Oh, I love Allen Say! I once went to a week-long workshop based on just one of his books about the grandfather who came over from Japan to SF. Yes, I blanked on the name, as well. Tara
On Sep 14, 2006, at 6:25 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Well I am so glad to have the list back and running. Thanks to > Ginger and Keith for setting us back up! > I have switched from third grade to fifth this year. I am also > getting my master's (hence my new signature block!), and my oldest > is going through the college application process this fall. > Needless to say, it's going to be a busy year! > > I have started strategy instruction with metacognition. I did the > tray activity that someone posted a long time ago to concretely > show how we have two voices when we read : the reciting voice and > the conversation voice. A student carries a tray with about a dozen > items around the circle of children. The children are asked to > remember what is on the tray as it passes by twice. The student > with the tray goes out of the viewing area of the class. The > children recall what they saw on the tray. Then you ask them to > describe details about the student who carried the tray. > > My students did well with both. That lead me to explain that their > main focus was on the tray and that is like their reciting voice. > It is what they are actually reading. What they noticed about the > student is like their conversation voice; they weren't fully aware > of it, but they were using it to observe. This is like their > conversation voice, the voice that has you talking to the text with > questions, visualizations, emotions, and inferences. I think it > went well and helped them to understand what I mean by that inner > voice. > > Next I modeled my own converstaion voice by reading aloud an Allen > Say book. I am drawing a blank on the title, but it is the story > about a billboard painter. I paused and asked questions, made > predictions, shared visualizations, inferred emotions, etc. They > did a turn and talk about what they observed me doing. > Next I want to have them try some OWL reading. Zaneda posted this > concise use of strategies that I found really successful for > introducing strategies last year in third grade. Students will mark > their own thinking for Observations, Wonders, and Links. > I am reading aloud Ruby Holler. I've never read it and we are > really enjoying it. > > Since I am team teaching now, I will be teaching science along with > language arts. I think I'll try textmapping tomorrow for a chapter > in the science text. > > So that's what is going on in my room. Let's hear from more folks > about how you've begun your year. > Be well! > -- > Maura Sackett 0349106 > MS in Education:Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment > Maplewood, New Jersey > Eastern Time Zone > _______________________________________________ > Mosaic mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http:// > literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. > _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org.
