C4T 4

This post was a letter to author's of children's books. She was encouraging author's to make their books more affordable. Actually I think the word she used was cheap. She suggested they make offers from time to time on sites like kindle daily deal.kindledailydeal She talks about her students having access to an iPad and i Pods through their school library. She encourages the authors to give deals to get recognized and there by increase sales of all their books.
Today I read an older post because the assigned teacher hasn't posted since December. In this post she was recounting trying to teach empathy to her students. She did so by assigning 3 books to choose from. After they chose they had to blog about the main character(who has a disability). In class they had discussion on how the characters were different and how they would feel if they had the same problem. The students commented: “I think just smiling at people is important. Melody tried to smile, but people didn’t know it.” & “Sometimes we think we might know what’s in other people’s heads but I think we don’t know.”
Mrs.White really seems to enjoy her students. It seems she really puts reading at the forefront of her lessons. Reading is pivotal whether it be on an IPad or Kindle or just a paper book. Reading can introduce our students to places, subjects, and times they will never experience in their own towns, homes and schools.