It has been a weekend of graphic novels. For some reason, there just happened to be three all lined up in my bag on Friday afternoon so I was compelled to finish them.
Skim is the most problematic. It describes a young girl’s journey through a high school year and is full of questions about [...]
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Really? How interesting…
A few weeks ago I posted an entry regarding the various merits or otherwise of audio books. Were they the same as reading, per se? Was it the same experience? Is one better than another?
I came out of a discussion with some staff about the purposes of reading. Why do we make some [...]
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We have a number of assessment items where students are asked to discuss books and reading and the like. For some reason, some of them struggle. (Actually, the reason is that many of them just do not read or read much!)
Yesterday, the English faculty had one of their regular meetings but the focus this time [...]
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It is the English Head of Department’s fault. The book, Gone, was sitting on her desk and I happened to ask her what she had thought of it. I knew another English teacher had raved about it so I was curious. The she told me that she was considering it for inclusion in the Year [...]
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The English Faculty have this Wide Reading Program thing at the moment and it has had some successful moments, like most things. But I thought I would share this one story…
A teacher brought his class in and this particular girl was not keen on reading at all. I had done a presentation to the class [...]
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In the past, English students used to borrow portable cassette recorders from within the department. Now they have been relocated to the Resource Centre.
They can be used within the Resource Centre once borrowed from Circulation. Students need to provide their own tapes and make sure that they get the recording done within the breaks.
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At school, we have started to (again) push the concept of a Wide Reading Program (WRP) with nearly all year levels.
What is the point of these? you may ask…Don’t kids read anyway? Well, maybe but we have little idea about what thye are reading and sometimes we just have to take their word for it, [...]
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