January 2008     Volume 2, Issue 1 'Reading Leadership Team'

Reading Strategically and other fun stuff!!
 


 

       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'
  • 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 (rdick@gltech.org).

Reading Tip of the Month:

    

Reading-Comprehension Strategies for Adolescents ...
        ...  Through Instructional Improvements: 

Read Actively, Not Passively

    It might be a text book, a work of fiction, a poem, an essay, an article from a journal or magazine, or even a class handout that needs to be read. Don't just read the text straight through without thinking about what you're reading.

Highlight the Text in the Margin

   There are many tricks to help students read actively. One, of course, is to highlight important or interesting passages. There are several ways to do this. Students need help understanding what should be underlined or highlighted.  Practice with them.

A slightly less messy, but equally useless, technique is to use a pen or pencil to underline important or interesting passages. Students may wind up underlining every sentence on every page, and they will have gained nothing.

Make Notes in the Margin

If there is room, have students write in the margins of their books.  They will need help through this process.

Keep a Notebook

Highlighting has the disadvantage that it can lead you to highlight everything, and margins have the disadvantage that they are often too small for making comments. And sometimes we don't want the students to write in the books. The best technique for active reading is to keep a notebook.  
 
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http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/howtostudy.html-20071126 

 

 

Recess for Teachers:

If you want to lose fat or change your body, one of the most important things you can do is lift weights. Diet and cardio are equally important, but when it comes to changing how your body looks, weight training wins hands down. If you've hesitated to start a strength training program, it may motivate you to know that lifting weights will not make you suddenly look like those awful cartoon characters on magazine covers!

 

WEIGHT LIFTING CAN........

  • Help raise your metabolism. Muscle burns more calories than fat, so the more muscle you have, the more calories you'll burn all day long.
  • Strengthen bones, especially important for women
  • Make you stronger and increase muscular endurance
  • Help you avoid injuries
  • Increase your confidence and self-esteem
  • Improve coordination and balance

 

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Getting Started:

Weight Training eBooks

Weight Training Basics
by Thomas D. Fahey
Weight Training For Dummies
by Liz Neporent
Weight Training Workouts that Work
by James Orvis

Weight Training Workouts that Work: Volume II
by James Orvis

The Gold's Gym Guide to Getting Started in Bodybuilding
by Ed Housewright
Recommended Student Book:
Recommended by Bob Dick
 
Snowed In (Paperback)
by Rachel Hawthorne (Author)
Another wonderful teen romance book by Rachel Hawthorne. The story focuses on 16 year old Ashleigh Sneaux and how she adjusts to small town life. She has a "sample-every-guy-and-commit-to-no-one" kind of outlook on relationships, but she finds that hard to stand by when she meets....

 

Good winter reading when there is 2 feet of snow outside.
 

 
Recommended Staff Book:
Recommended by Bob Dick

 The Eiger Obsession: Facing the Mountain that Killed My Father (Hardcover)
by John Harlin (Author)
 

 I came across this book in Barnes and Noble bookstore.  As a teenager, I read the book entitled Diretissma, which was written about John Harlin II's summit assault of the Eiger.  His father was killed trying the climb in the most direct route.  The Eiger Obsession caught my eye immediately and I had to read it.

An absorbing tale of adventure and exorcising personal demons. John Harlin III is an outdoorsman and mountain climber and successfully navigated climbing the face of the Eiger, where his own father had died some forty years earlier.

 

Links to Interesting Websites,  Past Issues & News from the Team:

 

News from the Team

This year (beginning mid January) the Reading Leadership Team will have a small “corner” of the library for professional journals and literature relating to reading  strategies, recommended readings and critical literacy.
Sampling of Books

 Past Issues: 2007

 

 Reading Links Fitness Links

 

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