Pirate Diary September 30, 2009

This is a very useful resource.  The double entry diary would be a wonderful activity to do with your students.  It incorporates so many ideas.  It would get them thinking about the reading.  Instead of reading just to answer questions, they would have to read for understanding.  It also makes the students pull out the vocabulary that they may not be familiar with and find the definition.  All the other activities would also be fun for the students to complete.  I really liked doing things that didn’t seem like work in school and some of the activities like creating a flag and electing a crew and naming a ship seem like a lot of fun!  At first it may seem like a lot for students to complete but once they look at it and understand the directions it will seem just fine.  I wish teachers would have used activities like this one when I was in school.  I feel like I would have learned a lot more about the things I was required to read.

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