Another option is to have students look through the pages of
their independent reading books and search for comparative and superlative adjectives.
Fast forward to today, and students are now responding to
their independent reading books by creating an OurPlace web site (based on the idea of MySpace) for their main characters, or by creating an i - Movie.
David Baraza and Sharae Green brought their 7th - grade English Language Arts classes to the library regularly for Book Talks and to select
independent reading books.
Follow - up: Students will look for idioms in
their independent reading books and share them with the class the following day.
For example, reward students with a new book sticker every time they complete
an independent reading book.
She has video recorded Merrill's students choosing
their independent reading books, and Merrill is now seeing the video for the first time along with her colleagues at their November inquiry session.