Reading Rocks! Facilitator Training
Registration Closed.
Last Date to Register: 10/1/2012 12:01 AM
Last Date to Cancel: 9/28/2012 12:01 AM
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This discussion is designed for teachers or GT coordinators who will be facilitating one of the Reading Rocks! online book discussions. Reading Rocks! is a shared service with CESA 5 member schools. Participation is open to all CESA 5 students with gifts and talents in the academic domain of ELA. Participation is open to member schools. While readings will target pre-teens in grades 5-6, participation is not limited by grade level. Participation in Reading Rocks! requires a member school to facilitate one monthly web-based book discussion. The purpose of the online book chats are for students to:
Interact in engaging conversations with other enthusiastic readers & dialogue with other avid readers students from other schools as well as your local classmates
Promote reading and discussion using textual evidence to support claims
Provide scholarly, thought-provoking dialogue
Expand vocabulary
Reading Rocks! is designed as an anchor activity for avid readers who may ask the question “I’m done with my book, what should I do now?”
Facilitator training will include:
1. Overview of the goals of reading rocks
2. Student participation guidelines
3. Teacher information
4. Parent letter
5. Review of 2012-13 booklist
6. Introduction to Edmodo online collaborative tool including:
- CWTAG/CESA 5 Edmodo facilitator account login
- adding/removing students
- awarding badges
- making an assignment/posting questions
- editing/deleting posts
- monitoring posts
7. Developing "thick" critical thinking questions
8. Posting the student evaluation form