English Workshop Toolkit Summer Camp 2014 Today we had our first day of camp. Figuring out technology for camp. What is camp? It's a combination of curriculum development, planning, collaboration, and lots of fun! Each day starts off with getting to know you activity and it's followed by beautiful words. We listened to "Shake the Dust" by Anis Mojgani and used that as inspiration to write. I tweeted about it and LOOK: He favorited my tweet! Yipppeee! We will write and read, just like our students, to help us find the most effective tools to add to our toolkit! Each of the four days has a focus and today's focus was Interactive Read Aloud. Colleen Milligan and Bea Neukirk shared their experience and expertise in utilizing read aloud instructionally. They modeled with short story, picture book, and excerpt from a longer text. Once the teachers observed them, they were off creating their own plans to incorporate interactive rea...
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