Literacy Student Gifts

POETRY READING FROM HELL: '1001 Recovering and Healing Haikus.'

'My penmanship has really improved since I got a laser printer.'

'I'm reading aloud, Jeremy - My lips are SUPPOSED to be moving!'

Mr. Metamorphosis: "At least this better than waking up as a cockroach."

Accelerated reading. Slowpoke reading,

'Assuming their porridge was poured at the same time, how could it then be too hot, too cold and just right?'

William Shakespeare sitting at a desk

"I give up. Where's the power button?"

"No, I really thought each sentence ended with an emoji!"

"‘Extra vile old ox’? No, sir – it stands for ‘extra virgin olive oil.’"

It's Dostoevsky. It's Melville. It's Flaubert. But it doesn't dance.

'So Captain Ahab, I put it to you that you were deliberately stalking my client!'

'This has all the makings of a fable. But first lets take lots of tests.'

The ghosts of Christmas yet to come.

"It's a play on words."

"When I ask questions, I expect answers!"

It's a radical new development, a text novel for the text generation

"Oh, this old thing?"

The Witches Discover The Wok

"It's basically the 'Tragedy of King Lear' but with animated penguins."

Extreme Sisyphus

"Gifted class, indeed! One is gifted in science, but can't rad - one is fixed in reading, but won't even try math..."

After the Sentence

"My only love sprung from my only hate!"

'What does it say, Dad?'

"You can use the alphabet to text. You can use the alphabet to tweet. Why can't you use the alphabet to spell?"

Lend me your ears

Alice in Wonderland-Hare and Hatter putting Dormouse in Teapot

"Because he's illiterate. That's why I have to read to him all the time."

"Barb's such a fast reader."

"How do I love thee….? Let me count the ways…" "I'm going to want a recount."

Alice in Wonderland - six impossible things before breakfast

Tower Hamlets

Of Mice and Men.

William Shakespeare