CHECKLIST FOR SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13

CHECKLIST FOR 

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2012 

Remember this is a face-to-face meeting day. See you next week!

Topic: Defining Troubled Readers 

• READ: Trouble Reader Book Chapters 1-3 (everyone) and one additional chapter. 
• Please indicate sign-up for the  additional chapter you will be reading on the google document below. 
• Click Here to sign-up for additional chapter
• Please take notes on this chapter as you will be teaching others about the chapter you read.  
• Please post a visual metaphor and explanation onto our NEW whole group D2L reading discussion area (located in D2L-Discussion- whole group reading discussion) in response to Kyleen Beers, 'When Kids Can't Read' chapter 4 
• Please post a response to the question/prompts provided below onto your D2L small group discussion group area 
• Please review directions below: 
• Directions:
  
  
  1) In the NEW D2L whole group reading discussion area please post a visual metaphor for the whole class to see. 
  2)  Take a few minutes to describe why you feel the visual metaphor you have chosen connects with Beers' chapter 4. 
  
  
  3) Consider the following prompt in relation to Chapter 4: 
          What are the central ideas discussed in the chapter?  
          What issues or ideas does Kyleen Beers explore in the chapter? 
           Do the issues affect you as a teacher?  How so---directly, on a daily basis, or more generally. 
  4) Answer the following prompt ( as well as discuss something you think is important in relation to this chapter) in a written response that you will post onto D2L in your online discussion group area 
  5) Your response to the above question/prompt should be a two to three page response (about 500-750 words) 
  6) This response should be posted before class on Saturday, October 13. 
  
  

  Important this is a two part response: 1) post a visual metaphor in our NEW D2L whole group reading discussion area for ALL to see.  Please provide a short write up explaining how your visual metaphor connects to the reading.  2) Please post a written response onto the D2L- small group online discussion area answering the question posed above.  

  Therefore, you are posting in two different areas on D2L