jan21gr2

Discussion Notes:
- trading their books - what they liked or disliked - rearrange the groups and discuss the books with others - who could get "their" book read the most by others
 * Book (short picture books) - shadow play - back lighting, narrator, children acting out / using overhead and popsicle sticks
 * short story - script - plays and skits
 * Act out a key sequence from a book
 * Book talk - oral or visual - opinions are needed
 * Making posters, dioramas, cake making
 * Book in a bag - pick three objects, place in bag and then pick the objects and discuss (relation to the story)
 * Book and Bagel
 * Coffee Shop
 * Spin the Book - group of 4 - cycle through a book
 * Book Board - recommend (or not)
 * Filling up a display by a certain time, class, teams
 * Book - Log - BLOG
 * readwritethink.org activities
 * Preview books - read a bit and put it back
 * Anthropologists - tribes, tours, link - activities - authour talk
 * Book vs Movie
 * Creating music and videos
 * Acting out a sequence and videotape it
 * Powerpoint
 * A blue's song - relating to the book
 * Compose a poem
 * Radio Program - skits eg: podcasts - sound effects
 * Create a picture book and read it to younger students
 * Books - board games - chess with Narnia characters
 * Creating a poster with symbols and visualizations - a sequence not a collage (NO WORDS)
 * Re-enactment of hsitory or science concepts
 * Science fair
 * create murals
 * Using text to decribe their own definition
 * make a newspaper,, a menu, skits
 * make a game box - the characters, scenes from book
 * Newscast (or wiki) - non fiction - Holocaust, circulatory system

//Resources to Support Further Inquiry Into This Question//

 * **Just Plain Reading** - IRA - http://www.reading.org/publications/journals/rrq/v36/i4/abstracts/RRQ-36-4-Ivey.html You will need to locate the full artical in the actual magazine.
 * **Reading Motivation** - http://everything2.com/?node_id=1024290