My mom recommended this book, Gone by Michael Grant and I was looking for an e-book version when I found this! For a limited time, you can read the entire book for free by clicking below! I won't say no to a free book, I'm just hoping this is the first in the series. I have absolutely no idea what this book will be about except that ALL adults disappear and the kids are left on their own. Happy reading!
I decided that before I can start posting about what I'm doing this year, I needed to share some of my favorite strategies from last year that went really well with the students. I was completely inspired by Kelly Gallagher after reading devouring all of his books at the beginning of the school year! I had the opportunity to go to a Kelly Gallagher workshop at Judson this spring, and it was absolutely amazing! He was so nice when I went up to him (I was terrified and starstruck), and even wrote "You're Welcome" on this piece of paper, because my students actually asked me to THANK HIM for changing the way we read novels in class. Students + asked me + to say thank you to an author + about school stuff = UTOPIA! Here are some of my abbreviated notes from the day: His TOP Points: Kids should write 4X more than you can physically grade Students suffer from word poverty. Must get students reading more in order to be exposed to vocabulary. We ne
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