Labels

In order to ensure that you get credit for your work. Please always label your posts appropriately. One of the following labels should always be used.
(Remember labels should be one word or multiple words squished together.)

• SelfConnection
• TextConnection
• NewsConnection
• SchoolConnection
  
• Vocabulary
• BlogsIRead
• Review
  
• Other

Using these tags will make it easy for me to see the variety of posts you have created.

Types of Posts

There are many different types of posts you can do on your independent reading blog. You may come up with brilliant new ideas that aren't listed here. That's great. Vary the types of posts you do, be thoughtful and creative.

• Connect what you 're reading to a personal experience.
• Connect what you're reading to another book you've read.
• Connect what you're reading to a current event.
• Connect what you're reading to something you've learned about in school.
• Choose a particularly interesting new vocabulary word or term you came across in your reading, explain and define it.
• Reflect on a blog post that you read and link to it.
• Reflect on a magazine or newspaper article and link to it.
• Review or recommend something you have read.
  

Blog Requirements

The requirements for this blog are as follows:

• write intermittent posts about the novels they are reading independently
• write posts about blogs they are following as part of their independent reading requirement
• write posts about magazines, newspapers or other sources of independent reading
• to vary the types of posts that they put on their blog
• to create links both to the readings they reference and to other resources related to the content of their blog.
• Ask questions in your posts that invite other people to comment or make suggestions.
• Comment constructively on other student's blogs.