Global Read Aloud 2015!

This year, the whole second grade participated in a Global Read Aloud! For those who are unsure what that means, it means that we read a chapter book together as a class. The book we read was The Year of Billy Miller By Kevin Henkes. We have been reading this book as a class for the last 6 weeks. As we read through various chapter each week, we connected with other classes all around the globe that were reading the SAME book!

We were able to connect with a third grade class in Indiana and a 2nd grade class in California and discuss our thoughts, opinions, and ideas about the book. With the class in California, we would post questions using Edmoto and read each other's responses. We were also able to post survey's to see what everyone thought as a whole.

Every Friday, we would skype with the class in Indiana. It started off as a mystery skype, where we tried to figure out WHERE the class was by using clues they gave us.

 

Then each Friday until we finished the book, we would meet for a Skype session to talk about what we thought about our chapters for that week, and share our predictions of what we thought would happen next. This kids loved finding out information about another class, and asking them questions about the book. It was an awesome experience and I know the kids, as much as myself, enjoyed participating in the Global Read Aloud of 2015!

As your students what they thought about the book, and why the main character was convinced, "It is the year of Billy Miller"!