After viewing the following videos, please tell me how you feel about the new literacies. Do you think we place enough emphasis on them or too much? Do you feel you have the skills and support required to teach 21st century learners? Thinking about what you. Control, how do you think you could integrate more technology into your instruction? Teaching 21st Century Learners.

I had heard about this site, but had never put in a request. Listening to the first chapter of. As a Newbery winner, but have questioned other titles in the past. I appreciated that Gaiman stated, I was, and still am, on the side of books you love. Mo Willems illustrates the beauty of friendship and storytelling in.

In trying to be a fluent reader I talk to my students about read-aloud time being a time that is sacred. I do not want to discipline them or reprimand them. I want our read-alouds to be joyful. For the most part this really works. This is a cute link that shows the characters in the story.

I love reading to my children and to my students. I love watching my students sitting on the edge of their seat in anticipation of the story. I love when I look around the room and see my students so engrossed in the read-aloud they are unable to follow the text.

After finishing the articles, I wanted to listen to Neil Gaiman read The Graveyard Book. Finally, I was quite moved by the acceptance speech Neil Gaiman wrote for his Newberry Award. I thought that it was heart-felt and honest.