Thursday, December 6, 2007

Competency #9 Internet

Competency #9 Internet


I searched Dogpile to find information about online book clubs for children. I discovered a public library site where students can discuss what they have been reading. Lists of books are also available as well as new featured selections.

Multimedia

Competency #8 Multimedia


This is not a very exciting graph but I included it because during my teaching career I have had parents want to know how to gage the level of the book their child is reading. In keeping with my topic of "Connecting Kids to Books" I thought that the Fry Readability Chart/Graph would be a help.

Competency #7 Social Networking


You can view a crazy picture of me at
http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.create&editor=false
or better yet, since there really isn't much there, here is the picture.

S1 + S2 + S3 fluency retrieved 6 hits. The S1 serach for reading aloud produced the Read Aloud Handbook by Jim Trelease which has relevant information and titles of books. S1 + S2 produced an interesting hit, Classics to Read Out Loud to Your Children by William R. Russell. When all the terms were combined there were several relevant hits out of the 6 retrieved.

Competency # 6 Specific Facet First, contin...


S2 was reading comprehension and it retrieved 202 hits some of which were very relevant.