Hello Readers, So in our 6th Grade Chapter of SMS Guys Read we are embarking on a new experience, conducting our club a few days a week during our enrichment period. So embolden by the hope that we enrich ourselves, we will use our Wednesday meetings to attack a great book by Ralph Fletcher called…
Hello Readers, Tuesday was our 7th/8th grade meeting day and after a few discussions about new T-shirts and collective reading, a few of us decided to write a story. We used Rory’s Story Cubes to help us generate some ideas. It was a load of fun and we are sure to try it again soon.…
Hello Readers, Today we continued to work on our writing challenge. All of the lads have ideas formed or forming. Some are quite good and some needed a little help from our secret weapon… The Story Cubes. These story cubes helped William and Matthew generate some ideas and now they have a cool base for…
Hello Readers (and Writers), Today we had a fun lunch time meeting. We started the meeting with the awesome news that Guys Read: The Sports Pages showed up yesterday afternoon. A big Thank You goes to Ms. Yingling over at Ms. Yingling Reads who not only sent us The Sport Pages, but also included The…
Hello Readers, Today we had our first Guys Read meeting now that we are thinking about trying to add writing into our meeting chaos. I reviewed our plans and what we want to do with the lads. From there the guys started talking up some ideas and filling in a planning sheet. The buzz is…
Hello Readers, I have had a Guys Read dream, a dream that I have wanted to work on since the very beginnings of SMS Guys Read. That dream is a writing dream. Jon Scieszka’s original Guys Write for Guys Read book is such a great model for guys writing. The stories are short and full…
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