Excited to annouce that several students and teachers have decided to participate in Global Read Aloud again this year!

Global Read Aloud is project established in 2010 with one goal in mind “One Book to Connect the World.” Since then millions of students in over 80 countries have participated. This year at Gurrie we are offering three Global Read Aloud titles and students have the option to read these titles during their independent reading time in their ELA classes, Resource class, library time and independently.  Starting October 4^th and running for 6 weeks students will have opportunities to connect with other Gurrie students, teachers and staff and have culturally enriched discussions about the same books. Through discussions and shared experiences, hopefully we will make the world a little smaller and open our eyes to the rest of the world. How great is it to know that the same book our students are reading is being read in classrooms across the globe.

The titles being read this year are:

The Jumbies by Tracey Baptiste

The Barren Grounds by David Robertson

Elatsoe by Darci Little Badger

Happy Reading and Connecting!

BATTLE of the BOOKS 2022

will be epic :)

All students at Gurrie have the opportunity to participate in the Battle of the Books which begins today and will run through March. Students are asked to form 4-6 member teams and read 16 titles among the team. Each team will compete in a Gurrie Battle in mid-February. The top 2 teams will move on to and represent Gurrie in the "BIG" Battle again Park, Pleasantdale, Highlands and McClure.

Battle Updates will be updated on this page, so check back in. 

Click on the picture above to preview this year's titles:)

Click here to sign up to participate in the BATTLE.

We are fortunate to virtually host Padma Venkatraman on October 19th at 1:00pm. 

Padma will be joining us via Zoom and discussing her new book Born Behind Bars. Several Gurrie students are reading The Bridge Home which is the companion novel to Born Behind Bars.

Padma Venkatraman is the author of BORN BEHIND BARS (Nancy Paulsen Books, Penguin Random House) THE BRIDGE HOME, A TIME TO DANCE, ISLAND’S END and CLIMBING THE STAIRS; and the winner of a WNDB Walter Dean Myers Award, Golden Kite Award, Crystal Kite Award, Nerdy Book Award, two South Asia Book Awards and more. Her novels have been shortlisted for over 20 state awards, received over 20 starred reviews, appeared on numerous best book lists, including the ALA Notable, NYPL Best Book, Kirkus Best Book, Booklist editor's Choice and JLG. Her poetry has been published in Poetry magazine. Before becoming an American author, Dr. Venkatraman spent time under the ocean and in rainforests, served as chief scientist on oceanographic research vessels where she was the only BIPOC female, and also worked as a teacher and diversity director. Visit her at www.padmavenkatraman.com and follow her on twitter (@padmatv); (@venkatraman.padma) on fb and ig.

Students will have the option to purchase a signed copy of the text.

ORDER a copy of Born Behind Bars by clicking here. Each copy purchased will recieve a signed name plate from Padma. 

Keep Our Students Reading

Online Reading Resources

Check out this amazing   

E-Learning Resources document: Click HERE

Streaming Options that won't warp your brain:)

Click Here

Capstone Interactive Library

www.mycapstonelibrary.com

Username: linkbird

Password: lovetoread

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Epic

https://www.getepic.com/students

Then students will click on AYG8271 Class.

Then students will select AYG8271 Guest avatar.

Then students will be able to explore the Epic e-book library.

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Just Books Read Aloud

https://justbooksreadaloud.com

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