Choices for Global Read Aloud 2015 #GRA15

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The Global Read Aloud

While i may be the creator of the Global Read Aloud, this project would be nothing without the amazing authors that give us such incredible books to share.  So in case you need a handy reference guide for which books we are reading this year, here you.

Author Study:

This year’s author study is the incredible Amy Krouse Rosenthal.  Her picture books have long enthralled all of my students and aIso I am so happy to have her and her genius be the focus this year.  Remember, this is not just open to younger grades, anyone can do the author study!  All images will link to the actual book on Amazon.

Week 1:

We start with Chopsticks

Week 2:

Week 2 is all about Duck!  Rabbit!

Week 3:

How many times do I hear It’s Not Fairin my house!

Week 4:

Week 4 will focus on the trials…

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Chunky in Heat

‘Her thighs spread across the vinyl ropes of the lawn chair. In the heat they seem to melt into the plastic, seeping out from under her shorts, slipping through the vinyl as though eventually she’ll begin dripping fat onto the lawn’ A. M. HOMES

My favorite words

CRAFTING EFFECTIVE WRITING. JOURNAL WRITING.

TASK:

In your journal, write down a list of at least five to ten nouns and five to ten adjectives as you observe a scene at home, work or in your community. Add verbs amd adverbs- Add a couple of sentences using all of them.

NOUNS                             VERBS                         ADJECTIVES                           ADVERBS

downside                           emerge                        bound                                    bitterly

fracture                              grow                            laid-back                                distinctly

anchor light                        beep                           simultaneous                         rapidly

hustle                                  move                          sure                                        unusually

bustle                                  inspect                        tardy                                       early

riser                                     regret                          shabby                                    steadily

I bitterly regret not to rapidly emerge from my shabby bed as an early riser should steadily do when my alarm for six beeps unusually and all the simultaneous hustle and bustle of Aachen life grow in size like a sure fracture between day and night. On the bound downside, my laid-back snow-bound attitude is like a leap in the dark without an anchor light. I am always  tardy.

‘Your product

‘Your product is you. The crucial transaction in memoir and family history is the transaction between you an your remembered experiences and emotions’
William Zinsser

Willian Zinsser is a lifelong journalist and nonfiction writer. He began his career on the New York Herald Tribune in the late forties. He is also a teacher. His best known book is ‘On Writing Well’