Noting important or difficult language and vocabularyĤ. Noting important events and/or questionsģ.
This resource contains a Literature Circle Packet with activities that practice 4 reading strategies:ġ.
It is a great read for any classroom, and allows students to be inspired by a struggle many children and adults can relate to! I used this with my 5th grade classroom, but can easily be delved into "deeper" with 6th or 7th grade. (Nov.My Thirteenth Winter is a memoir written by Samantha Abeel, who struggled through school and life with a math learning disability, dycalculia. Her memoir, expressing both her talents and her intense frustration at not being able to perform everyday tasks like telling time and making change, conjures a haunting, intriguing portrait of a lonely outsider using creative outlets to earn acceptance from herself and others. Despite her triumphs, however, Abeel frankly admits that some obstacles in her path will never go away. She recounts the encouragement she received to develop her talent as a writer, and traces her growing fame after her first book, Reach for the Moon
The author evokes the rush of relief she felt when, at age 13, she was finally diagnosed with dyscalculia. I am terrified there is something really wrong with me," Abeel writes of sitting through a fourth grade math class). Offering an intimate documentary, the author analyzes each stage of her life from an adult perspective, periodically recreating significant moments in her development-and using adult language to do so: "There was no truer feeling of joy or of all-consuming passion than when I had an opportunity to use my imagination in creative play." She examines her painful childhood, when she felt isolated from her peers and was fraught with anxieties about her inability to measure time and distance ("I feel so far away from everyone, removed, alone in my ignorance. Abeel's charged autobiography about growing up both learning-disabled and gifted may be better suited for parents and teachers than children.
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