2011-12 Book Nook Schedule

Do you want to get a head start in reading the Sunshine State Readers for the upcoming school year.

Click here for the 2011-12 Book Nook Schedule. 

Mrs. Appelman has started reading the Sunshine State Readers. I am almost done with my first book Out of My Mind. The July book that I will be reading is Umbrella Summer. Due to time, I will not have a Book Nook talk on these books, but encourage for you to read with me anyways over the summer. The first book I will have a Book Nook talk on is Captain Nobody. Since we will only be in school for 2 weeks in August, I encourage all that want to participate start reading before we return to school. Enjoy your summer and Happy Reading!!!!!!!!!

Summer Reading for Mrs. Appelman

I received a Amazon Kindle from my family and it allows me to download books. In fact, I can carry hundreds of books in this little device. While looking at the books I could buy, I found one of the new Sunshine State Readers for 2011-12 school year and I downloaded it.

So if you want to know what Mrs. Appelman is reading, the book is Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper.

As I began to read, I realized I really had no idea what this story was going to be about from the story's title. We often use the title of books to predict what may happen in the story. My predictions were all wrong! So as I started to read, I had to adjust my predictions from the story and began using my questioning strategy.

I hope you have started your summer reading!!!!!!