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Archives for April, 2009

Your opinions – What do you think about your blog/ digital portfolio? What should we do next?

Dear Grade 6 and 7 students, Now that you have got used to using your blog/ digital portfolio we would like to know what you think about it. Tell us your ideas. Use the following questions if you want or just write a really good blog post about how we can make these blogs better. [...]

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Grade 7 Genre Reading, trying something new

Grade 7 students, When we find a style of book that we like we tend to read the whole series and then read books that are very similar. For example, we may read the whole Harry Potter series and then decide to read the Chronicles of Narnia. This is called reading within the same genre [...]

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