Goals


 

 

 

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The activities on this site are designed to meet a wide variety of goals for students.

 

Language Arts

  • Motiviating students to enjoy reading through engaging and exciting literature activities.
  • Improving reading and reading comprehension skills through practice.
  • Developing the concepts of basic story structure elements through the use of story web and plot diagrams.
  • Creating text to text connections through comparisons of different books about the main character, as well as student writings.
  • Creating text to self connections through discussion and journaling.
  • Responding to literature in a wide variety of ways.
  • Improving writing skills in both mechanics and the writing process though practice.
  • Writing to communicate through journaling and Blogging.
  • Writing directions through the use of a powerpoint starter.
  • Writing to inform about a choice animal.
  • Creative Writing through use of online interactive story maps to create new stories.
  • Persuasive Writing through Book Talks.
  • Motivating students to enjoy writing through engaging and exciting writing activities.
  • Information
  • Inquiry and Information skills through through researching, webbing, and writing about an animal of choice.
  • Technology

    • Use of online interactive software through the Story Elements Interactive and the Read Write Think sites.
    • Use of a digital Camera.
    • Posting and Commenting on a class Blog.
    • Creating Powerpoint Presentations throught the use of a Starter.

    Crititcal Thinking

    • Students build crititcal thinking skills throughout all of these activities.