Friday, September 30, 2011

Reading: No-Tech to Hi-Tech



My students just began reading Funny in Farsi by Firoozeh Dumas.  I always start by giving students the handmade bookmarks above.  I want them to know why I'm excited about reading, and we talk about the quotes on the bookmarks.  We are reading the paper book (I did encourage students to purchase ebooks if they wanted, but no one did), and we are also doing a lot of supplementing with technology that I think makes for a much richer experience.

Here's some of what we've done so far:
Some things we are going to do:
Through this all, we'll be having face-to-face discussions in book club groups and sharing, laughing, and learning from each other!

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