Reading

Reenact a favorite book
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Book Projects - Comprehension
http://blogs.scholastic.com/top_teaching/2011/01/reading-book-projects-with-flip-video-digital-cameras-and-more.html

Students record recitations
post to wiki/eportfolio for self- and peer-review http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcZt5C4tsaw

Create a Visual Representation of a Poem
Celebrate [|National Poetry Day] by capturing a visual representation of a specific poem. Step-by-Step:http://chs.smuhsd.org/bigue/art_of_video/index/vid_poem.html List of Poems: http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/p180-list.html http://www.wyckoffschools.org/eisenhower/teachers/olejarz/digitalvideo/2001/dragone.html

Record Students Reading
Our teachers record a student reading for so they can can go back and create running records of how student reading progress.

Record a Readers' Theater
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Illustrate Writing Devices
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Create a Video Thesaurus
Use all those "worn out" words and give examples of other words that could take their place.

Video in Writing Class
Have a writer showcase of the week...each week a student can write and record themselves reading their stories to be showcased on the school/teacher's website.