Global Read Aloud

I am so excited about the project we will be participating in, Global Read Aloud.  This world-wide project is meant to connect students through the sharing of one book that is read aloud over the course of 6 weeks.  The book selected for GRA 2013 is Marty McGuire.  During this project not only will I incorporate many of our reading standards, but our class will also have the opportunity to connect with other first grade classrooms--one from Wisconsin and the other from Oregon.  Prior to reading the first chapter we made predictions about the book, blogged and the class from Wisconsin commented on each students blog.  In return we read their predictions and commented back on their blogs. On Friday, I also had them post connections they had with the first two chapters.  As for next week we hope to Skype with the class from Oregon, create graphs as well as submit questions to the author, Kate Messner, as she plans to answer questions in videos that she'll post every Friday starting October 11th.