Edrg 3321 Monday Night 730-900

Edrg 3321 Monday Night 730-900

Sorry Mrs. Pickett, but I've kind of always had a thing for poetry. But only for poetry that is easy and fun. I've always hated the poems that seem like they're talking about one thing but in actuallity they're talking about another. Poetry can be very complicated and other times it can be extremely pleasurable and fun. When I think of poems I think of rhythm and rhyming. Chapter 5 talks about how these two aspects are two of the salient ones in poetry. These two aspects are what attract young readers to poetry and have made common attractions to Mother Goose, jump rope songs, and other rhyming games like patty cake. We learned these at such a young age and it is important in my opinion that we continue to teach our students poetry.












Author Profile: Bill Harley
Dirty Joe the pirate is a great children's book and Bill Harley does an excellent job retelling this unbelievable true story. This book is about a pirate named Joe who was known for capturing ships like all pirates do. Only this pirate left his trade mark by also capturing the socks of all of the other shipmates . He would hang the socks on his ship and on his body, hence the name Dirty Joe. One day he sets his eyes on another ship that is also controlled by a female pirate. This female pirate ends up taking Dirty Joe's ship and does the unthinkable. She robs his crew of their underpants and hangs them
from her ship. This pirates name was Stinky Annie and she ends up being his sister. Harley tells the whole story in a rhyme and takes the true story and turns it into a funny one. Bill Harley has a great website that is really easy to navigate through. It contains biographical information on him as well as information about his work. http://www.billharley.com/

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edrg 3321 monday night

an important thing that stuck out to me in chapter 4 was the section on interests. we all know that the curriculum that is taught has certain requirements that calls for certain pieces of literature to be read in class. many of these pieces of lit are just plain out boring. we all remember how it was in highschool. we were all forced to read stuff that we didn't care about or had no interest in. this is where many teachers make the mistake of assuming that their students don't have good comprehension skills and unecessry labels get placed on them. this is sad because their comprehension level isn't the problem, it's the literature that is the problem. the students are choosing to not comprehend because they have no interest in what is going on. teachers need to really know what their students enjoy and what exciting things that everyone is talking about so that they are able to integrate that into the literature. ms. pickett uses the example of twilight all the time, she must really have a thing for that vampire. lmao :) but it's a great example because if students are in to that at the time, then you may as well integrate it into your lesson. anything can be made instructional so we need to just need to use our imagination and make literature fun in all grades.

author profile: Phillip Yates

A Pirate's Night Before Christmas by Phillip Yates is an extraordinary entertaining book that reinvents The Night Before Christmas by Clement C. Moore. Rather than children waiting at home for santa, Yates comes up with a brilliant idea by having a group of grown pirates wait up for a legendary pirate to bring them christmas gifts. The robbing and killing is out the window for this group of pirates as they celebrate the arrival of their gifts. This santa claus impersonator comes out of the water being pulled on a sled by sea horses. the pirates rejoice, sing, and feast as they celebrate christmas. this is a great story filled with rhymes and laughter. Yates does a really good job. Phillip Yates has a great website with a lot of surprising information about him. You will find that he was a class clown in elementary school and often got into a lot of trouble. You will also find that his father directed "American Bandstand" and Phillip had the oppurtunity to meet the beach boys. Check out the url. http://cynthialeitichsmith.blogspot.com/2008/11/author-interview-philip-yates-on.html

3321 Lit For Public Schools Monday Night

Chapter focuses on reading comprhension, vocabulary. Both of these words coexists. If a student can't read the vocabulary then they will definitely not be able to comprehend what they are reading. Many teachers make the mistake of just having their students answer comprehension questions. Many times the students suffer because they struggle so much with reading vocabulary and their comprehension is even worse. Chapter 3 gives solid methods and strategies that can help build a student's comprehenision. There is retelling which the student retails the story the way they interpreted it or understood it. There is also story maps in which the students are able to draw out segments of the story. There is also comic strips which also allows students to draw out segments of the story. They do this by folding the paper into segments and making it look like a real comic strip. All of these strategies are helpful to students. I remember struggling when I was younger with reading comprehension. But one of my issues was not having any reinforcement after I read. Hopefully teachers are implementing these methods and strategies during reading time.

James Ibarra
Monday Night

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Edrg 3321

Whats up class. I hope everyone's week was great. Well unfortunately I still haven't had my book delivered yet so I'm not able to blog about the chapter. The book should be here by Sept 15th. I hope I'm not the only one with this problem. However I was able to find a few helpful websites for my author profile. The author I'm doing the profile on is Margret Rey. Her and her husband are co-authors in the series of children's books called Curious George. On this site http://www.lib.usm.edu/~degrum/html/research/findaids/DG0812f.html, there was a lot of biographical information and other helpful background information. Another one of the websites also contained some baxkground information as well as how Curious George came about. Really interesting stuff. That site is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margret_Rey. The last site I looked up was a very user friendly site. It had links to other games, activities, books, and other cool features. It also had a little passage on the home page that talked about how they were able to write such a good book. The reason thatMargret Rey gives is that she looked to the child within herself. She also says that she just thought about what kind of books she would have liked as a child. The link to this site is http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/features/cgsite/history.shtml. Well that's it for me. See everyone in class.
I know I said my book hadn't came in yet but i just checked the mail and there it was in a package. One thing I found interesting about this chapter is that it talks about how one teacher told another teacher that not all students could learn. If a teacher thinks like that then she needs to retire or get another job. All students can learn but it is up to the teacher on how to differentiate the instruction so that it meets every students needs. Chapter 2 was interesting too. It talks about how teachers need to realize that we are going to have all different kinds of cultures in their classroom and it is up to us to be familiar with them all. This will allow us as teachers to better serve our students and not place inappropriate labels on them due to their cultural background.

blog 1 here ya go 3321 edrg Monday night

3321 EDRG
Monday night

So we were asked to google 3 chidren's literature authors and I chuckled when I came across names that I've heard before, but couldn't quite remember who they were. The first name that caught my eye was Pamela Lyndon Travers. She was born August 9, 1899. She was a very talented woman. She was and actress, journalist, and a writer. In case you don't recognize the name, she was the author who wrote the popular series of novels called Mary Poppins. I remember watching that when I was younger. That magical nanny was very entertaining.
The next person I came across was J.M. Barrie. This author was born on May 9 1860. He was a scotish author and dramatist. In case you didn't know he was the famous man who wrote Peter Pan, which is one of everyone's favorite. COOL FACT- We all know that Peter Pan was about a boy who never wanted to grow up. Barrie actually got the inspiration from his friends who didn't want to grow up either so he based it on them. He is also said to have popularized the name Wendy who was another character in Peter Pan. Wendy was supposedly an uncommon name back then.
The last one is my favorite. Gary Paulsen who is the author of many books but to me is most famous for the Hatchet and The River. The Hatchet is about a boy named Brian who goes on a plane to visit his father. The plane ends up going down in the forest killing the pilot and Brian is forced to survive alone with nothing but a hatchet. This was the one book that I remember being able to picture so vividly while I was reading it. The River is a sequel to the Hatchet and it is great too. I think there are even a couple of more parts as well. Thanks Gary. lol