Resources for 6/17 Workshop

Thank you to all who attended the workshop on 6/17. What a great group! It was a pleasure to work with you and hear all of your great ideas.

Here are links to some of the activities that we used. Although you may need to register for TeachersPayTeachers or Slideshare, my materials are all free.

If any of you have related materials, I invite you to share! Simply post the items to Slideshare and share the link through the "Comments" section.

-Cause and Effect Card Match activity
-Text Structure Card Match activity
-Character Emotions skits (This is a larger file that contains a number of resources related to characters and inferences)
-Text Structure Readers Theatre scripts

I have a number of other activities that I plan to format and post throughout the summer--keep checking back for more links.

Enjoy your summer!

Our Favorite Read Alouds

Thanks to everyone who attended the workshops on June 24 and June 25! I appreciated all of your feedback and participation.

Here is the list of our favorite read alouds from June 24. If you know of someone who attended on June 24 but not June 25, send them the link to this page so that they can find our list.

• Junie B. Jones (Barbara Parks)
• Diary of A Spider (Doreen Cronin)
• The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane (Kate DiCamillo)
• The Tale of Despereaux (Kate DiCamillo)
• The Legend of the Bluebonnet (Tomie de Paola)
• Willy the Wimp (Anthony Browne)
• Wolf's Chicken Stew (Keiko Kasza)
• Very Last First Time (Jan Andrews)
• The Cajun Night Before Christmas
• Fly Away Home (Eve Bunting)
• The Three Questions (Jon Muth)
• Up North at the Cabin (Marsha Wilson Chall)
• Little House in the Big Woods (Laura Ingalls Wilder)
• Weslandia (Paul Fleischman)
• Mufaro's Beautiful Daughter (John Steptoe)
• The True Story of the Three Little Pigs (Jon Sciezka)
• Tuck Everlasting (Natalie Babbit)
• Almost Starring Skinnybones (Barbara Park)
• From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (E.L. Konigbserg)

Wow! What a list! There are many there that I'm looking forward to checking out. I can't way to find a copy of Up North at the Cabin or Willy the Wimp. Both sound like they will be engaging to my students in the fall.

Have some more to add? It's easy! Just click on "Comments" and add your idea.