10YO: Books, Books, and More Books!
Students in the 10YO class have an amazing Literacy/reading program. Here are some highlights of our program.
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Book Clubs: Students choose one of four books to read with an accompanying teacher and discuss topics of characters, themes, plot, and connections. We recently completed our first session with the theme "Empathy". Our current theme is "Family" with the books Rain, Reign, Clayton Byrd Goes Underground, A Year Down Yonder, and The Boy on the Porch.
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Independent Reading: Each of our classrooms is equipped with an incredible library of 200 age-appropriate fiction and non-fiction books. Students are building their own personal "towers" to visually show the reading they have been doing. We are also having a friendly competition between classes to see which class is ahead of the other!
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Read Aloud: Twice a week, Mr. Breen or Ms. Dickinson engages students' listening skills by reading a book out loud to the whole class. Currently, they are listening to City of Ember, a suspenseful dystopian novel about a city living underground for hundreds of years!