Katy’s Comments (group member since Aug 04, 2010)

Katy’s comments from the Reading with Style group.

15.8 Scrabble

Dear Mrs. Bird by A.J. Pearce

Tile: B1 - bird in title
Letter points: 4

+15 Task

Task total: 15

Season Total: 340

15.7 Scrabble

What the Fact?: Finding the Truth in All the Noise by Seema Yasmin
1190 lexile

Tile: Y1 - author last name starts with Y
Letter points: 4

+15 Task

Task total: 15

Season Total: 325

15.6 Scrabble

Good Arguments: How Debate Teaches Us to Listen and Be Heard by Bo Seo

Tile: 06 - letter sequence OO in title word ("good")
Letter points: 1

+15 Task

Task total: 15

Season Total: 310

15.5 Scrabble

Big Words for Young Readers: Teaching Kids in Grades K to 5 to Decode—and Understand—Words With Multiple Syllables and Morphemes by Heidi Anne Mesmer

Tile: T6 - author name has no T
Letter points: 1

+15 Task

Task total: 15

Season Total: 295

15.4 Scrabble

Teaching Words and How They Work: Small Changes for Big Vocabulary Results by Elfrieda H. Hiebert

Tile: K1 - Title word ends in K ("work")
Letter points: 5

+15 Task

Task total: 15

Season Total: 280

20.1 Back to School

Holly by Stephen King

+20 task (according to GR bio, King has been a teacher)

+10 combo (10.6 - page 234 - "dark circles under his eyes that suggest to Holly either insomnia or an iron deficiency")
+5 series
+5 multiple

Task Total: 40

Season Total: 260

20.1 Back to School

One Perfect Couple by Ruth Ware

+20 task (according to her GR bio, Ware has been a teacher of English as a foreign language)

+5 combo (10.6 - page 9 - "his habit of convincing himself that every rainbow ended in a pot of gold just for him")
+10 Young (born 1977)

Task Total: 35

Season Total: 220

10.7 Helicopter Season

Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty

+10 task (word - here can be made from HElicoptERs)

+15 combo (10.6 - Ch 1 "It is the soft silver of an expensive kitten"; 20.3 - Li, Ne, Mo, Y; 20.5 - supernatural element of psychic powers)

Task Total: 25

Season Total: 185

10.2 Gothic Fiction

Dracula by Bram Stoker

+10 task (#8 on the list)
+25 combo (10.5 - pub 1897; 10.6 - Ch 2 "He held in his hand an antique silver lamp"; 20.3 - Br, Am, Er, S; 20.5 - supernatural element; 20.6 - #33 on list)

Task Total: 35

Season Total: 160

15.3 Scrabble

Everyone Here Is Lying by Shari Lapena

Tile: L1 - author's name starts with L
Letter points: 1

+15 Task

Task Total: 15
Season Total: 120

15.2 Scrabble

Interesting Facts about Space by Emily R. Austin

Tile: A4 - letter sequence ACE in title word (space)
Letter points: 1

+15 Task

Task Total: 15
Season Total: 105

15.1 Scrabble

The Comfort of Ghosts by Jacqueline Winspear

Tile: W1 - WWII genre
Letter points: 4

+15 Task

Task Total: 15
Season Total: 90

10.10 Group Reads

The Night Swim by Megan Goldin

+10 task
+5 combo (10.6 - 118: "Greg held up one of his gold medals.")

Task Total: 15
Season Total: 75

10.9 Keep It Short

First-Year Orientation edited by Lauren Gibaldi
Lexile 760

+10 task
+5 combo (10.6 - "silver Peace dollars are like 30 dollars a pop on eBay" page 2)

Task Total: 15
Season Total: 60

10.6 Elementary My Dear Reader

Like Mother, Like Daughter by Kimberly McCreight

+10 task ("with enough effort, he could strike gold" - p. 199 )
+5 combo (20.3 - K, Mb, Er, Cr)
+5 multiple

Task Total: 20
Season Total: 45

10.6 Elementary My Dear Reader

Finlay Donovan Rolls the Dice by Elle Cosimano

+10 task ("Vero slammed her hand down on the silver bell atop the concierge's desk" ch. 3)
+5 series (#4 in the Finlay Donovan series)

Task Total: 15
Season Total: 25

10.1 Exception to the Rule

No More "Look Up the List" Vocabulary Instruction by Ellin Oliver Keene

+10 task (112 pages)

Task Total: 10
Season Total: 10

Will Bo Seo qualify for the "Young" style (or the "Young" scrabble tile)? His birthdate isn't listed anywhere but in his book he describes being in 5th grade in 2005 and he won a high school debating championship in 2013 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_Seo

15.3 Olympic Scavenger Round 2

The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson

Option B, football - “Football highlights were playing on the TV mounted above the bottles, and I pretended to be interested.”

+15 task

Post Total: 15

Season Total: 455

15.2 Olympic Scavenger Round 2

A Talent for Murder by Peter Swanson

Option B, diving - "It's a dive called the Bullpen." pg. 169

+15 task

Post Total: 15

Season Total: 440