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Self Talk & Emotions: Three activities to explore 54 Things Wrong with Gwendolyn Rogers
Literacy, Core Competencies, SEL, Read Aloud, Class Community Melissa Salter Literacy, Core Competencies, SEL, Read Aloud, Class Community Melissa Salter

Self Talk & Emotions: Three activities to explore 54 Things Wrong with Gwendolyn Rogers

Using literature to unpack self talk and build class community is powerful. Three more activities to do with 54 Things Wrong with Gwendolyn Rogers. I also share a few ideas for how I design lessons linked to books I am reading. Making a novel do double or triple duty in the intermediate classroom makes engagement with the text even deeper.

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54 Things Wrong With…how kids have been talked about!
Literature, IEP, Student Voice, Read Aloud Melissa Salter Literature, IEP, Student Voice, Read Aloud Melissa Salter

54 Things Wrong With…how kids have been talked about!

I introduced the book 54 Things Wrong with Gwendolyn Rogers by Caela Carter today. This book is amazing and hard. It is one of the Surrey School Book of the Year Nominees for 2022/23.

The activity I did to introduce the book broke my heart. I learned so much about how kids see themselves as well as how they think adults see them. This post reflects on the lesson and my learning.

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