike workouts are taking off |
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Recommended Student Book:
Recommended by Bob Dick
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Walter Mosley
Little,
Brown and Company
ISBN-10: 0316016357
ISBN-13: 9780316016353
240 pages
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Read a Review & Excerpt
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Buy from Amazon.com
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Recommended
Staff Book:
Recommended by Bob Dick
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Available in our library |
Teacher Man by Frank McCourt
From Booklist
In another easily embraceable memoir by the
best-selling (and Pulitzer Prize-winning) author of
Angela's Ashes (1996) and 'Tis (1999), McCourt
now concentrates on his career as a teacher for many years
in the New York City public school system, where he worked
in four different high schools. His trademark charm, wit,
and unself-conscious self-effacement ensure that the
flashbacks of his dreadful days growing up in extreme
deprivation in Ireland don't sink the narrative in
self-pity. Remembrances of his struggling days in college in
New York ("dozing years") provide informative foundation for
the real point of the book: relating his development into
the kind of teacher he became--namely, one who shares his
life stories not only to establish bridges of experience
with his students but also to get them to open up......
Brad Hooper
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