Book Bytes

Guess what, kids? We’ve got a bit of a game-changer on our hands this week!
I’d like to take this opportunity to welcome Mrs. Martin’s 7th Grade Reading Class at Jessie Clark Middle School in Lexington, KY to the party! They will be joining us for the duration of the project and will be reading from [...]

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Howdy, folks!
I hope that you kids have been enjoying your reading so far! There are some really excellent choices on your list and I hope that you’ve been able to get your hands on some books that have kept your attention! Oh, and I REALLY hope that you used part of the 3-day weekend to [...]

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Hi, gang! We’re all back from summer break and I have a special surprise.
I found the link to the video below in my Inbox on this morning and I was so psyched about it that I thought I’d make it the subject of my first post of the 09-10 school year!

I understand that you [...]

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OK, gang. This is going to be another “all-skate” kind of post. You know what I mean, right? Like at the skating rink when everybody gets out and gets moving, both 6th and 8th graders are going to respond on THIS post of mine.
And by the way, GOOD JOB on making sure that you weren’t [...]

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We meet again, 6th Grade!
If you’ve been pacing yourselves, then you should at least have started your second book for this project over the weekend. As a result, we’re going to do a similar assignment this week to the one that kicked off the project. I’m curious as to where you are in the current process [...]

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Hello again!
If you’ve been pacing yourselves, then you should at least have started your second book for this project over the weekend. As a result, we’re going to do a similar assignment this week to the one that kicked off the project. I’m curious as to where you are in the current process and always enjoy [...]

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I’m going to keep this post trimmed down a bit. If you’d like to see some of my other comments, suggestions and general frou-frou, visit the 8th grade post which contains the same assignment…
This week’s topic involves setting. Do you remember what the two components of setting in a literary or dramatic work happen to be? Well, [...]

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