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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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Tuesday Jul 20, 2021
Tuesday Jul 20, 2021
Lily goes into the basement with the star jar and the rice cakes. The tiger eats the rice cakes and doesn't object to them not being exactly as they should be. She then tells Lily another story about another Halmoni and stories and tigers who are angry. Lily struggles to understand. Bu the Tiger leaves her dangling and tells her to return the next night. Lily insists she just wants her harmoni to get better. Lily creeps upstairs and her mother is up and she asks why Lily is up and Lily makes an excuse about being hungry. So her mother opens up the fridge and takes out a container of Kimchi. The two share a moment and Lily's mother says she knows how hard it is for the two girls to deal with what has been going on. Then she notices the jar and tries to remember where and when she saw it. Lily says she just found it among Halmoni's things. They saw good night.
Monday Jul 19, 2021
Monday Jul 19, 2021
Alice Oseman's book is a book for teens stuck between the world of high school and post-secondary education or work. It deals with all the issues confronting that age today through the lens of the technology. that is so much a part of their lives. It is an excellent book to recommend to teen readers exploring issues of identity of all kinds and definitely has a place not the shelf of any library. It begs for discussions with teens but only if they are open to it. It sheds light on the social and emotional and sexual ennui of adolescence.
Monday Jul 19, 2021
Monday Jul 19, 2021
Lily's mother agrees to take her to Ricky's. Ricky lives in a very big house because his father has a very big business. Lily is dropped off and then Ricky and Lily try to make Rice Cakes. Lily is not happy at first but Ricky persuades her that they will be just fine and they do taste good. Lily goes home and her alarm wakes her up at 2:00 in the morning. But Lily wakes to find Sam getting ready to leave using a rope and we are reminded that their mother also escaped from the house. Lily warns Sam to be careful and then she prepares herself to meet the Lion in the basement.
Saturday Jul 17, 2021
Saturday Jul 17, 2021
Roald Dahl's books have been printed 250 million times and he has been considered by The London Times as one of the best authors of children's books of the 20th Century. James and the Giant Peach was one of his earliest books. It tells the fantastical tale of a magic peach grown from magic seeds and inhabited by anthropomorphic insect characters. James and these characters meet and strange events take them across the Atlantic to New York City. Read or listen to the wonderful story and then engage in some of the activities I have outlined in this podcast.
Saturday Jul 17, 2021
Saturday Jul 17, 2021
Lily tells her family in the morning that she wants to make rice cakes and asks about it being a family activity. Halmoni promised to help Lily but Sam has other ideas. She wants to go out and Sam suggests they go to a favorite Korean restaurant. They argue but Sam wins out. When they get to the restaurant, Halmoni orders her favourite sweet and sour dishes but then forgets where she is and causes a stir and they have to leave in a hurry without eating. Lily is sent into the restaurant from the car to pay for their food and gets a bag of take out to go home. At home, she phones Ricky and asks if she can go over to his house.
Friday Jul 16, 2021
Friday Jul 16, 2021
Lily takes one of the star jars down into the basement and puts it in the trap. She falls asleep and when she wakes up, the jar has gone and the tiger is with her but not in the trap. She and the tiger talk about what she is trying to accomplish and the tiger bargains with Lily and tells her that if she listens to a story, it will make things better. The tiger begins to tell her a story about a little girl born with two skins, one human and one animal. But the tiger only tells her part of the story and tells Lily she needs to come to the basement again in the middle of the next night. Lily agrees because the tiger tells her that is the only way she can help her halmoni.
Tuesday Jul 13, 2021
Tuesday Jul 13, 2021
Ramona the Pest is the second in a series of books written by Beverly Cleary. The series as a whole could be considered dated because this book was written in 1968. BUT, there is much that a teacher can do to help her students learn about the past and have fun at the same time. Ramona is beginning Kindergarten and her older sister Beezus is already in Grade 3, Listen to the trials and tribulations of a little girl starting school and trying to be just like her big sister. Ramona is a very active child, to be sure, but the book represents a moment in time that would enable us to talk with our students about how different life and school is today from 40 years ago.
Tuesday Jul 13, 2021
Tuesday Jul 13, 2021
Lily explains to Ricky what the jars are and what they contain. She tries to explain without making Ricky laugh at her so she hides some of the details. The two talk about actually capturing the tiger and using bait to lure it into the trap they have created. Lily desperately wants to keep Ricky as a friend without him believing she is totally crazy. Ricky leaves but Lily realizes the bait to. lure the tiger can be the jars. Sam wants to know more about Ricky and what he means to Lily and why he was there and Lily tries to explain yet again and they talk about the stories that Halomi told them were actually real.
Tuesday Jul 13, 2021
Tuesday Jul 13, 2021
Lily is embarrassed by the presence of Sam and Jensen and doesn't quite know what to say or do. After Lily and Sam dodge those two, they talk about making a trap for the tiger. Ricky comes over to Lily's house to build the trap but doesn't let Sam understand what they are really doing. When they move some boxes around, the stumble upon a box filled with bubble wrapped jars and Lily knows immediately what they are!
Monday Jul 12, 2021
Monday Jul 12, 2021
I explain a bit about the series, C. S. Lewis the author and how you can deepen the learning of the students beyond the plain reading of the text. I give the listener six or seven ideas for meaningful projects that students can engage themselves with after reading the book so as to deepen learning and enhance the objectective of literacy development.