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Seven (finally)
 The publication date for Seven (the series) approaches. Seems like we have been talking about these books for like, seven years! The series has been accumulating some great press - check out this Publishers Weekly article here.
You can also see the book trailer here, and download excerpts from each of the books.
Watch for a classroom resource guide in the coming weeks full of discussion questions, pre- and post-reading ideas and instructions for running readers theater with the books. These seven novels from different authors with varied writing styles make for a great classroom reading experience.
They're also available together as the Seven (the series) bundle; all seven books at a reduced price in a display tray. |
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A new year of Text2Reader...
The newest issue of Text2Reader is now online.
The September issue of Text2Reader gets students thinking. They'll explore issues surrounding gambling addiction after reading On The Turn, a graphic novel produced by the Healthy Aboriginal Network. With a fiction passage from Catherine Austen's award-winning All Good Children, students will weigh the advantages of a futuristic society that limits personal freedoms - but provides guaranteed security. Non-fiction selections will get them talking about environmental disasters caused by human reliance on the chemicals of a post-industrial age. And in this month's Digital Nation, students get to the bottom of how that nebulous "cloud" really works. If that's not enough, September's T2R also shows students how to power up their writing by ramping up the tension, teaches them how to ask good questions, and takes them through the steps to writing a killer script.
Text2Reader is a Language Arts program for grades 6 to 8. Using selections from bestselling books, Text2Reader is developed by teachers and is correlated to the English Language Arts curriculum. LearnNowBC, BC's distributed learning platform now hosts Text2Reader and makes the program available to BC schools at a substantial discount. Details here. Sign up for a free seven-day trial issue here. |
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O-Sound (the Wordle)
 You know we like a good Wordle. Have you used Wordle before? As a tool for the classroom this is pretty cool. Build word clouds from any piece of text. Works for Soundings too!
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