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Enhancing Literacy and Advancing Deep Learning Through Books Read Aloud.y Those who read success and reading aloud to young people enables them to learn and expand their knowledge of the world without stuggling with reading skills. They can listen and be transporter to other worlds or other parts of the world or right around the corner and participate in stories for the sheer love of listening. This Podcast will include books read aloud, how to use those books and others to deepen learning and how to advance literacy in any age and at any grade level.
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Wednesday May 05, 2021
Wednesday May 05, 2021
In which I try to set out just why it is so important to read aloud to our students, whatever their age, and the skills that are developed and enhanced through reading aloud to them. How do students grow as learners and in literacy by reading good books to them?
Tuesday May 04, 2021
Tuesday May 04, 2021
Wilbur wakes up in the morning and after breakfast he meets Charlotte who is a spider. He can see her in her web and she shows him how she catches flies to eat. But Charlotte can't really see him.
Tuesday May 04, 2021
Tuesday May 04, 2021
Wilbur woke up knowing precisely what he wanted to do but it was a rainy day. So he had to change his plans. He tried to find someone to play with him but no-one was interested in joining him. He spent most of the day listless and uninterested in everything. Lurvey, the hired man, thought he might be sick. Wilbur lay in his spot in the bar and heard a strange new voice who said they would meet in the morning.
Saturday May 01, 2021
Saturday May 01, 2021
Wilbur is egged on by the other animals in the barnyard, especially the goose. He gets out of his pen and then the Zukermans and their helper chase Wilbur around until he goes back to the pen on his own. So much for escape and excitement.
Friday Apr 30, 2021
Friday Apr 30, 2021
In Chapter Two, Charlotte nurtures Wilbur and he begins to thrive and to bond with her. But he has to be sold. Her father refuses to keep her but he suggests that Fern ask her uncle and aunt to buy Wilbur and then foster him. They agree and Wilbur moves to their farm nearby.
Friday Apr 30, 2021
Friday Apr 30, 2021
In Chapter 1, we meet the Arable family. Mr. Arable has just helped deliver a litter of piglets and one of them is a runt. He's going to kill the runt because they usually don't thrive. But his daughter Fern interferes with this and insists she be allowed to help the runt grow. Her father agrees and brings the runt to the house and Fern begins to nurture Wilbur, the name she gives the piglet.
Friday Apr 30, 2021
Friday Apr 30, 2021
In this podcast, I first expound on the link between reading aloud and literacy and then briefly explore how completing activities after reading a book helps the student deepen learning and expand their knowledge and skills to a greater level of literacy. Then I tell you a bit about E. B. White, briefly expound on the plot a bit and finally give you some ideas about how to take the reading of the book and extend and deepen learning with a variety of different activities.
Tuesday Apr 13, 2021
Tuesday Apr 13, 2021
In which, the children go to the Castle at Cair Paravel, sit on the thrones and reign happily for many years and become adults. They forget about where they came from. Then someone brings them word of a White Stag and they go hunting and follow him to where they first entered Narnia, except they don't remember that. They follow until they are back in the wardrobe and return just as they had left without any time having passed. The professor tells them that they will some day return to Narnia, but from a different route.
Tuesday Apr 13, 2021
Tuesday Apr 13, 2021
In which Aslan and the girls go through the caste and Aslan's breathe on the statues breaks the spell and so everyone is revived. Then Aslan gathers his troops and they race to find where the battle is going on. But first, they need the giant to break down the doors of the castle which he does. Then they race to the battle where Peter is fighting the White Witch. Aslan saves the day and the battle is won.
Sunday Apr 11, 2021
Sunday Apr 11, 2021
The girls spend the night mourning the death of Aslan and take his muzzle off and then try to remove the bindings tying him down. They couldn't but little field mice came and nibbled them off so they could remove them. Then Aslan disappears for a short time and returns as good as ever. Deep magic had helped restore him and they take off for the castle of the White Witch.