readingBytes

In the midst of the TAKS frenzy, the read180 students found some time to host a spring special edition of our podcast with special guests from Ms. Martinez’s fun science lab, reading to us about a few characters in the animal kingdom. It’s just under 10 minutes, and it’s good, we promise. We hope you’ll listen in and enjoy!

Feel free to leave your comment and let us know what you think about the giraffe, rhino or mosquito! Press PLAY below to start the show.

To learn more about Giraffes, visit GIRAFFES:CREATURE FEATURE!

To learn more about how to help the Rhino, please visit A Fight for Survival

To learn more about protecting yourself against mosquitoes, visit The Buzz about Mosquitoes

It’s been cold in the rio grande valley and we read180ites have been trying to keep ourselves warm while, frantically, getting ready for the upcoming infamous TAKS test, which will be here in two weeks!

In the midst of all the tutoring and taks practice, a few of us managed to get together and take some time to record our winter podcast. We hope you’ll listen and enjoy!

hosts: carlos and aylin

1st reader: willy - the great dino debate

2nd reader: berenice - tracing trash

3rd reader: alma - mystery of the mummies

readingBytes, the podcast of the read180 lab at Alvarez Elementary was featured on the Read180 national community newsletter for January 2007! Congratulations to the super readers, show hosts and podcasters. Stay tuned for our Winter podcast coming up next week!

This December month was short and hectic with tests, activities and programs that our fifth grade students were busy with. Unfortunately, this kept us from completing our Christmas/December podcast.

Please stay tuned, however, for our Winter/January podcast coming up after our long break.

The students of the Read180 lab at Alvarez Elementary would like to wish all of you a very merry Christmas and a blessed New Year!

Our November edition has been late in coming. We apologize. Our students have been busy testing and staying after school for tutoring and even coming in on Saturday mornings! In the midst of it all, they’ve found some time to sit and record the second podcast of readingBytes. Hope you enjoy! Stay tuned for our Christmas Edition!

The first edition of readingBytes - the podcast of the Read180 lab at Alvarez Elementary is here!

You can listen to it here on this website, subscribe to the podcast or download it to listen to it later on your computer or iPod. Thank you for visiting and we hope you enjoy the podcast!

If you’re wondering what a podcast is, colorin colorado has some great podcasts of Latino leaders, writers and readers.

You can listen to Alma Flor Ada, Francisco Alarcon and Pat Mora read from their books.

You can also do a search on iTunes for the Reading Rockets podcast.

Stay tuned also for ReadingBytes, the podcast of the Read180 lab featuring our very own successful readers.

CURRENT WORKSHOP :: IMMIGRANT’S JOURNEY

We finally completed the wildfires theme that focused on the objectives of main idea and details and prefixes/suffixes.

On to the immigration workshop, where we’ll be reading several stories of immigrants making their journey to America!