- Riding
the Reading Roller Coaster:
- Read
for Fun and Address a
Standard
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- Look for cute, silly, funny, and even
hilarious books to promote reading. Then,
locate good quality informational websites
to use with the book. Identify a specific
standard and a specific activity that uses
the website in an interesting way.
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- Read Squids will be Squids,
How to Eat Fried Worms, or
Bunnicula
. Then, study fables, worms, or rabbits
online.
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 - Arthur
Dorros
- The Fungus that Ate My
School
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Tie a silly topic and a state standard.
For example, read The Fungus that Ate my
School, then explore the world of
fungi.
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- Read some silly fables in the book
Squids will be Squids. Or, use the
following websites for ideas. If you don't
teach fables, try mythology:
- Write an activity that relates to a
specific standard. Go to online standards
such as State
Level Standards Starting Points,
State
Standards Links, or Georgia
Department of Education. Some
benchmark ideas are shown below:
- Understands the defining
characteristics of literary forms
- Discuss origins and purposes of
fables
- Understands the basic story elements
- Identify the elements of a
fable
- Identify the moral, theme, or
lesson in a fable
- Summarizes and paraphrases information
in texts
- Retell a story
- Outlines information from text
- Uses information from text to support
opinions, predictions, and conclusions
- Write a fable containing a
moral
- Write informative texts
- Write a list of rules for life
- Locate and read literature from
web-based sources
- Develop communications using
technology
- Write using a word processing
tool
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