Description
Thinking Outside the Book is an ideal course for educators looking for resources to guide students toward creating unique and complex assignments. You’ll learn to lead them to have a deeper response to quality literature, which will ultimately help their love and respect for reading.
In this one-hour course you will learn to incorporate a variety of media to differentiate responses and push your students toward thinking and creating outside the book.
Trainers Sheila Mulbry and Nicole Shannon share their personal best-practices on:
- Using mysteries in literature
- Developing puzzle fiction projects
- Creating personal response papers
- Identifying themes and vocabulary in literature
- Writing mini-research reports
And more!
Visit the TAGT website to learn more about the Texas Association for the Gifted and Talented.
This course is aligned with 2016 ODE Teacher Competencies a, b, c, e, f, g and NAGC Teacher Preparation Standards 2.2, 3.3, 3.4, 5.1.
Azurray – SINTON ISD (verified owner) –
This is a great course at providing different examples of ways to challenge to think more about what they are reading and connect it to the world around them, much like doing a Close Read. Just keep in mind it is geared more towards upper elementary through high school.
Noemi – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
Loved every strategy. Each one can be used in all classroom settings and is age appropriate to any grade level.
April – MIDWAY ISD – WOODWAY (verified owner) –
Excellent ideas!
sarah – BURLESON ISD (verified owner) –
It had good book choices.
Sheila – DRIPPING SPRINGS ISD (verified owner) –
Well done course. Ideal for grades 3 through middle school.
Kathleen – LITTLE CYPRESS-MAURICEVILLE CISD (verified owner) –
Good practical ideas!
shelly – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) –
informative
Cynthia – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
Useful ideas and information to implement in my classroom with my students.
Diana – GOOSE CREEK CISD (verified owner) –
Lots of great ideas!! I can’t wait to try some of them. Little fast-paced in some sections and more examples would be helpful. But overall, great information.
Cynthia – BOERNE ISD (verified owner) –
There are good ideas here.
Hila – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) –
This is an excellent course that confirms some of my currently used practices.
Adrian – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
This course offered many ideas that reading teachers can use to promote thinking outside the book.
Lara – HUTTO ISD (verified owner) –
It was a good course with good ideas. I think seeing actual student work and/or modeling of the techniques with actual students would have been helpful.
Lourdes – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
It was a very interesting course.
Sylvia – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
This course had many good writing activities that can be useful with any novel.
Tracy – MANSFIELD ISD (verified owner) –
The Bee video is too long. Would love to shorten that and give more exapmples…
Elizabeth – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
I really enjoyed learning about all the variety of ways students can look at a book besides the typical responses.
Monica – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
I teach math so incorporating this idea would be a little difficult as I have yet to see it occur in classrooms. But with other subjects this will work perfectly.
Stephanie – WYLIE ISD (verified owner) –
These are all great ideas for thinking outside the book!
Belinda – MCKINNEY ISD (verified owner) –
This is a informative class. I like how specific books were used with titles and examples on how to utilize them to extend learning in class.
Stephanie – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
It helps students to use their imagination and think outside the box
Sunny – HARPER ISD (verified owner) –
Great
Amy – HARPER ISD (verified owner) –
Awesome!
Jennifer – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Love the presentation
Maikely – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) –
This was very informative is geared towards 3rd grade and older.
Beth – LA VEGA ISD (verified owner) –
Good synopsis of story that could be used in the classroom and strategies to use with them.
Josselin – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Expands ideas from more than just a book.
Cecilia – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
Very interesting activities.
Cecilia – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent ideas!
Morgan – MANSFIELD ISD (verified owner) –
It was great!
Carmina – Private Pay (verified owner) –
I would like to see some examples of dual language applications, or an example for any foreign language.
Karen – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –
This course was so helpful to me because it gave me a lot of ideas to use in my classroom.
Dawn – LUBBOCK ISD (verified owner) –
This has some great ideas.
Maria – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed the different ways presented to get students motivated to enjoy reading instead of just finishing the book.
Alejandro – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
Writing is one of the best ways for students to learn. This course is very helpful especially for differentiation.
Sandra – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Interesting
Wendi – HARPER ISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas, very interesting!
Deidre – CLEBURNE ISD (verified owner) –
Good, simple information.
Carlos – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
its a good course, shows other things we can do for students to think outside the box/book
Kelley – MCKINNEY ISD (verified owner) –
It was great.
Jodi – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed learning new ideas for reading responses.
Dora – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
very informative
Francisca – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
I would rate this 4 out of 5. I liked this course, but more details are needed.
Teena – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
Will look into some of the resources presented, but many of the projects discussed would require major class time and independent research skills that students at the lower grade levels do not possess. Best for upper elementary or middle/high school
Tania – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Insightful course.
Shelly – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
Wonderful course with many good ideas to help students respond to literature in a much more meaningful way.
LINDA – GOOSE CREEK CISD (verified owner) –
As a Gt teacher, I learn new ideas that will help my students problem solve.
Shay – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –
Lots of great ideas!
Erica – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
awesome resources for research projects
Mariea – WYLIE ISD (verified owner) –
It has a lot of good ideas but maybe separate it into an elementary course and a middle school/intermediate course. Several of the ideas, while very good, were just not applicable to the lower elementary students.