By the way, the Teacher Librarian link in the below email is a terrific
resource! There are two great feature articles (Best Resources of 2004 and
Best, Notable, and Recommended Books) that you are able to view without
subscribing. I copied the lists into a Word file and will certainly use
them in the future.
Adrienne Goldstein
Friendship School
Eldersburg, MD
arachgold@comcast.net
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From: "Barbara Braxton" <barbara@IIMETRO.COM.AU>
To: <LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>
Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 5:22 PM
Subject: Re: TARGET: Series suggestion
> Thank you for your suggestions. Because so many of you have indicated
> that Deltora Quest is
> available in the US, I will refer to this in the article. Then, because
> of the number if requests,
> I will write up what I actually did for the "Deltora Quest Quest" in my
> column for Teacher
> Librarian, so you can use it as a model or as itself.
> http://www.teacherlibrarian.com/ It will be
> either April 06 or Jun 06.
>
> In the meantime, suggestions for series that might lend themselves to a
> series of activities which
> requires the students to read and re-read to really engage with the text;
> that the problem to solve
> demands higher-order thinking and needs more than one session to complete
> were
> The Dark is Rising - Susan Cooper
> A Series of Unfortunate Events - Lemony Snicket
> The Seventh Tower - Garth Nix
> Guardians of Ga'hoole - Katherine Lasky
> Spiderwick Chronicles
> Shreadderman
>
> Barbara
>
> Barbara Braxton
> Teacher Librarian
> Palmerston District Primary School
> PALMERSTON ACT 2913
> AUSTRALIA
>
> T. 61 2 6205 6162
> F. 61 2 6205 7242
> E. barbara@iimetro.com.au
> W. http://www.palmdps.act.edu.au
> "Together we learn from each other."
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