Global Read Aloud Kickoff!!

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Please join our class discussion about this year's Global Read Aloud: The Bridge Home!  
Each week we will post the chapters we read along with a discussion question 
from author, Padma Venkatraman's discussion guide.   


We hope our discussion can GO GLOBAL!!

#GRA19 #GRAbridge #eng8CAFE

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  1. St. Mary's, Tokyo, JapanSeptember 24, 2019 at 12:29 AM

    How can I get my students to join this? I have a group of 30 gr. 6 boys in Tokyo Japan. Can we just write on here when the question come up? We can't wait to start reading next Monday.

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    1. lguzmanSeptember 24, 2019 at 10:14 PM

      I know you can go to https://theglobalreadaloud.com/ to register your kids. There are all sorts of really neat activities (INCLUDING THIS ONE) at this link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mNPhSbVt6M9M2agIgxNjxRo4qn1YaC7aWYzFS-bECwc/edit#gid=2131742463
      If you have any other questions, I know anyone would be happy to help you. I am Laura, and my email is lguzman@ccsd89.org. Likewise, I am sure the awesome teacher who put this blog together will be able to help as well. This is so amazing; books bringing the world together! Much better than war and politics any day! :-)

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    2. Mrs. DowneySeptember 27, 2019 at 5:25 AM

      Please just share the link and have them comment! I will post an Introduce Yourself post so we can all try it out! I'm so excited!

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  2. UnknownSeptember 26, 2019 at 7:22 PM

    My class is interested in participating. We are looking forward to further instructions!

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  3. Mrs. DowneySeptember 27, 2019 at 5:24 AM

    Hi all! I'm so excited to see folks want to participate! Each week I will post one of the discussion questions from the author in a post just like this. Then students from ANYWHERE (yay!) will get to leave a comments, again just like this, and even reply back to each other with out having to worry about time zones! As a writing teacher, my goal is to help them communicate using correct grammar and punctuation but getting students to DISCUSS with each other is the beauty of a blog!

    Right now you need to have a google account to post, we are a Google for Education school so all of our students have accounts. Will this work for everyone? Please let me know :)

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  4. Mrs. DowneyOctober 1, 2019 at 5:05 AM

    Wanted to share this link with audio resources for our students. The author even read the first few pages!

    https://padmavenkatraman.com/teacher-resources-for-the-bridge-home-gra19-grabridge-projectlit-justreadit/

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