Habari Gani? Those Swahili words, meaning What’s the News?, may soon become as familiar a holiday message as Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, or Happy New Year. For Habari Gani? is the ritual greeting of Kwanzaa and Kwanzaa is the world’s fastest growing holiday.
The following activities can be adapted to a whole class, small literature group, or small guided reading group. Choose one or more activities from each section to support comprehension before, during, and after reading the book. In addition, the author has also included numerous writing activities in Chapter 9 – “You Be the Sportscaster,” and
Goals:
• To motivate students to want to write – building self-esteem and pride
• To integrate the Studentreasures® Classbook Publishing Project with the five step writing process
• To align the publishing process with your curriculum by incorporating your Language Arts Writing Standards, various teaching units, subjects, theme topics and genres
Objective: The students will create a full-color
Diverse Learner: ELPS (gifted)
This lesson plan is designed to meet the needs of gifted learners. Gifted learners have many characteristics. They are able to conceptualize abstract concepts better than their peers. They organize and synthesize new ideas better than their peers. They are able to analyze data systematically and identify patterns better than their peers.
Gifted
Diverse Learner (verbal learning disabilities)
Students with learning disabilities are of average intelligence (or greater), yet they have difficulty receiving, processing, analyzing, or storing information. Verbal learning disabilities make it difficult for students to read, write, and spell. These students tend take avoid reading out loud in front of the class and avoid writing assignments. This