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Students participating in literature circle
discussions and sharing their role sheets |
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Chicken Sunday |
Aunt Chip and the Triple Creek Dam Affair |
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Some Birthday! |
My Rotten Red-Headed Older Brother |
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Students were all required to complete a “teacher
assigned” extension project, which was to create a
new book cover for the book he/she read. The book
covers needed to include the title, author’s name
and an illustration on the front and a story summary
on the back. Student’s then made themselves holding
the book covers and wrote their opinions of the book
in a speech bubble for others to read. |
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Close up of book cover project |
Hall display of book cover projects |
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“Choice” extension projects were also completed by
each child. Students were given a list of project
ideas for their books. Students worked in pairs or
by themselves. Projects ranged from poems to games
to dioramas to bookmarks. |
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Samples of "Choice" Extension Projects Completed by
Students |
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Some students chose to create bookmarks illustrating
a character or part of the story. The bookmarks also
included story summaries.
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After reading Some Birthday!, some students created
birthday cards with birthday poems written inside.
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This is a hat from Mr. Kodinski’s shop in the book
Chicken Sunday. This hat was made with a bowl and a
plate. Then the student wrote an advertisement for
the hat.
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Several students chose to work with partners to
create a game about their story. Story characters
were used as the game pieces and story events were
used to move ahead or lose a turn!
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This poem is about Mary Connor’s sister. She decided
to write a poem about her sibling after reading My
Rotten Red-Headed Older Brother.
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Sarah Beth was very creative in making her story
diorama for My Rotten Red-Headed Older Brother. She
made it so she can really make Richie jump higher
than Tricia, just like in the story!
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This diorama about Some Birthday! shows the monster
coming out of the lake!! Students wrote about the
part of the story illustrated through the dioramas.
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If Sydney had a store like Mr. Kodinski, she would
sell purses instead of hats. She made a purse and
wrote a commercial to persuade people to buy it for
only $10.99!
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