My wiki is designed for extra discussions with our class book club. Students take books home after doing guided reading with me. After students have had a chance to read their book, we have a class book club. The book club meets every other Friday and the groups are put together based on interests, ability, skill, etc. During the book club students eat popcorn and discuss their books in detail. I give parents a list of questions at the beginning of book club, so that students are understanding what they are reading at home and taking responsibility for their reading. I thought creating a wiki would be a great way to be more interactive with parents as they help with book club. Now students can write a sentence or two about what they learned from the book at home.
This is the Wiki that students will use to guide their learning during bookclub. https://bookclubgilliland.wikispaces.com/ (Request an Invite if needed)
I love the idea Sara. This will get students motivated to read and get the students introduced to new book titles.
ReplyDeleteThis is such a great idea! I have got to start adding my projects to my blog.
ReplyDeleteThank you Fay and Jessica. I am trying to keep up with all we have done, so I can come back to it during the year.
ReplyDeleteSara, a wiki could be a great way to do this. Another possibility could be a class blog which would allow for students to add individual entries to their own blog page and parents could comment. Kidblog.org is an excellent free and simple blog service for classrooms. It offers a great deal of control for the teacher to moderate student publishing and comments from students, parents or the public. It has limited themes, but is very easy to use and set up without student emails. You may want to check it out.
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