Amy Sarver
Tue, 17 Jul 2007 17:30:33 -0700
I hope I'm doing this right... Question: How do your students use written as well as other kinds of responses to show their evolving thinking?
Right now I'm teaching summer school (gr 4-6). In one of my reading groups (Fever 1793) I have them writing diary entries for each chapter (from the main character's viewpoint) . One student is really struggling with siphoning out the important information and inferring how the character feels or predicting what the character will do next. I have modeled for her and engaged her in guided practice for almost four weeks. I think I need to do what the teacher in our book did with her second grader...focus instruction on finding stopping places in the text and taking time to think about what she's reading. While we do this during guided reading, she's definitely not doing this on her own. I've also been struggling with how to teach the sticky note strategy. I've never used this strategy before and find it a little contrived to ask students to stop and summarize or jot down a question (this is how teachers at my school do it). I love the idea in the book about using the sticky notes to code the text. It would be a great way to start a discussion in a reading group or book club. favorite quote so far: "reading doesn't arrive fully dressed on a platter. Readers make meaning." p15 _______________________________________________ Stw2chat mailing list Stw2chat@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/stw2chat_literacyworkshop.org. Search the STW2 Chat Archives at http://snipurl.com/stw2archives.