Grade Level: 4th (GLCs: Click here for grade level guidelines.) I wonder if teachers that require students to read books ever have 88% of their students read the entire book, and half of them read it multiple times.Volunteers needed in June! Click here to sign up. We started with the one copy I purchased, and we ended up with seven floating around the classroom. Angleberger, four weeks after the book was introduced to the class, 21 out of 24 students had read “The Strange Case of Origami Yoda”. Angleberger I really started to realize how technology isn’t killing the novel, but when used correctly opening up doors to the novel that may have been closed to many readers before.īy the time we Skyped with Mr. All in all I about 75% of my students sent me pictures of Yoda on spring break.īetween emailing, Tweeting, and Skyping with Mr. Over break I was flooded with pictures of Origami Yoda visiting various places throughout the world from our local library to the Coliseum in Rome. The class left for spring break with their Yodas actually looking forward to coming back to school, so that they could Skype with their new favorite author. The smile on his face when he was showered with compliments was magical. Angelberger will tell us how he comes up with topics?” Having recess talk move from video games to author’s craft was crazy awesome.Ī week before spring break (two weeks before our Skype visit) a reluctant reader in my class decided to take home a copy of the book and make the entire class of 25 their very own origami Yoda. Angelberger about how he came up with Dwight,” or, “Do you think Mr. I could hear them talking at recess, “I can’t wait to ask Mr. Anglebeger took the reading of this book to a whole new level. Knowing that we would be Skyping with Mr.
Angleberger to let him know the hit he had become and he very kindly agreed to Skype with my class. Within a week 12 students had flown through our 3 copies. The book took off like a wild fire in my classroom. That image always pops into my head when a student starts talking about Dwight. Visualizing him digging holes in his front yard, sitting in them, and then filling them back in, is an example of an author using characters actions to describe a character, that I will always turn to when teaching fictional writing. Dwight has got to be the funniest character I have met in a long time. I bought the book and after a long night of conferences I sat down and read the whole thing in a night. These kids have grown up watching the movies with their fathers and playing Lego: Star War video games. The love for Star Wars in fourth grade is as big now as it probably was back when the movies orignally came out. At our spring book fair I casually picked up a book that caught my eye: “The Strange Case of Origami Yoda” by Tom Angleberger.
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