Title I Poetry

We are enjoying our voicethread so much, we decided to do a Title I Poetry blog too! On Friday, May 7th we had a wonderful "Parents, Poems, and Pizza Event" for our Title I families. During that time we performed some poems, read some other poems and finally wrote some poetry with our families. Now we are working to get all those poems voiced on voicethread.

Hope you will visit and listen in! You are welcome to make a comment from your computer. Sign up is free and easy. This is also a moderated thread so all comments are approved by me before they go 'live'.

http://voicethread.com/#q.b1129702.i6059864

May - a perfect time for an e-book!

Did you know that we have had over 640 hits for our Sylvan Dell ebooks pages? Hope that you and your family have enjoyed some of these stories online. This is truly cutting edge technology that delivers beautiful texts right to your home computer while reinforcing math and science concepts for your child.

We are thrilled to have over 50 comments on our PES voicethread. Your family can sign up for a free voicethread account and your child (or you) can add a comment about one of these titles right from home. Take a few minutes and listen in as our youngest learners practice 'book talks'. Then make one of your own!

I shared the voicethread link with the folks at Sylvan Dell and they said:

• May 2, 2010
• Thanks very much for showing me this! I forwarded your email to all of our staff, and everyone agreed they were quite cute. Thanks for making us smile today!
  
  Best
  
  Erica Beyerl
  School & Library Sales
  
  Sylvan Dell Publishing
  976 Houston Northcutt Blvd., Suite 3
  Mount Pleasant, SC 29464

The web does make it possible to read to and respond to the greater community!

Here is the voicethread in progress. If you have read any of these titles or enjoyed the story as an e-book , you are welcome to leave a comment at Voicethread. You simply click the comment button beneath the photo, and you can either type in your response OR use your microphone to speak about the book.

(see blog entry above for updated link!!!)

We will begin having students discuss their favorite books here soon, so check back!

21st Century Literacy is a rich way for students to share what they are reading and writing!

Happy Reading!

Now we are linking to Voicethread...

As students begin reading these wonderful books we will be posting their comments on our Voicethread account. This will 'grow' as we explore how to post both book comments in text and then move to using our voice through the microphone. For now, a few friends have been quoted talking about books they have read.

Look for the link early next week to see and hear about some terrific books!

P.S. We have had a discussion about what makes a good book comment. Our goal is to share something about the book but not the entire story. Students are not able to participate if they have been doing "FAKE READING" . Carrying a book around and looking at the illustrations doesn't help you 'sell' the book to the next reader!