[LIT] Halloween in school

[Bill IVEY]

"A list for improving literacy with focus on middle grades."
<lit at literacyworkshop.org> on Monday, October 30, 2006 at 12:58 PM -0500
wrote:
>I am planning to use some graphic organizers to do some compare and
>contrast writing by tasting and observing different candy and
>cookies---I'm hoping that food will be a good motivator for compare and
>contrast vocab.  I also plan to let the student listen to the Tell Tale
>Heart and add phrases and words to their writer's notebooks that keep
>the reader's heart pounding!

Hi!

Thank you SOOOO much! My Humanities 7 class just voted late this morning
that their next genre will be compare and contrast, so you just gave me
the perfect Halloween day activity for this new unit. Yay!!!!

:-)

Take care,
Bill Ivey
Stoneleigh-Burnham School