"A list for improving literacy with focus on middle grades." <[email protected]> on Thursday, January 04, 2007 at 1:20 PM -0500 wrote: >You can do this process with things besides quotes too. For example, you >could give a list of terms, names, etc. from whatever you are studying and >ask students to group them in categories, then put a name to the category. >I've seen this activity called "Sort and Select" in an ASCD book of >strategies. Hi!
Thanks, Bonnie. I was wondering about that technique, actually, as my advisor group this morning began work on one of Brenda Dyck's telecollaborative projects, "Excuse Busters." They generated as many genuine (they had to have used them or heard them used) excuses as they could think of, then grouped them into categories, then named the categories. (The next steps in the project are to look at root causes of the excuses within and across categories, thinking of ways to avoid having to give an excuse, and then figuring out how to share our thoughts with other schools through electronic means). I also found a "solve the bank robbery" activity in the NMSA Advisory Handbook which looks like good practice at inductive thought. Other ideas out there? Take care, Bill Ivey Stoneleigh-Burnham School _______________________________________________ The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org. Search the LIT archives at http://snipurl.com/LITArchive
