{"id":1277,"date":"2017-07-09T10:00:39","date_gmt":"2017-07-09T10:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paddyeger.com\/educatingamerica\/blog\/?p=1277"},"modified":"2017-07-09T10:00:39","modified_gmt":"2017-07-09T10:00:39","slug":"literacy-6-mixing-it-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/2017\/07\/09\/literacy-6-mixing-it-up\/","title":{"rendered":"LITERACY #6 Mixing It Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1321\" src=\"http:\/\/www.paddyeger.com\/educatingamerica\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/kidcarryingbooks.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"276\" height=\"360\" \/>Summer! The perfect time to carry around a book and spend time with favorite or new characters and subjects. This is # 6 in my 8-part series on Summer Literacy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here are a hodge-podge of ideas to keep reading fresh\/changing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In fiction:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Read using different voices for different characters.<\/p>\n<p>Use\/Make puppets and share the story as a play.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For non fiction:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Read the pages like a news reporter.<\/p>\n<p>Make a poster to show the most interesting facts you learned.<\/p>\n<p>Use the book as a way to discuss tables of contents, glossaries, captions, graphs and charts, photographs, etc. details common in non fiction books.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer! The perfect time to carry around a book and spend time with favorite or new characters and subjects. This is # 6 in my 8-part series on Summer Literacy. Here are a hodge-podge of ideas to keep reading fresh\/changing. In fiction: Read using different voices for different characters. Use\/Make puppets and share the story\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/2017\/07\/09\/literacy-6-mixing-it-up\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,21,22,42],"tags":[43],"class_list":["post-1277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engaging-students","category-family","category-language-arts","category-reading","tag-summer-literacy-ideas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}