Wild Robot Global Read Aloud Connect With Schools

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What is the Global Read Aloud?

"The premise is unproblematic; nosotros option a volume to read aloud to our students during a set six-week period and during that fourth dimension nosotros endeavor to make as many global connections as possible. Each teacher decides how much fourth dimension they would similar to dedicate and how involved they would similar to be. Some people cull to connect with just one class, while others go for as many every bit possible. The scope and depth of the project is up to you. While there are official tools you tin can use such every bit Skype, Twitter, WriteAbout or Edmodo, y'all cull the tools that will make the most sense for you. Teachers get a community of other educators to exercise a global projection with, hopefully inspiring them to go on these connections through the year." Source: Pernille Ripp, Global Read Aloud

I chose a Google Site for the packaging of this Hyperdoc as a way to connect with other classes around the earth and share our learning as nosotros read "The Wild Robot". Students will respond to the tasks presented in these lessons through Flipgrid or Padlet. I'm partial to these formats because they eliminate the restrictions that fourth dimension zones and bell schedules limit our connections to.

Last yr nosotros shared our thinking with students beyond five different continents through the Padlets embedded in the "Pax" hyperdoc. I look forward to connecting with fifty-fifty more students and teachers this yr.

Use the official hashtags: #GRA17 and #GRAWild on Twitter and Join the Facebook Group

Please leave a pin on the map so we can all meet the connections that we take made through the Global Read Aloud:

Global Read Aloud Connections

The difference between a Hyperdoc created in Google Docs or Slides vs. a Google Site

You can't #filemakeacopy of a Google site. I've designed this unit so that #filemakeacopy isn't necessary. Students will go documents and information from the site, but will not respond in slides and then having a re-create of the slides is not necessary. Students volition respond through Flipgrid or Padlet (their choice). Responding in these shared spaces, rather than a single slide deck will allow us to connect with more students. Both the Padlet and Flipgrid responses are set upwardly so that students can annotate on other students posts. These spaces are both chastened as well, so I will filter content that does not see the standards of scholarly online behavior and practiced digital citizenship. If you are planning to use these lessons and would like to help with monitoring and approving Padlet responses, please allow me know, and I volition add you as an admin to the padlets. You can connect with me through "The Teacher's Lounge" Flipgrid, by sending me straight message on Twitter, or through email.

Since students have access to this page, but nosotros may want to keep "The Teacher's Lounge" private, please contact me through electronic mail or Twitter to go the link to this grid. My thinking was that information technology would be a good way to connect with other teachers that are using these lessons, share how things are going, enquire questions, answer each others questions, make suggestions for modifications, etc.

Nosotros hope you savor our HyperDoc! Apply as you wish, but please give credit when credit is due. Credits #BetterTogether #TsGiveTs

The best matter about creating HyperDocs is the sharing! If y'all finish your own novel HyperDoc, share it with the world by tweeting it out using #HyperDocs and tagging @TsGiveTs. So upload information technology to TeachersGiveTeachers.internet and then that others can find and use your physician. Exist sure to include a footer or slide noting that you lot created information technology and if you remixed someone else'south work, please add "inspired by" to be sure they go credit also.

To see more examples of novel hyperdocs and to get a slide book explaining how to create your own novel hyperdoc, visit the Credits & Additional Resources Folio.

The Following links are to Google Drive folders or Slide decks that announced on this site. If y'all should need to make a copy of something or modify an assignment for your class, please feel free to admission these links, brand a copy, and edit for employ in your classroom.

I created these "booksnap" slides with the intent that they would exist shown on the projector as we mind to the story. I felt that the visual annotations of my thinking would requite students something to look at and be thinking about during the read aloud, since they won't have a book in forepart of them to look at. When we get to a folio that I have "snapped" we will pause and discuss the text and questions on the slide before continuing with the read aloud. Since I added my booksnaps to a slide deck I was also able to include some mini videos with reminders virtually the reading strategies I was referencing in my snaps. There is a slide deck for students to create their own booksnaps also; it tin exist found on the book projects page of this site.

For the class vocabulary slide deck, you will need to assign this Google Slides presentation through Google classroom and choose students can edit OR add together your students to the slide deck (that you brand a re-create of) by e-mail (as collaborators) if you don't have Google classroom.

I would not recommend sharing a link to your slide deck as "anyone can edit" with your classroom.

An Overview of the Assignments - labeled by (week.strand):

.1 Assignments are the read aloud and word of the text using the Reading Guide Slides for each week. I created these "booksnap" slides with the intent that they would be shown on the projector every bit we listen to the story. I felt that the visual annotations of my thinking would give students something to look at and be thinking about, since they won't have a book in front of them to look at. When nosotros become to a page that I accept "snapped" we will pause and hash out the text and questions on the slide earlier continuing with the read aloud. There is a slide deck for students to create their own booksnaps equally well; information technology can be plant on the book projects page of this site.

• BookSnaps are a manner to make students' learning visible, using a photo of the selection, text annotations and emojis to interact with what they are reading. BookSnaps were created by Tara Martin and you tin acquire more than here through her video tutorials. Booksnaps tin can be done using Google Describe, Slides, Seesaw, and many other apps, including of course SnapChat if your students have access.
• Socratic Seminars: On the landing folio for each week of this unit y'all volition find an overview for the lessons included in that weeks learning, the reading guide for the calendar week, every bit well as a "Big Pic Question". My class will be using these big questions as a topic for a Socratic Seminar.
  • Socratic Seminars: Edifice a Culture of Student-Led Discussion, Edutopia
  • Socratic Seminars: Guidelines, Grant Wiggins
  • Socratic Seminar, Facing History

.2 Assignments (Web log & Vlog) are journal assignments related to connecting with the text. Throughout the book, the main character Roz feels unlike emotions. This is an important theme in the story-the question of whether or not robots can experience emotions. The journal prompts focus on the emotions mentioned in the text that calendar week and inquire students to connect to their ain experiences through writing or video response.

• Consider the prompt, then explore whatever related articles, images, and videos .
• Respond to the prompt using the tool of your option.
  • You can Vlog (video+blog=Vlog) and apply Flipgrid to share and connect.
  • You can blog in written form, record a podcast, or choose another mode to share your thinking and add together a link to the Padlet to share and connect.
  • The tool isn't important, it's the sharing that matters!

.3 Assignments are related to the common core standards for ELA inside the Craft and Construction strand

• The standards addressed in each week's lessons can exist found on the landing page for each week.

.4 Assignments are extensions. We may or may not do these in English grade. These assignments highlight connections to science, animal behavior, adaptations, etc. and the math/science core teachers are partnering with the ELA/History core teachers in my class level for Global Read Aloud lessons.

Notice and Notation Reading Strategies:

The focus of our work will exist to think nearly and discuss the text "The Wild Robot" by Peter Brown. The teaching strategies described in the books "Detect and Note: Strategies for Close Reading" by Kylene Beers and Robert Probst and "Mosaic of Thought" by Ellin Oliver Keene and Susan Zimmerman have influenced the style that I teach comprehension, and elements of these philosophies will exist noticeable throughout the reading guide. You lot may want to consider ordering 1 or both of these books if yous don't accept them already.

My intent for the reading guide is to use the slides as prompts for discussion and assay of the text; like visual mini-lessons on reading strategies. I have noticed that my students struggle with the comprehension of text when it is presented in an audio format alone. I am hoping that their understanding of this yr's book for the Global Read Aloud will improve by adding visuals of my thinking about the text and increasing the corporeality of pupil discussion throughout the book. These slides include an annotated passage with my avatar acting as a "Guide on the Slide" explaining the reading strategy. In that location are questions to hash out and sometimes a curt sound or video component to explain a strategy, connexion, or literary device in a little more detail.

This is the reading guide with BookSnaps for the unabridged book-SPOILERS Here. If you don't want the ending to be ruined, don't await. I accept cleaved this principal Slide deck up into weekly slides and those tin be institute under each calendar week'southward heading in the drop down carte at the top of the page.

Wild Robot Reading Guide

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