Bonita DeAmicis
Mon, 30 Jul 2007 19:21:01 -0700
> I have experienced the same kind of issue with questions from 8th graders. > Finally it has occurred to me to write these off topic questions down. > Sometimes they are very good. I'll save the questions for a more appropriate > time. I think that some of them might make excellent research topics if > students are really interested, but what seems so important today is not > always important next week. > Jan Thank you, Jan, for jumping in. I have written the questions down when offered up by students, but sometimes it means the topic we are covering is buried in unrelated questions. It is as if one off-base question leads to a multitude-- I am not always convinced it is curiosity driving the questions... maybe it is just the feeling that generating questions is enough? Do you put the unrelated questions on the chart you have prepared for the reading, or do you store them elsewhere--like an open question list? :)Bonita _______________________________________________ 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.