How to address violence in the news with your students.
Updated September 2015
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English Language Arts, Character & SEL
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BookLikes
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Community Rating
Great for some kids, a chore for other
Book Likes is a cool site - nice interface, easy to navigate - for tracking your reading, blogging about books, and sharing recommendations. It really focuses on the blog aspect (sharing ideas and opinions about books) which is nice. It's not a lot different from sites like Goodreads, though.
My students used (when this kind of site first came around) to be excited about their digital bookshelves, showing the growth in their reading and the record of their reviews. Today, however, some of them get ...
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