Dr. S.'s Literacy Read Aloud & Literacy Podcast

A Deep Dive Into What Integration Really Is

Mon, 07 Mar 2022 22:17:56 -0400

When I first began school, the timetable was artificially divided up into segments of time oriented around specific subject areas. By the time I was finished teaching pre-service students, we were no longer talking about subject areas but integration across them. Literacy is the key way to begin to think about integration because we always begin with one of the language modalities when we are teaching and then branch out from there. So we can use reading as a spring board to think about how WHAT we are reading relates to WHERE it fits Into the greater body of knowledge. Our minds do not think about channels but rather pictures that tie things together and make sense of the world. Integration is how that process works. We integrate the new into what is already there.

Curiosity, Conceptual Development & Literacy Enhancement

Sun, 27 Feb 2022 22:08:32 -0400

Literacy enhancement beyond the skills involved in reading comprehension begins with basic curiosity about the world. As we explore the world around us, we create concepts in our minds about the objects in our environment and the people and places we visit and meet. Through experiences we move from concrete ideas about those things to the ability to think abstractly about them. Once we can think abstractly, we can read about those same things and add or change or evolve our concepts and apply them in different environments. Only through reading can we continue to evolve our understanding of the world around us and apply what we learn to new and different situations.

Personal Reflections on Joanne Levy’s Fish Out of Water

Sun, 20 Feb 2022 16:14:52 -0400

To help our students develop a real love of reading and to enhance literacy skill growth, we need to lead them to books in which they will find something of themselves either in the characters or the situations or their passions and interests. My generation was not lucky that way to go into a library and find books that we could identify with on a very personal level. That might be one reason why few ever went beyond high school. But today, there are books like the one I speak about in this podcast that present characters and situations that a reader like myself could have identified with way back when. I explore why in this podcast.

Enhancing Literacy Means Aiming For Deep Learning

Sat, 12 Feb 2022 17:46:39 -0400

Last week, I posted about the banning of books and how I reacted to what happened in the Deep South recently. Since then, an old friend approached me about my thoughts on different approaches to dealing with book banning and what I thought might be done to combat it. I decided, in thinking about it, that we needed to work hard to educate teacher and parents about how reading aloud and reading programs through the years in school had to be focussed on making reading creating change in how students see and understand the world. Only by cultivating deep learning which I explore in this podcast, will children become adults who do not see reading as threatening but as a way to understand better what the world is all about and how to understand and respond to the diversity of humanity in the world.

Other Words For Home by Jasmine Warga

Thu, 03 Feb 2022 20:36:24 -0400

In order to effectively reach an increasingly diverse student population, teachers need to understand where their students have come from and what their lives must have been like at an earlier time. We are no longer on the same wave length as our students. Teachers need to read books like this to try and be able to see the world through the eyes of their students so that they can reach them and help them learn. Teachers cannot advocate and preach about reading unless they read themselves and this gives them a place to begin their reading.

Banning Books And : Or Not Repairing the World

Fri, 28 Jan 2022 18:26:59 -0400

The banning of books in elementary schools comes from stakeholders who prefer not to enable their students to learn about the world for sure. But more importantly, it prevents from students acquiring and building on what we would refer to as empathy - an ability to see the world of others through our own eyes and therefore respond to others from a place of understanding, not hate or rejection or intolerance. Not every student wants to usually read books that have been pulled from shelves but those who do are prevented from understanding something which they want to understand and when they do not understand, they cannot in any way help to repair the world of its ills and intolerance.

In the Wild Light By Jeffrey Zentner.

Sun, 23 Jan 2022 15:27:24 -0400

In this podcast, I explain how I got turned on to the reading of Children's and Young People's Fiction, why I continue with selections from this field even today and how I come to learn about new books to seek out even though I am not in the classroom any more. I use the book In the Wild Light by Jeffrey Zentner to explore how we can help young people delve into issues like faith, friendship, loss, addiction and planning for the future while enhancing a love of reading for its own sake. Jeffrey Zentner is a good choice for this because he was a musician first and played backup for some major stars before he turned to writing books for young people. That's the kind of author a lot of young people can identify with.

Integrating Literature Across the Curriculum

Thu, 13 Jan 2022 21:53:36 -0400

Today's and tomorrow's classrooms will be increasingly organized around BIG IDEAS which enable students to look at the issues in their world from a variety of different perspectives. The BIG IDEAS become the springboards for new deep learning around interests that the students themselves are captivated by rather than knowledge, skills and affect chosen by some curriculum written by professionals far removed from any classroom. Often times, great literature for children can be the springboard to exploration by students of the world around them in a meaningful way. In this podcast I explore this idea and give some examples of just how this might happen.

Those Who Read Succeed! Easier Said Than Done!

Sun, 09 Jan 2022 19:21:40 -0400

I used to have a poster hanging in my classroom that said THOSE WHO READ, SUCCEED! I used that challenge to my students for the second half of my career, all the way into teaching young people how to teach and what it meant to encourage literacy in the classroom. But there are things we have to do to set the individual student on the path to a love of learning and the WE begins with not just the school environment but the home environment as well. Each of us must do our parts to take our students on an individual journey into the world of books and help them find themselves in the page of what they read often enough that they become hooked for life.

Using Cynthia Voigt‘s Homecoming in a Classroom or at Home

Wed, 27 Oct 2021 18:50:06 -0300

Homecoming is the first book in a seven-book series of books written by Cynthia Voigt about the Tillerman family. The four Tillerman children are deserted by their mother in a car in a parking lot and the book deals with how the four children survive until they find a new home with their grandmother. This is an important series of books because it deals with issues that are so terribly important today. Homelessness, family dysfunction, mental illness, all are things we need to bring to the attention of our students if we want them to develop emotional intelligence and help us to try and deal with one of the central problems affecting society today.

Katherine Paterson‘s Book Bridge to Terabithia - Some Thoughts and Some Project Ideas

Mon, 18 Oct 2021 21:22:44 -0300

This podcast follows up on my reading of Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson. I say a bit about the author, outline the main idea and supporting events of the story and then give the teacher or the parent ideas for following up with students or children on their reading of or hearing the story. I try to indicate in sufficient detail just what can be done with this book to extend and deepen learning. This is the essence of literacy development.

Bridge to Terabithia - Chapter 13 - Building the Bridge

Mon, 18 Oct 2021 18:30:17 -0300

In this, the last chapter, Jess wakes up to a bright sunny day and goes to Terabithia to lay flowers out for Leslie, which was his way of saying goodbye. He had to cross further away from the usual crossing and there was a stump of a tree that he was able to use. He was no sooner done than he heard May Belle calling for help. She wanted to join him but was stuck on the wooden tree. Jess helped her find the courage as he had been helped to find the courage by Leslie. On Monday, he was surprised by the response of his teacher who he had mocked who tried to comfort him and talked about when her husband had died and the fear that he would not be remembered. His last shock was coming home and finding Leslie's parents readying to leave in a U-Haul. They were taking P. T. and apologized for that. Bill Burke's did encourage Jess to use any of the wood out the back that he wanted. That is what Jess did. He took the wood and built a bridge to Terabithia and said he wanted May Belle to feel safe crossing and maybe even Joyce Ann.

Bridge to Terabithia - Chapter 12 - Stranded

Mon, 18 Oct 2021 17:27:50 -0300

Jesse goes down the lane with his parents to the old Perkins place. He is met at the door by P. T. and by Leslie's grandparents. Who know who he is because of the dog's response and then Bill, Leslie's father, comes and hugs Jesse. He tells Jesse that Leslie was cremated and they are taking her ashes to Pennsylvania for spreading the next day. Jess is angered by this because no one came to him and told him what was happening. He felt it was as if he was nothing to Leslie. He ran out of the house, home, where he smacked May Belle and ran to his room. His father came home and took him into his arms and comforted him and convinced Jess that Leslie was going to heaven, not to worry. This comforted Jess and, when there next day, Mr. Aarons asked if he could look after the dog, his mother never said a word and so P. T. slept with Jess all night.

Bridge to Terabithia - Chapter 11 - NO!

Sun, 17 Oct 2021 17:32:42 -0300

Jess is dumbstruck at this news and pushes the reality out of his mind. He runs into his room and then after a bit, jumps up and comes back, having remembered that he forgot to milk the cow. He tells his mother and his siblings but his mother tells him that his father was doing the milking for him. His mother insists he sit down and eat pancakes and he does and seemingly enjoys the food. His older sisters are mocking him and annoyed that he seems to be ignoring the sad event that they are all struggling to deal with. They yell at him and he runs out and runs down the lane. His father comes along in the truck and cuts him off and picks him up and carries him home and then says he and his mother are going to go visit Leslie's parents, but they are not sure where they might be with the body.

Bridge to Terabithia - Chapter 10 - A Perfect Day

Sun, 17 Oct 2021 17:03:51 -0300

At the beginning of the chapter, we hear how Jess thought he might solve the problem of his growing fear of swinging over the creek to get to Terabithia. He knew that Les was not afraid, and he couldn't figure out how to just come out and say he WAS afraid. While he worried about what to do, he received a call from his teacher, Miss Edmunds, who was calling to invite Jess to go with her to Washington, D. C. to visit the National Art Gallery and the Smithsonian. He knew he had to ask permission so he SORT OF woke his mom to ask permission and then told Mae Belle where he was going. He had a wonderful day with his teacher who even insisted on treating him for lunch. When they drove home, he ran down the lane and into the house only to find out that the whole family was worried sick about him because Leslie had drowned and they were sure he had too.

Bridge to Terabithia - Chapter 9 - The Evil Spell

Sat, 11 Sep 2021 15:49:58 -0300

Jess and Leslie spend every day of the week now going to Terabithia and pretending to be king and queen of their realm. They use a rope to swing across the creek which is becoming increasingly swollen due to constant rains that week. Each day, Jess becomes more fearful of the crossing and Leslie just taunts him by pretending to place a curse on the enchanted forest hideout. But Jess finally decides after four days of rain and dangerous banks of the creek that he will just tell Leslie he won't go. He is ashamed of his fear but he knows it is far too dangerous.

Bridge to Terabithia - Chapter 8 - Easter

Sat, 11 Sep 2021 15:28:57 -0300

Easter is coming and everyone is talking about what they will wear to church. Then, Mr. Aarons comes home and announces he has lost his job. Gone is the idea of new clothes. Leslie asks if she can come to church and Mrs. Aarons agrees to that. In the end, the womenfolk all get something new and. the family piles into the truck and go to church. After the service, Jess Leslie and May Belle are talking about the story and May Belle asks what happens if one of them dies?

Bridge to Terabithia - Chapter 7 - The Golden Room

Fri, 10 Sep 2021 17:23:25 -0300

Jess begins to be jealous of all the time that Leslie is spending helping her father renovate and fix up their house. Leslie tells him to just ask if he can help. So he does and Leslie's father becomes amazed at how much of a help Jess really is. One day at school, they hear Janice Avery crying in a stall in the washroom and Leslie finds out what the matter is and both of them realize that no one has it easy at home. May Belle admits she knows about Terabithia and Jess threatens to tell everyone that she wets her bed still if she ever tells their secret.

Bridge to Terabithia - Chapter 6 - The Coming of Prince Terrien

Fri, 10 Sep 2021 16:50:24 -0300

In this chapter, we come to see just how deep the relationship between Jess and Leslie is. We also learn a lot about the character of Jess and how good his nature is. Christmas is coming and he struggles to make decisions about what to give his sisters and how to save something for Leslie. On the bus ride home, one day, though he sees a sign offering free puppies and his problem is solved. Leslie loves her gift and names him Prince Terrien. He manages to please even his sisters Christmas morning.

Using a StoryBook to Encourage Thinking, Writing, Speaking, Creating

Fri, 03 Sep 2021 18:00:13 -0300

There is a skillset involved in taking a picture book which you read to a child or a group of children and encouraging them to then think, write, speak, or create. I used to read the Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf to my teachers - in - training and show them how to use the words, pictures and elements of the story to encourage reading and geography and social and emotional learning skills and that was always a big success with my students.

Bridge to Terabithia - Chapter 5 - The Giant Killers

Fri, 03 Sep 2021 17:47:23 -0300

In this chapter, Jess and Leslie have to deal with one of the bullies, Janice Avery, on the schoolyard who has been taking advantage of May Belle, Jess's sister. May Belle is very upset and asks Jess and Leslie to make Janice suffer a consequence for her bullying. Leslie comes up with a plan to fool Janice and embarrass her in front of the rest of the kids and Jess takes dictation and writes a note. The two collaborate on putting the note in Janice's desk and then relish in the suffering that they inflict as payback.

Bridge to Terrabithia - Chapter 4 - Rulers of Terrabithia

Wed, 01 Sep 2021 16:39:48 -0300

We learn in this chapter of the growing friendship between Jess and Leslie and their common struggles against the bullies in their classroom and the challenges they each face in their family life at home. Together, they seek refuge one day in a special place in the forest near both of them that they call Terabithia, which they see as a magical. The school year advances and we learn more about each of them and their insecurities but they seem to compliment each other. They came to see Terabithia as a secret they shared with no one.

Tae Keller‘s When You Trap A Tiger

Tue, 31 Aug 2021 18:01:38 -0300

Tae Keller is obviously of Korean background because everything about this book speaks to the richness of her upbringing. The book is a perfect way to introduce students to lessons on diversity and how different backgrounds enrich our understanding of the world. It also enables us to compare the experiences of the main character Lily who is confronted with the terminal illness of her halmoni, her grandmother, and those of others who might have lost a loved grandparent or other relative. So many ways in which this book enables rich and deep classroom or bedroom learning experiences.

Bridge to Terabithia - Chapter 3 - The Fastest Kid In the Fifth Grade

Tue, 31 Aug 2021 17:31:40 -0300

Jess begins the school year all dressed up and thinks only about the race to take place at recess. It is his big day. He is going to be the fastest. Except he doesn't bargain on having a competitor. Leslie shows up and after first being told she can't run, Jess agrees to let her run and she joins him in the fourth heat of the race. She wins and so Jess is out before he even could show off his growing skills. He made sure he ignored Leslie on the ride back home on the bus.

It's All About Stimulating Conversations

Mon, 30 Aug 2021 21:58:11 -0300

I am sure many of you remember the compulsory, obligatory book reports delivered orally in front of the class or to the teacher. That is not at all the same as sitting down with a child and asking the child questions about a book he or she is reading or has finished reading. When we read aloud to a single child, a group of children, or an entire class, stimulating questioning enables the listener(s) to deepen their understanding or what they have heard and talk about or process ideas at the same time.

Choosing Books That Allow Us to Help Our Students and Children Grow

Mon, 30 Aug 2021 21:52:22 -0300

There is a time and a place and a purpose for reading of materials chosen by the classroom teacher for all the students or some of the students. However, if we want our children or students to develop a love of reading, then we need to provide them with opportunities to choose books for themselves. Visiting a library with a well developed collection of books of all kinds and topics and then allowing students to browse and chose for themselves contributes to a growing independence and developing specific tastes.

Having Access to a Wide Variety of Reading Materials

Mon, 30 Aug 2021 21:39:44 -0300

There was a time when the only reading materials used in all grades from elementary through to secondary school was essentially fiction. Using non-fiction to practice reading skills was seldom thought to be important. Today we understand that both ought to play its part in the robust reading program. We also understand that not all children enjoy fiction and so they should be encouraged to indulge their passions for whatever topics that interest them. Reading is reading. This also has to imply books, magazines, newspapers, and even cartoons.

Bridge to Terabithia - Chapter 2 - Leslie Burke

Mon, 30 Aug 2021 21:03:41 -0300

In this chapter, we are helped to see the world through the eyes of Jesse, caught between two older and two younger sisters, and the only son in a farming family where the boy is depended upon to do all the chores, pretty much. Jess is not too happy about it, we read, but he hides it behind dreaming of being a famous artist and being in love with the music teacher. After milking the cow, Jess meets the girl from next door who immediately says that they have to be friends.

Enhancing Skills in the ClassroomBy Buddying Older and Younger Students or Any Combination

Sun, 29 Aug 2021 17:50:11 -0300

Many schools have reading buddies programs which pair older elementary grade students with early learners in the younger grades. Whether it is an older student working with a younger student, or two students of the same age, any time one has to read or perform for someone else there is a bit of a raising of the bar which can be very productive for students.

Racial Literacy and Its Place in Any Reading Program

Sun, 29 Aug 2021 17:38:32 -0300

It is hard not to know that the only way we are ever going to help everyone get along in a multi-racial, multi-ethnic world is to begin in the earliest grades by providing examples of books and movies and songs that address all those cultures. When it comes to books, there are so many excellent examples today of authors of all races telling stories about themselves but not necessarily just for people like them. Our students have to hear stories about all kinds of people and written by all manner of peoples.

Learning Strategies Meets Multiple Intelligences

Sun, 29 Aug 2021 17:32:11 -0300

In an earlier podcast, I addressed the theories advanced by Howard Gardner about multiple intelligences and how each of our students possesses a different combination of these intelligences. If we are going to help each student learn in ways that are best for him, then we have to help him or her find books that address those intelligences. A child that learns through music will be interested in books that tap into those intelligences and can be. used to help advance reading literacy goals. We need to learn how to individualize our programs so that each child has equal opportunity to learn in the ways that suits him or her best with tools that are adapted just for them.

Bridge to Terabithia - Chapter 1 - Jesse Oliver Owens, Jr.

Sun, 29 Aug 2021 16:48:29 -0300

In this first chapter of one of my favourite books, we are introduced to the Owens family. Jesse is the only son and he has two older sisters and two younger sisters and we find them arguing about chores and learn that Jesse wants to be the fastest runner at the school. At the end of the chapter, we learn that a new family has moved in to the property next year which we are told is pretty run down. Our curiosity is whetted.

Accuracy in the Writing Process

Mon, 02 Aug 2021 21:06:59 -0300

There has long been an ongoing debate about how to address writing accuracy in the classroom. For sure, we want to encourage fluency when writing which means that we don't stop and insist on perfect spelling and grammar and punctuation every time a student writes. There is this fine balance between fluency and understanding that different standards adhere for different audiences. Sometimes it is important to be accurate in every way and to labour over our writing and other times rules are meant to be broken,. The trick is to ensure students are learning that and working to address the difference in their writing.

The Importance of Hearing Good Language

Mon, 02 Aug 2021 21:00:28 -0300

In an earlier podcast, I addressed the necessity for a balanced reading program. One of the components of such a program has to be opportunities to hear and use good language. We write what we hear and if we don't hear good language at least some of the time, we won't recognize the error of using poor vocabulary or grammatical usage when we speak ourselves. That is one reason why hearing books read aloud is so important. It presents good models of usage for the student to copy.

The Link Between Educational Standards and Vaccination Hesitancy

Mon, 02 Aug 2021 20:53:59 -0300

Sadly, there is a huge discrepancy. among and between the U. S. states and their educational standards, money invested, and student literacy rates. There are too many states where mediocrity is reflected in the assessment results on standardized tests. This lack of accomplishment can be one very big reason for the acceptance of vaccination pleas by the medical profession and federal politicians. If you are poorly educated then you are more likely to be unable to tell the difference between fact and fiction and pick up.on bias in media presentations. Those who read succeed because they can and do.

Encouraging Literacy Development By Having A Balanced Reading Program

Sun, 01 Aug 2021 14:40:26 -0300

In order to develop literacy in our students, our programs have to be a balance between the act of reading in general and the development of the skills required to be able to read successfully. Just like athletes and musicians, readers need to have the skills in place when they pull them all together to read for pleasure. A balanced reading program aspires to find that balance between skills and affect.

Writing as a Literacy Skill

Sun, 01 Aug 2021 14:33:11 -0300

It is important to understand how literacy is enhanced and supported through writing in the classroom. Our writing program has to include opportunities to write for others, for ourselves and for academic purposes. Each audience requires specific approaches and styles of writing and developing those skills assists in the over-all goal of literacy development.

Louise Erdich's The Night Watchman and Developing Our Own Literacy Skills

Sun, 01 Aug 2021 14:26:26 -0300

Teachers need to be readers too. WE have to be role models as we pursue literacy goals with our students. In order to Illustrate this, I am going to use an excellent book on one of the American tribes and their struggle to maintain their identity as told through the voices and eyes of the natives themselves. It's an excellent read and is an eye opener for the non-Native person on their struggle to reclaim their own identities and control over their lives.

Developing a Life-Long Love of Reading

Sun, 01 Aug 2021 13:11:56 -0300

We now know that our goal as teachers must always be to aspire to develop a love of reading for its own sake in our students, Only be enjoying reading for the pleasure it brings and the insights it provides on the world will our students be prepared to success in the world of the 21st century,. We can no more constantly pull reading apart into a variety of skills than coaches can constantly push athletes to burnish their skills without enabling play just for play's sake,

The Importance of Diversity in Reading Materials in Enhancing Literacy

Sun, 01 Aug 2021 13:04:52 -0300

If we are to enhance the goals of literacy with every student in every classroom, all the. time, we need to ensure there is access to a wide variety of reading materials appealing to every reading interest, by students of variable reading abilities and perhaps even in a variety of languages. Only when students find books on shelves that interest them and that they can read, will they be enticed to pick it up. off the shelf and spend time with it,

Literacy is Part of What We Do With Our Students or Children Every Day

Sun, 01 Aug 2021 12:24:14 -0300

At one time, literacy development was seen as belonging to the subject domain of Language Arts or English. We now know based upon our understanding of the new kinds of literacy, that developing literacy means partly enhancing ability if the four domains of communication - Reading, Writing, Speaking, Listening. As a result, it is imperative to understand that literacy underlies everything we do in and out of the classroom every day and so we must be aware of the need to address the four modalities throughout the school day and at home as well.

Problem-Based Learning and Assessment - We Assess for Growth

Sun, 01 Aug 2021 12:13:56 -0300

There was a time when assessment meant giving a single letter grade or a percentage to some piece of work or project based upon the finished product or end result. We now know that while that sort of summative assessment has its place, most often we ought to be assessing for growth, or conducting formative assessment, based upon the work in progress and assessing for growth over time.

When You Trap A Tiger - Chapters 44, 45, & 46

Wed, 28 Jul 2021 15:17:29 -0300

The family members are at Halmoni's bedside as she passes away. When they return home, there is a flood in the basement which they have to clean up and then Lily remembers that there is a special fund-raiser at the library the next day and the three of them agree to make rice cakes to sell. The mother realizes she never really asked about how to make rice cakes which she regrets but they make the rice cakes. The next day, they are a success and everyone talks about how sad they are that Halmoni is no longer with them.

When You Trap A Tiger - Chapters 41, 42, & 43

Tue, 27 Jul 2021 15:18:47 -0300

Lily and Sam Rush into the hospital and a kind nurse takes them to Halmoni's room. Needless to say, Halmoni is dying, and first she wants to talk to Sam. Lily goes out where she sees the tiger and the tiger talks to her about ends and beginnings and making one's own stories and that the power is Lily's, not hers. Lily goes back up to the room and it is Lily's turn but instead of talking to Halmoni alone, Lily makes up a story like the one that the tiger told her about the two sisters and the escape to the heavens. It is really about what will happen to Halmoni when she passes away and what will happen to her family after she is gone. Lily finds inner strength she never thought she had.

When You Trap A Tiger - Chapters 39 & 40

Mon, 26 Jul 2021 16:42:21 -0300

Sam is afraid to drive the car because she thinks about the accident that took away her father's life. She. has been carrying around guilt because she didn't tell Lily all the stories about their father and now she is wavering over believing in the Korean magic of Halmoni. Lily knows she has to get help so she rushes to the library and breaks in because she believes the tiger will be there. He is and he agrees to help Lily. So Lily returns to the car and Sam starts to drive with the tiger, who Sam CANNOT see, leading the way.

When You Trap A Tiger - Chapters 37 & 38

Mon, 26 Jul 2021 16:23:21 -0300

Because Lily is making so much noice smashing the star jars, their mom comes in to the room and then Halmoni enters but immediately collapses. Sam dials 911 and an ambulance comes to take Halmoni and their mother to the hospital. After the ambulance leaves, the girls decide they have to go too. Sam says she is calling Jensen to pick them up but Jensen is not answering and Sam admits she is probably out driving around scattering rice to ward off evil spirits.

When You Trap A Tiger - Chapters 35 & 36

Sun, 25 Jul 2021 15:00:06 -0300

Lily wakes up in the middle of the night again hoping to find the tiger, but it is not there. Instead she hears her Halmoni in the bathroom and Lily expresses her frustration to Halmoni who confesses her own frustration with life and holds Lily telling her she knows it is her time to go. Lily refuses to listen and goes up to her room to find Sam climbing in. Again Sam tries to apologize but Lily expresses her anger again. Sam just doesn't seem to care.

When You Trap a Tiger - Chapters 33 & 34

Sun, 25 Jul 2021 14:37:57 -0300

Lily creeps into her room and finds Sam there. Lily gets into bed or tries to and Sam first tries to apologize but Lily ignores her and then Sam pesters Lily about the cold shoulder. Eventually both fall asleep without Sam being able to say what she wants to say. In the morning, Lily and her mom drive over to Ricky's house so Lily can apologize. Lily and Ricky are left alone and end up becoming even better friends by talking about what happened and talking about the problems they have with life in general. Ricky confesses he feels very badly that his mother just went away and indicates that he feels it. was partially his fault. At the end though, the two youngsters are excited about trying to find. a way to trap the tiger.

When You Trap A Tiger - Chapters 31 & 32

Fri, 23 Jul 2021 15:42:50 -0300

Lily wants to get back at Connor and Ricky for insulting Halmoni, so she takes a pudding container and replaces some of the pudding with mud. Then she goes back into the library and gives Ricky the pudding container and he proceeds to eat it and notices it is off. Connor also tries it and agrees. Then Lily tells them she put mud in it and runs off, shame and anger in her tears. At home, Halmoni is not doing very well but Sam tells their mother what happened and Lily feels betrayed. She gets really angry and Sam is sent to check on Haloni while Lily sits with her mother and they talk about what was done that was so bad and how she too feels badly about how she has treated Halmoni.

When You Trap A Tiger - Chapters 29 & 30

Wed, 21 Jul 2021 13:52:18 -0300

The next morning, Lily heads into the kitchen where there has been a flurry of activity. Halmoni has cooked up a storm of Korean food and everyone is excitedly interacting. But Halmoni suddenly looses awareness of where she is and who Lily is and this upsets Lily. Lily also ponders the significance of the pendant and realizes the maybe Halmoni is the character in the story the tiger has been telling her. Halmoni's sudden memory loss upsets Sam and Lily and they go to the library where everyone is preparing for the fundraiser. Everyone is chatting and then someone refers to Halmoni as a witch and a crazy lady. Instead of ignoring this, Lily decides to take action.

When You Trap A Tiger - Chapters 27 & 28

Tue, 20 Jul 2021 17:21:08 -0300

Lily goes into the basement with the star jar and the rice cakes. The tiger eats the rice cakes and doesn't object to them not being exactly as they should be. She then tells Lily another story about another Halmoni and stories and tigers who are angry. Lily struggles to understand. Bu the Tiger leaves her dangling and tells her to return the next night. Lily insists she just wants her harmoni to get better. Lily creeps upstairs and her mother is up and she asks why Lily is up and Lily makes an excuse about being hungry. So her mother opens up the fridge and takes out a container of Kimchi. The two share a moment and Lily's mother says she knows how hard it is for the two girls to deal with what has been going on. Then she notices the jar and tries to remember where and when she saw it. Lily says she just found it among Halmoni's things. They saw good night.

Recommending Alice Oseman's Radio Silence for Seniors in High School

Mon, 19 Jul 2021 22:36:24 -0300

Alice Oseman's book is a book for teens stuck between the world of high school and post-secondary education or work. It deals with all the issues confronting that age today through the lens of the technology. that is so much a part of their lives. It is an excellent book to recommend to teen readers exploring issues of identity of all kinds and definitely has a place not the shelf of any library. It begs for discussions with teens but only if they are open to it. It sheds light on the social and emotional and sexual ennui of adolescence.

When You Trap A Tiger - Chapters 25 & 26

Mon, 19 Jul 2021 22:22:29 -0300

Lily's mother agrees to take her to Ricky's. Ricky lives in a very big house because his father has a very big business. Lily is dropped off and then Ricky and Lily try to make Rice Cakes. Lily is not happy at first but Ricky persuades her that they will be just fine and they do taste good. Lily goes home and her alarm wakes her up at 2:00 in the morning. But Lily wakes to find Sam getting ready to leave using a rope and we are reminded that their mother also escaped from the house. Lily warns Sam to be careful and then she prepares herself to meet the Lion in the basement.

Roald Dahl, James & the Giant Peach, and Activities to Engage Student Readers

Sat, 17 Jul 2021 17:05:24 -0300

Roald Dahl's books have been printed 250 million times and he has been considered by The London Times as one of the best authors of children's books of the 20th Century. James and the Giant Peach was one of his earliest books. It tells the fantastical tale of a magic peach grown from magic seeds and inhabited by anthropomorphic insect characters. James and these characters meet and strange events take them across the Atlantic to New York City. Read or listen to the wonderful story and then engage in some of the activities I have outlined in this podcast.

When You Trap A Tiger - Chapters 23 & 24

Sat, 17 Jul 2021 16:42:17 -0300

Lily tells her family in the morning that she wants to make rice cakes and asks about it being a family activity. Halmoni promised to help Lily but Sam has other ideas. She wants to go out and Sam suggests they go to a favorite Korean restaurant. They argue but Sam wins out. When they get to the restaurant, Halmoni orders her favourite sweet and sour dishes but then forgets where she is and causes a stir and they have to leave in a hurry without eating. Lily is sent into the restaurant from the car to pay for their food and gets a bag of take out to go home. At home, she phones Ricky and asks if she can go over to his house.

When You Trap A Tiger - Chapters 21 & 22

Fri, 16 Jul 2021 17:12:59 -0300

Lily takes one of the star jars down into the basement and puts it in the trap. She falls asleep and when she wakes up, the jar has gone and the tiger is with her but not in the trap. She and the tiger talk about what she is trying to accomplish and the tiger bargains with Lily and tells her that if she listens to a story, it will make things better. The tiger begins to tell her a story about a little girl born with two skins, one human and one animal. But the tiger only tells her part of the story and tells Lily she needs to come to the basement again in the middle of the next night. Lily agrees because the tiger tells her that is the only way she can help her halmoni.

Reading Beverly Cleary's Ramona the Pest Through The Lens of School Today

Tue, 13 Jul 2021 19:01:55 -0300

Ramona the Pest is the second in a series of books written by Beverly Cleary. The series as a whole could be considered dated because this book was written in 1968. BUT, there is much that a teacher can do to help her students learn about the past and have fun at the same time. Ramona is beginning Kindergarten and her older sister Beezus is already in Grade 3, Listen to the trials and tribulations of a little girl starting school and trying to be just like her big sister. Ramona is a very active child, to be sure, but the book represents a moment in time that would enable us to talk with our students about how different life and school is today from 40 years ago.

When You Trap A Tiger - Chapters 19 & 20

Tue, 13 Jul 2021 18:49:28 -0300

Lily explains to Ricky what the jars are and what they contain. She tries to explain without making Ricky laugh at her so she hides some of the details. The two talk about actually capturing the tiger and using bait to lure it into the trap they have created. Lily desperately wants to keep Ricky as a friend without him believing she is totally crazy. Ricky leaves but Lily realizes the bait to. lure the tiger can be the jars. Sam wants to know more about Ricky and what he means to Lily and why he was there and Lily tries to explain yet again and they talk about the stories that Halomi told them were actually real.

When You Trap a Tiger - Chapters 17 & 18

Tue, 13 Jul 2021 18:39:04 -0300

Lily is embarrassed by the presence of Sam and Jensen and doesn't quite know what to say or do. After Lily and Sam dodge those two, they talk about making a trap for the tiger. Ricky comes over to Lily's house to build the trap but doesn't let Sam understand what they are really doing. When they move some boxes around, the stumble upon a box filled with bubble wrapped jars and Lily knows immediately what they are!

The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe by D. S. Lewis and Extending the Learning AFTER

Mon, 12 Jul 2021 21:02:18 -0300

I explain a bit about the series, C. S. Lewis the author and how you can deepen the learning of the students beyond the plain reading of the text. I give the listener six or seven ideas for meaningful projects that students can engage themselves with after reading the book so as to deepen learning and enhance the objectective of literacy development.

When You Trap A Tiger - Chapters 15 & 16

Mon, 12 Jul 2021 19:15:31 -0300

In the morning, Lily and her mother talk and Lily learns that her grandmother has brain cancer and that the cancer causes her to hallucinate. Lily's mother tries to tell Lily not to worry, but of course Lily does. She knows she can help Halmoni by trapping and getting rid of the tiger. The question is how to. Lily goes to the library and talks with Ricky or tries to, without telling Ricky why she wants to trap the tiger for real. The two of them talk about making a trap to catch the tiger..

When You Trap A Tiger - Chapters 13 & 14

Mon, 12 Jul 2021 19:08:35 -0300

Halmoni, Sam and Lily are driving home from the grocery store when Halmoni and Lily see the tiger in the road and Halmoni has to stop the car and vomits and then the girls have to call their mother to come to help them get Halmoni home. Once they are home, Lily's mother tells Lily that Halmoni is sick and they put their grandmother to bed. In the middle of there night, Lily wakens and meets the tiger and the tiger tells Lily she can help her grandmother by giving the stories back to the tiger. Lily struggles in her mind trying to decide how to help Halmoni.

Using Gertrude Chandler Warner's Book The Boxcar Children In the Classroom For Teaching & Learning Purposes

Thu, 01 Jul 2021 18:14:04 -0300

An introduction to Gertrude Chandler Warner, the author of The Boxcar Children series of books begins this podcast.The style of writing was purposefully simple and easy to read because she wanted her readers to love reading books as much as her and she was very successful at this. The book is one of the all-time favourite read aloud books for young children. A brief summary of the book and then six ideas of how to use the book as a teaching and learning tool.

When You Trap A Tiger - Chapters 11 & 12

Thu, 01 Jul 2021 17:21:55 -0300

Lily doesn't find a tiger in the aisle of the library. She meets Ricky who is a boy her age. Ricky is there being tutored by Jensen. Lily and Ricky become acquainted and Jensen tells Ricky that Lily is interested in tigers but not much else. Lily goes home and finds Halmoni is sleeping through lunch. But Lily is worried so she goes to get into bed with her Halmoni and tells her about the tiger appearing again. Halmoni talks to Lily about protection and gives her mugwort to keep in her pocket and her special pendant to wear. Later Halmoni tells Sam and Lily they are going to the store to buy special ingredients to warm off the tigers. At the store, Lily and Sam find that everyone knows Halmoni and everyone just loves her. Lily overhears a fight between Ricky and his father and Halmoni apparently heard something as well because she says something to Ricky's father about helping one another.

Mary Poppins, Then & Now, Literacy, and

Wed, 30 Jun 2021 17:25:16 -0300

Mary Poppins, of course, is an all-time favourite book because of the famous movie and the songs that go with it. But there is great pleasure to be derived from hearing the book before seeing the movie for one who has not seen the movie first. It is very imaginative and students can have endless fun learning the songs, imitating the characters in the book through drama and coming up with new ways to go on with the story. Some students might even have some fun pretending to interview P. L. Travers and ask her where she got the ideas for her books. Some however would not find this book appropriate for any age and this podcast explores some of the ways in which older students could explore the world of P. L. Travers and Mary Poppins.

When You Trap A Tiger - Chapters 9 & 10

Wed, 30 Jun 2021 16:45:56 -0300

In the morning, Lily wakes up and has some breakfast with her mom or at least Mom tries to get Lily to eat. But Lily feels her mother really doesn't know what she likes to eat. Her mom goes off to a job interview but tells Lily to go to the library or something because she likes to read and likes libraries. Once again, Lily thinks her mom really doesn't know her. She does go to the library though because she wants to find information about the Korean tiger and stories from stars in jars. In the library she meets the librarian who shows her around and talks about how wonderful her harmonize is. Then she is introduced to Jensen, a girl who helps in the library and Jensen also talks about how wonderful Halmoni is. Jensen tries to help her find books on tigers. At the end of the chapter, Lily thinks she has just seen the tiger again, in the library.

When You Trap a Tiger - Chapters 7 & 8

Tue, 29 Jun 2021 17:26:13 -0300

Halmoni is indeed sick but she tells Lily it is only a little bug. and then to distract her, tells Lily she has a story to tell about how she stole something. Lily goes with Halmoni into her bedroom and crawls into bed with her, but only after noticing all the pill bottles beside the bed. Halmoni tells her how when she was a girl, in Korea, she stole stories from her own Halmoni and put them into jars. She sealed the jars shut tight and brought them with her to this new land called America. She stole the stories from a tiger and now the tigers are hunting for her.

When You Trap a Tiger - Chapters 5 & 6

Tue, 29 Jun 2021 17:18:31 -0300

Halmoni tells Lily about a tiger who was chasing two little girls and they escape by one taking the stairs up to the sky and the other taking the stairs down below the earth. The tiger is left on the earth frustrated because he lost the search. Then Halmoni goes to bed. When Lily wakes in the morning, she finds that the boxes blocking the path to the basement have been moved. Lily goes into the basement only to discover that it is empty and there couldn't have been a flood. She is left wondering why the basement is dry but when she comes up Halmoni is in the bathroom.

When You Trap a Tiger - Chapters 3 & 4

Sun, 27 Jun 2021 20:34:09 -0300

Standing in the rain, at the front door of their Halumi, Lilly and Sam watch as their mother sneaks in through a window and realize that this is something their mother must have done as a kid. When they get inside, they get silk pajamas from their grandmother's cupboard and notice the pile of boxes blocking the path to the basement. Soon enough Halumi comes home and castigates everyone for worrying about her. It is obvious that Lilly and Halumi have a very special relationship and understand each other completely. They spend time getting things ready for dinner and Lilly notices that all is not just as it should be with her grandmother. WE are made aware of the fact that she is very old-fashioned and very traditional in her ways in some ways but not in others.

When You Trap a Tiger - Chapters 1 & 2

Sun, 27 Jun 2021 18:03:31 -0300

Sam & Lilly, two Korean sisters, are headed to stay at the home of their Halmoni, or grandmother in a car with their mother. Sam is busy on her phone and arguing. Lilly is hiding and talking to herself and their mother is struggling with the driving in the rainy weather. Lilly it watching the houses go by and then all of a sudden she sees bright orange and black instead of the grey of the rainy day and she knows it is a tiger. She tries to get her mother to stop but she doesn't. She thinks they will hit the tiger but all of a sudden it disappears. Lilly can't figure it out but she knows her Halmoni will understand. When they get to their grandmother's house, the rain is pouring down and they make a run for the house up the stairs but their mother knocks but no one is there.

Charlotte's Web - Chapter Twenty Two - Warm Wind

Sun, 20 Jun 2021 17:41:27 -0300

Wilbur has indeed been saved from slaughter and spends a quiet winter watching over the egg sac. In the spring, as the weather warms up, the spiders hatch one by one and take off. Wilbur begs them to stay and be his friends. He persuades three to stay and they do. Year after year he makes new friends with each generation and always two or three stay to keep him company and be his friends. And they live happily ever after in the barn like that.

Charlotte's Web - Chapter Twenty One - Last Day

Sun, 20 Jun 2021 17:34:50 -0300

Everyone is packing up and getting ready to go home. Wilbur notices that Charlotte is very quiet and asks why. Charlotte tells him she is dying and Wilbur is upset he has never done anything for Charlotte. He decides he will take her egg sac with them back to the barn knowing that his is going to live there. Templeton is recruited to take the egg sac down in exchange for a promise to let him eat first from the pig's trough. Mission is accomplished.

Charlotte's Web - Chapter Twenty - The Hour ofTriumph

Sun, 20 Jun 2021 17:29:41 -0300

In which Wilbur is taken into the stadium and to the judges' table where he is given a special prize for his appearance and personality. He faints when he realizes what is happening and then the family has to get him up or else he won't keep the prize. The members of the family try dousing him with water, but it is a bite from Templeton that revives him. Everyone is happy at last.

Problem-Based Learning and Its Link to the Modalities of Language

Wed, 02 Jun 2021 17:00:54 -0300

Whenever students are collaborating on problem based learning, they are using the modalities of language - reading, writing, speaking, listening - automatically. They become a part of the process in a natural way and that involves all aspects of the process. From beginning to end, they are communicating to themselves, to each other and to others in the class including the teacher. Practice does indeed make perfect and it helps to be practicing without even trying.

Using Problem Based Learning to Cultivate Deep Learning

Wed, 02 Jun 2021 16:54:53 -0300

When students are asked to work together on Problem Based Learning Tasks, they are given an opportunity to ponder and solve challenges using the knowledge, skills and affect they already possess and integrate those with what they have taken from their reading of a book for instance. They are therefore deepening learning and mastering new skills as they progress. If you have any questions about this, just ask yourself what happens to you when you set about attempting something you have never done before. It is exactly the same process.

There Is More Than One Way To Demonstrate New Learning

Wed, 02 Jun 2021 16:46:11 -0300

One of the single most often asked questions about novel read aloud, problem based learning and culminating performance tasks is how to assess them accurately. This podcast will explore the issue of assessment of products generated in problem based learning.

Bloom's Taxonomy & Deep Learning

Wed, 02 Jun 2021 16:39:59 -0300

When we read books aloud or facilitate novel reading by students in front of us, in order to cultivate learning, we need to question students. Only when we prompt deep learning do students process the novel and its elements. Bloom's six - stage Taxonomy helps us understand how to progress from knowledge and comprehension to evaluating and creating. At the lower order thinking skills, students are not challenged to process as much as they are at the higher order skill levels. This podcast walks the listener through these stages and what they mean.

Using a Novel Read Aloud to Cultivate Skill Development

Wed, 02 Jun 2021 16:31:40 -0300

In this podcast, I try to address how I have used a novel read to a class aloud over a period of time to cultivate problem based learning which is integrated with more than two or three school subject areas. By involving problem based learning centred around issues raised in a novel, students deepen their new learning and extend their conceptual development while tackling tasks that in themselves enable formative assessment on student progress.

Fighting Words By Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

Mon, 31 May 2021 19:21:15 -0300

There are some topics that may be uncomfortable to read about or talk about, but still need to be put on the table for some specific students or groups of students to read about and talk about. It has to be seen as part of social and emotional development as well as literacy. Such a book is Fighting Words by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley. It deals with sexual and physical abuse and the power of sisterhood and friendship as a path to recovery. This podcast deals with the outline of this book.

Those Who Read, Succeed! What DoesThat Really Mean?

Mon, 31 May 2021 19:13:48 -0300

When I say, as I do repeatedly, that those who read succeed, what does that really mean to imply? What does it have to do with Literacy? Why is this so important as an end goal in our educational system.?

James & The Giant Peach - Chapters 37, 38, & 39

Mon, 31 May 2021 17:46:12 -0300

In which James introduces all his friends to the citizens of New York after they realized all those "monsters" included a little boy. Then the book ends with a ticker tape parade and a telling of how all the Peach Passengers made out in their new lives.

James & The Giant Peach - Chapters 34, 35, & 36

Mon, 31 May 2021 17:44:12 -0300

In which, now that the centipede was freed by the rain storm, the travellers admire all the sites as they float above the ocean until, as the sun came up in the west, they realized they were floating over New York City BUT now the residents of the city below begin to prepare themselves for the dropping of a giant bomb, since that is what they think the peach is. THEN

James & the Giant Peach - Chapter 31, 32, & 33

Mon, 31 May 2021 17:42:30 -0300

James & The Giant Peach - Chapters 28, 29, & 30

Mon, 31 May 2021 17:40:18 -0300

In which they interrupted Cloud-Men as they were painting a giant rainbow and then in which, next, the Cloud-Men fought back by throwing cans of paint at the peach, hitting the centipede who ended up stuck solidly to the peach, and then, next they went through a terrible rain storm, which sounds like it might have even been a hurricane. THEN

James & The Giant Peach - Chapters 25, 26, & 27

Mon, 31 May 2021 17:38:39 -0300

In which, having saved themselves from the sharks in the ocean below, they tell James in turn why they are valuable to men and what makes them special and THEN the Centipede falls off the top of the Peach and James has to rescue him from the ocean using string that the silkworm spun and THEN they meet little cloud-men making hailstones and the cloud-men start aiming at them at the peach. THEN

James & The Giant Peach - Chapters 22, 23, & 24

Mon, 31 May 2021 17:34:01 -0300

In which they harness enough birds to achieve lift-off and then they start sailing under the clouds and are sighted by an ocean liner and then they have a party and are entertained by the grasshopper who makes beautiful music. THEN

James & the Giant Peach - Chapters 19, 20, & 21

Mon, 31 May 2021 17:31:54 -0300

In which James and his friends see sharks circling the giant peach in search of food and in which the alarm is sounded that they have to do something to save themselves and then in which James devises a brilliant scheme involved spiders and silkworms and harnessing sea gulls to the stem of the peach. THEN

James & The Giant Peach - Chapters 16, 17, & 18

Mon, 31 May 2021 17:29:23 -0300

In which the peach falls from the stem holding it to the tree and rolls down the hill until it flies off the cliffs of Dover into the sea and then James and friends recover from their trip and go outside by climbing using ladders the spider has spun for them and then they decide that they can eat the peach because they are hungry and talk about all the foods that they love. THEN

James & The Giant Peach - Chapters 13, 14, & 15

Mon, 31 May 2021 17:26:43 -0300

In which Spider spins hammocks for each of James's new friends and then James meets one more friend, the Glowworm who has to turn out her light so everyone can sleep. In the morning, the Giant Peach begins to move down the hill and then the aunts have to run away but don't quite make it and go SPLAT! THEN

James & The Giant Peach - Chapters 10, 11, & 12

Mon, 31 May 2021 17:24:42 -0300

In which James explores a cave opening into the peach and goes through a door opening and then he meets creatures that are. just as large proportionately as the peach (including an earthworm, a grasshopper, a spider, a centipede, and a ladybug ) and then they get to know each other. THEN

James & The Giant Peach - Chapters 7, 8, & 9

Mon, 31 May 2021 17:22:30 -0300

In which the peach on the tree grows and grows and next the oddity attracts so much attention that they sell tickets to the spectators and next James is pushed out after dark to clean up the mess left behind. THEN

James & The Giant Peach - Chapters 4, 5, & 6

Mon, 31 May 2021 17:20:01 -0300

In which James is given specific instructions on what to do to invoke the magic, then in which he has an accident and fate takes over, then the peach tree in the yard begins to grow miraculously and the aunts plan to eat the whole thing themselves, THEN

James & The Giant Peach - Chapters 1 2, & 3

Mon, 31 May 2021 17:17:47 -0300

In which we meet James, then he becomes and orphan, then he is adopted by his horrid aunts, and then he meets up with something that will change his life, THEN

Charlotte's Web -Chapter 10 - The Egg Sac

Sun, 30 May 2021 17:54:11 -0300

First of all, everyone gets up and returns to the Fair. Wilbur wakes up and sees the egg sac which Charlotte has weaved during the night. Everyone else sees the word HUMBLE in the Web. They also see the blue ribbon that Uncle has hanging on the side of his stye, But then the loudspeaker announces that Wilbur is to receive a special award and everyone hustles to get to the grandstand for the special event,

Charlotte's Web - Chapter 18 - Cool of the Evening

Sun, 30 May 2021 17:31:46 -0300

We learn that Templeton, in the evening, goes foraging for food and a word for Charlotte. Charlotte weaves the word HUMBLE into her web and then goes into a new corner to work on her masterpiece. Wilbur worries about the competition tomorrow and is thankful he has Charlotte with him. The humans in the story go home, have dessert and go to bed.

Charlotte's Web - Chapter 17 - Uncle

Sun, 30 May 2021 16:53:04 -0300

In which the two families and their cargo arrive at the fair and everyone gets settled. Fern and Avery get some money and get cautions about what to do and not to do. Charlotte and Wilbur chat in the new stall. Charlotte declares she is getting very tired. Charlotte and Wilbur meet Uncle, another pig who is much bigger than Wilbur and they see that he is going to be a threat. Everyone meets at the truck for lunch and a bit of a nap.

Charlotte's Web - Chapter 16 - Off To The Fair

Sun, 30 May 2021 16:36:01 -0300

The day before the fair has arrived and it is agreed that Mrs. Zuckerman is going to give Wilbur a buttermilk bath to make his as shiny as possible. The animals talk about the trip and it is agreed that Templeton and Charlotte will each go along to help Wilbur. The morning arrives and although there are some problems getting Wilbur into the crate and on his way, everything sorts itself out and off they go.

Charlotte'sWeb - Chapter 15 - The Crickets

Sun, 30 May 2021 16:10:08 -0300

Charlotte and everyone else begin to hear the crickets singing which is a sign of fall coming. Talk begins about the country fair and making sure Wilbur is the best pig there. Wilbur wants Charlotte to come with him to the fair but she tells him she can't. She has to stay to lay eggs and get herself ready for the change of seasons too.

Charlotte's Web - Chapter Fourteen - Dr. Dorian

Mon, 17 May 2021 22:15:38 -0300

Fern tells her mother she is going to the barn to visit with her friends. It's a Saturday and Mrs. Arable is more than a bit annoyed by the things Fern says about animals talking. So Mrs. Arable lets Fern go to Zuckerman's and she visits Dr. Dorian to talk about Fern. Dr. Dorian suggests that it sounds like Fern is perfectly okay!

Charlotte's Web - Chapter Thirteen - Good Progress

Mon, 17 May 2021 21:55:38 -0300

Charlotte spends the night weaving the word TERRIFIC into her web, which of course attracts a lot of attention. But she is not happy with that word; She sends Templeton back to the dump looking for a new word and for a while they settle on RADIANT.