Goals

The activities on this site are designed to meet a wide variety of goals for students.

Language Arts

• Motiviating students to enjoy reading through engaging and exciting literature activities.
• Improving reading and reading comprehension skills through practice.
• Developing the concepts of basic story structure elements through the use of story web and plot diagrams.
• Creating text to text connections through comparisons of different books about the main character, as well as student writings.
• Creating text to self connections through discussion and journaling.
• Responding to literature in a wide variety of ways.
• Improving writing skills in both mechanics and the writing process though practice.
• Writing to communicate through journaling and Blogging.
• Writing directions through the use of a powerpoint starter.
• Writing to inform about a choice animal.
• Creative Writing through use of online interactive story maps to create new stories.
• Persuasive Writing through Book Talks.
• Motivating students to enjoy writing through engaging and exciting writing activities.
• Information
• Inquiry and Information skills through through researching, webbing, and writing about an animal of choice.

Technology

• Use of online interactive software through the Story Elements Interactive and the Read Write Think sites.
• Use of a digital Camera.
• Posting and Commenting on a class Blog.
• Creating Powerpoint Presentations throught the use of a Starter.

Crititcal Thinking

• Students build crititcal thinking skills throughout all of these activities.