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From: Isaacs <isaacs>
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 18:32:00 -0500 (EST)
a belated reply because it keeps coming back to me...
From isaacs at midget.towson.eduWed Jan 22 18:28:38 1997 Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 18:48:21 00 (EST) From: Isaacs To: ccbc-net at ccbc.soemadison.wisc.edu Subject: Number the Stars
On Wed, 15 Jan 1997, Kathleen Horning wrote:
Thanks for the allusion, Katy, and I was interested in your experiences with the younger children. One correction...I haven't "used" this book with middle schoolers. They have chosen to read it on their own, finding it in a school or public library or receiving it as a gift. I hear about their reactions because independent reading is a part of their English program. I find that many books - and certainly a book like this - can be read and discussed in a classroom at a much lower grade level than they can be read and digested alone, or with a few friends. That's another argument for fairly broad "reading levels" if they are necessary on books.
Kathy Isaacs isaacs at midget.towson.edu Edmund Burke School Washington, DC
Received on Wed 22 Jan 1997 05:32:00 PM CST
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 18:32:00 -0500 (EST)
a belated reply because it keeps coming back to me...
From isaacs at midget.towson.eduWed Jan 22 18:28:38 1997 Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 18:48:21 00 (EST) From: Isaacs To: ccbc-net at ccbc.soemadison.wisc.edu Subject: Number the Stars
On Wed, 15 Jan 1997, Kathleen Horning wrote:
Thanks for the allusion, Katy, and I was interested in your experiences with the younger children. One correction...I haven't "used" this book with middle schoolers. They have chosen to read it on their own, finding it in a school or public library or receiving it as a gift. I hear about their reactions because independent reading is a part of their English program. I find that many books - and certainly a book like this - can be read and discussed in a classroom at a much lower grade level than they can be read and digested alone, or with a few friends. That's another argument for fairly broad "reading levels" if they are necessary on books.
Kathy Isaacs isaacs at midget.towson.edu Edmund Burke School Washington, DC
Received on Wed 22 Jan 1997 05:32:00 PM CST