February 7

Author Marc Tyler Nobleman visits our school

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What can I say? I’m a sucker for a good author visit!
MTN didn’t disappoint!

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My students in the assembly…rocking their
active listening skills!

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   Questions and answers!

 Mr. Nobleman blogged about his visit to ERMS yesterday! Check it out here to see what cool things he had to say about us!

And HERE is the official Bill the Boy Wonder Book Trailer that Mr. Nobleman spoke about in his presentation yesterday!

You can purchase your own copy of Bill The Boy wonder, HERE!

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December 19

Technology Troubles & Author Tweet!

Sometimes technology in the classroom disappoints us and that’s frustrating for students and teachers alike. Especially when we have a brand new cart full of awesome GOOGLE Chrome Books to use for the first time but our school’s server doesn’t want to cooperate (personification!). But we won’t let that stop us from pushing forward with our research! It’s also hard to be too disheartened when the same technology did allow something cool to happen today!

I just shared with Block 4/8 that author Chris Lehman knows that we are using his text to guide our research methods. Thanks to the wonderful world of Twitter, which I am still learning how to use in the classroom, Lehman “retweeted” and “favorited” a “tweet” from another teacher here. And the author read it! We kind of feel a little special and famous today. 

Here’s a screenshot of our first five minutes of fame:
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Maybe we can even get him to comment on our class blog! Stay tuned!

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December 16

Beware! Opinion disguised as Fact!

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Now that we’ve checked books (on our topic) out of the library, it’s important that we’re careful as we read to check the author’s claims. Even though the writing is in print, writers are still humans and humans have opinions, beliefs and personal biases you need to identify as you read. You should be trying to read critically and carefully so you don’t automatically believe everything you see in print.

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December 16

Nonfiction Strategy: Annotation

We have been learning that reading nonfiction/informational texts requires a different set of skills than fiction. We’ve been switching gears a little from discussing ways to enjoy a good novel to ways to get the most out of all different types of nonfiction. We are doing this to ready ourselves for our nonfiction sources for our research article. Here is some of what we learned in class: annotation 1annotation 2

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