Have you done anything different with it? Is it working for you? Your SpEd department is using it, too?

I like the idea of someone sitting in an office whose sole job is to keep track of the biggest cheesecake. I wonder if that person at least gets to try samples of the losers. And what’s the person’s job in the office next door?

I have to admit that I’ve “borrowed” your idea for 3-2-1′s, and I recently made a post on my blog about using one of my own. I tell my fellow teachers that I got the idea from a cool blogging California teacher that I know (I’m in TN). The special ed department loves them for helping kids with remedial reading comprehension. I either make them with local news stories or stories of “odd events” and use them as bell-ringers.

The post:
http://innered.edublogs.org/2009/08/15/day-1-teaching-via-cheesecake/

The file:
http://innered.edublogs.org/files/2009/08/Cheesecake-3-2-1.doc

3 Sentences about the chapter you just read
2 Questions – something you didn’t understand, the meaning of a word, etc.
1 Prediction about what you think will happen next

I’ll keep your version in mind for shorter factual articles and chapters in content area textbooks.

PS: Way to spam, Dr. Aranoff. It’s a good way to pretty much turn me off of wanting to read your book.