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TODAY WAS CAUDILL DAY FOR 6TH GRADE
Today
the 6th grade ELA classes were scheduled to visit the IMC for my book
talk on the 2014 Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award nominees. I
had planned to have student assistants work the reveal boxes on the
Mimio display as I presented each book with information on the main
characters, story summary, genres, and book cover. Then students
would select their first Caudill nominee for their next book report.
Unfortunately when I went to set up the equipment this morning, the
laptop computer would not connect to the LCD projector. That meant I
had to move the presentation to the classrooms where I had not tried
the equipment. The presentation went on but without the student
assistant part since the classroom Mimio setups had their own
problems. So I got the reveal job. Fortunately the
nominees this year were so good that the students got very excited
about the choices and stayed focus through the entire book talk. The
rush to check out showed their enthusiasm for the books. The students
will need to read or listen to at least three nominated books to be
eligible to vote in February. Voting will be done on computer using
the library automation voting program. With such great books this
year it may be difficult for one book to rise to the top here at
Lakeview and across the state of Illinois. For a complete list of the
2014 nominees use the following Internet link:
