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May/June 2007
Volume 1, Issue 5
'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 For Everyone!
"For school-age children with
disabilities, print-based textbooks and educational
materials can present profound barriers to learning. In
contrast, digital learning environments and materials can
present the same content as printed textbooks but in ways
that are flexible and therefore more accessible. Yet while
existing research has shown the promise of computer-based
multimedia to support the learning of students with
disabilities, no means exists to provide individualized,
pedagogically sound learning materials to students on a
widespread basis."
Cast Universal Design for
Learning Website
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Reading-Comprehension Strategies for Adolescents
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... Through Instructional Improvements:
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Recess for Teachers:
Swimming is a great exercise
for everyone. Swimming is low impact and burns
calories like crazy. You can get a great workout with
just a bathing suit and goggles. Add fins, a high tech
speed suit and you will swim in the Olympics. There is
great swimming at the beach (Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!), but Cape
Cod is great. Walden Pond is a half mile swim across and a
half mile back (unless you choose to walk) and there are some wonderful lap pools at the
YMCA and at Greater Lowell Technical.
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Swimming can:
- Help raise your metabolism and burn fat.
- Make you stronger and increase muscular
endurance.
- Improve coordination and balance.
- Help you get in shape while being a low
impact.
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Getting Started:
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Recommended Student Book:
Recommended by Bob Dick
for one more day
by Mitch Albom
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We will be teaching this novel
to our freshman students next year. Mitch Albom is a
terrific writer, who also wrote
Tuesday's With Morrie.
Charlie's been drunk
so often and disappointed his daughter so many times that
she doesn't invite him to her wedding. He even fails at his
suicide. Or does he? When his deceased mother returns to
love him unconditionally for one more day, he's not quite
sure what's going on. The author reads his book with a deep,
resonant voice that matches the sentimental sermonizing in
the story. Albom's narration singsongs as Charlie reflects
on his mother's past support, his own failings, and the
events of a confusing present in which he relishes his
mother's care and sees his own life clearly for the first
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Recommended
Staff Book:
Recommended by Bob Dick
Infidel
by Ayann Hirsi Ali
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"I am Ayaan,
the daughter of Hirsi, the son of Magan."
In the first scene of
Infidel, Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a child of 5, sitting on a grass
mat. Her grandmother is teaching her to recite the names of
her ancestors, as all Somali children must learn to do. "Get
it right," her grandmother warns. "They are your bloodline.
. . . If you dishonor them you will be forsaken. You will be
nothing. You will lead a wretched life and die alone."
From The Washington Post's Book World/washingtonpost.com
Reviewed by Anne Applebaum
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Links to Interesting
Websites & Past Issues:
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