Do you know that in 1953 Secret of the Andes won the Newbery Medal? The reason that I bring it up is we just started to read the book it beat out Charlotte's Web. I love Charlotte's Web. It is a classic. I constantly try to read the new books from the new authors. I think it is important to know modern books but I think it is just as important to know and read the classics. This book is a classic.
We are going to read this book as a class. A whole class novel. This is something new for me. I think there is value to reading a book together as a class. First it helps build a community in our room. We will all share the experience of reading this book together. I also now that in upper grades the whole class novel is often the main way of teaching. Our students need to be prepared for that experience so we might as well start.
The main reason that Ms. Cavallaro and I wanted to read this book together is to introduce some ideas that we found in the book Notice and Note.
The rest of the week we are going to introduce two signposts that students can find while they read a book. I will try and explain these signposts on the blog the rest of this week.
I hope you had a great start to your week.
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