The Joe and Rika Mansueto Library Grand Reading Room, which seats 180, will be fully accessible to University of Chicago faculty, students and staff beginning on May 16. A formal dedication ceremony for the library will be held on Tuesday, October 11.
Librarians will need to cherish their special talent as “stewards” while letting go of the instinct to be “collectors.” Knowledge in physical form needs to be preserved and curated. But with digital information pouring into iPhones and Kindles in petabytes, libraries need to rethink old habits. They cannot collect everything, or even a small fraction of everything.
There are a few considerations you should make while looking for good childrens books. You must first confirm that the books are suitable for your childs age.
This is a fun game to play with a pair of dice. Read a story and help recall the various features of the story with this creative activity.
Reading is a matter of making sense of written language rather than decoding print to sound. It is the process by which we make sense of a text.
As you complete reading tasks, you get to color them in!
Can I vent for a second? I am not big on pearl-clutching. I am not typically prudish. I TRY not to be a whiner. I don't seek out things to get angry or
In my oh-so-humble opinion, there is no better way to start the morning than with an inspirational quote. It’s not because I can’t get through the day without this quirky habit- it’s just that I love
When I was in high school, back when dinosaurs roamed the earth, my English teachers told me what to think about the texts we read. They would assign texts and corresponding questions. We would answers the questions, go over the answers and then memorize said answers when test time came. It was all about regurgitation, […]
Library Escape Rooms are really big right now, so I tried to design this program so that any library can try to duplicate it. Because making something like this is kinda daunting–where do yo…
Library Escape Rooms are really big right now, so I tried to design this program so that any library can try to duplicate it. Because making something like this is kinda daunting–where do yo…
We've started learning about the reading comprehension strategy, Inferring, this week. I L.O.V.E teaching inferring!! It's so fun to see the kids' gears turning and putting the pieces together to figure out what's really going on!
Want your students to have rich, complex conversations about the texts they read? This method leads to the kinds of classroom discussions you thought only happened in college.
OK, I know everyone is busy preparing for the big week next week - or maybe you're super organized and you're all ready to go - but I wanted...
This blog post uses the cupcake analogy to define and explain story themes. Just as creme can be hidden inside the cupcake, the theme is hidden inside a story. This blog post includes free posters, too!
The escape room that we made last year was so much fun that I knew that we had to do it again. But we can’t just do the same one, that would be boring and kids would already know most of the…
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We all know the importance of reading stories in the the classroom. They can build background knowledge on a topic being discussed. It is a great way to increase vocabulary. Students get excited about learning. Plus, you can increase students reading and listening comprehension. I want to challenge you to go beyond they everyday read ... Read More about Interactive Read Aloud
Use Escape Rooms in ELA to promote collaboration and critical thinking. Here's how to develop and set up a successful escape room for your students.
Citing evidence from a text is a big deal in Common Core and in Constructed Response Testing. I introduced some third graders to this idea a few weeks back as they were learning about genres. Students read an excerpt from "Tops and Bottoms", and then wrote a formulaic response to it. One student wrote: "Tops and Bottoms" is a fantasy text. Fantasy storys include elements that are impossible. For example, the athr rote "I'm hungry," Bear said. This author of this three-sentence text response did several things: Made a claim: Determined the genre of the text. Described the genre. Cited evidence from the text to support the claim. The student showed me: That he understands the genre of fantasy. That he can apply his knowledge of genre to a text. What he applies regarding grammar and word knowledge. That he can reference an anchor chart ("...include elements that are impossible"). That he can cite evidence from a text. Now, we're ready to apply this skill at a deeper level! Oh-ho! Check out this anchor chart from Jennifer Hartley's 5th-Grade class:
