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Tips for Teachers & Librarians:
- Have your students show you drafts of their posts before submitting them.
- Encourage students to speak in their own voice & keep comments brief – no book reviews or reports.
- Comments should express a strong opinion or unique thought.
- Suggest students use a pseudonym. This will give them some privacy while also identifying multiple comments as their own, helping them develop their voice for an audience.
- Have students come back and read subsequent comments on books they’ve commented on. Encourage them to engage each other in a dialogue through the comments. Respectful disagreement is welcome.
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16 Comments Add your own
i love this book
Kyana, if you tell me which book it is that you love, I will post your comment there. It would be lovely if you could tell us a little bit about why you love it, too! — Kate Davie
The Running Dream so far is my favorite!! I’m up to part 2 now. I could not put the book down. It also made me cry so hard, because I felt really bad for the charactor that lost her leg.
I want to have my class of 5th graders blog about their reading. However, our students do NOT have email access at school. Is an email address required?
No. It’s nice if readers create a screen name that they stick with, to help conversations to develop. But they should be able to post without an address. If you have any problems, please let me know! — Kate Davie
This book was awesome I loved it. It had so much action. It was almost like something that would happen in real life.
Fuzzy, if you let me know which book you wanted to post this on, I will move it there! — Kate Davie
Homeschooling parent comment here to the administrator (Kate Davie?)
My kids really enjoy reading DCF books and love the ability to post comments on this blog. But, we are all really confused as to your guidelines for approval to post. It seems very arbitrary and many of the posts that they have made are not included. If there are other criteria that you have not mentioned above – would you please include them in your approval guidlelines listed above.
I am now encouraging them to write thier posts in MS Word, spell check them and then show them to me or their libratian (who is hosting a DCF book group). But, I need you to be a little more clear in your end. Please feel free to email me with further information.
I do appreciate you hosting such a forum – I just need you to make it a little less frustrating for students to use. Thank you.
I started the book The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester. It’s a really good book and I recommend it.
I’ve never read a D.C.F book before and based on these comments I think I should start reading one. Because they all sound really cool.
I completely agree! Take the plunge, and then let us know what you think. — Kate Davie
What is this book exactly about? It seems interesting and creative.
Hmmm, which book exactly? — Kate Davie
I liked the book Smile because it was very funny. When her teeth fall out I laughed so hard.
I don’t see an “Anonymous” button. I did seem to be able to leave a comment with a pseudonym, which will work with students.
How do you use the email address should a student leave one?
We encourage readers to use pseudonyms on the blog, so that they can establish identities that make the interactions more fun. (For instance, I know that, although our literary tastes don’t necessarily align, I will probably be entertained by a post from “Mirka,” even though I have no idea who she is offline.) The e-mail addresses are not necessary. The only time I have ever used any addresses that were posted were when I tried to contact a commenter about a comment that I could not approve for some reason. And that was last year, I mostly just edit a little more ruthlessly now. — Kate Davie
Just checking the home page –
The titles are listed in alphabetical order by author but on the side bar by title.
Wouldn’t it be better if this were consistent?
Well, the two different arrangements are partially due to the way that the blog software handles posts. But I was also thinking that it was a good idea to give readers two different ways to access the list — by author, in case they had the print version of the list in hand, and by title, in case that’s all they could remember. But none of this is written in stone . . .
– Kate Davie
This book is full of drama, and comedy. From Rania loosing her teeth, and going to 7th grade, and the dance, and boys.
Love this book! Great setting, plot, characters, problems and solution! I like Caitlin and Michael, Caitlin’s Dad and Mrs. Brook.
This book is very funny. I love it .I like Tommy and all those cooky stories.
I want to read this book because the comments on the blog like the book. So it sounds like a good so thats why I want to read the book Smile.
I would like to read this book because it seams like some thing i would like to read in the near furture
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