Thursday, August 2, 2012

Interactive Cell Phone Novels

Now that you have finished your cell phone novel:

  1. Read the other cell phone novels posted on the blog.
  2. Post a comment about the story.
  3. Post a change you would make to the story.
  4. Go to your cell phone novel and post a reply to the comments made by your classmates.

More Practice with Pronouns

Subject Pronouns

Object Pronouns

Pronouns: Online Exercises

Personal Pronouns Exercise 1

Personal Pronouns Exercise 2

Personal Pronouns Exercise 3

Pick a pronoun


Check your email and download the Pick a Pronoun PPT.
See if you pick the correct pronoun.

Pronouns

Let's see what you know about pronouns.
Look at the Pronoun chart.
Substitute the following nouns with the correct pronoun.


  1. Miguel                ______________
  2. The dog              ______________
  3. Henry and Susie  ______________
  4. Pedro and you    ______________
  5. Anita                  ______________
  6. Mary and I         ______________
  7. (your name)        ______________

Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Your Cell Phone Novel

After reading the story Write a Best Seller...   on Your Cell Phone? on pages 28 and 29, begin your cell phone novel.
Use the characteristics of the cell phone novel (page 29) to create your text.
Your novel should be at least 15 sentences long.

Read This

Click on the link. Read the article and answer the questions using complete sentences.
Cell Novels


  1. How long have cell phone novels been around?
  2. What things do cell phones do?
  3. What were these novels originally about?
  4. Why are these types of novels interactive?
  5. Where was this genre born?
  6. Who were mostly the authors of these novels?