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Red Clover PowerPoint Game

Here is this year's Red Clover PowerPoint Game which I use in class to review all 10 books before kids vote.  The questions reflect the discussions I had with my classes about each book, but you can easily change them to reflect the focus in your own classes. 

The second slide has all ten covers; click on any one to link to that book's questions, click for the questions in progressive order, then click the lefthand arrow at the bottom of the page to return to the second slide and choose another.  The arrow at the bottom right of the pages will take you to the final slide, so save that for LAST.  I let the 3/4s choose books as we go and a student (or 2 if competing with teams) keeps the score on a Red Clover ballot so I know when we have finished all 10 books.  With the K-2s, I might just go thru all 10 books in order (just clicking, NOT on the covers), just to keep the focus moving along...

Feel free to try it out and edit it to your own taste.  Kids at my school look forward the it at the end of the unit each year.

Red Clover challenge 2009.ppt

Sue Irish

Suzanne.Irish (at) CESU.K12.VT.US

Red Clover Speed Dating

I do a little "speed dating" with all ten Red Clover books. We discuss all the ways we can look at a book to determine whether we're interested in reading them or not. Then I set the students up into small groups and give them 3 minutes to look over each book. Each group needs to agree on the number of stars to assign each book, we usually do a 5 star rating scheme. Then we tally up the stars for the whole class, and possibly even figure out the average number of stars each book won (math skills!).

Once we've read the books, it's fun to go back and see if their opinions have changed.

Here's a word document I use for each group to record their stars: red clover speed dating.doc

Pam Burke pam (at) marlboro.edu

Red Clover Ballot

With the younger students, I like to use a simple paper ballot for them to mark their choices on.

Here's my ballot for 2009.red clover ballot 2009.pdf

 Pam Burke

Word Searches

I posted some word searched & cross word puzzles I create for DCF & Red Clover books on my blog here: http://lib.surruralist.net/2008/08/11/games-for-idle-hands/

Pam Burke

Voting Tip

This year I'm using www.surveymonkey.com to collect votes for my DCF books - what a time saver! I recommend it. Creating a ballot takes just a minute and is free.

 Pam Burke