I want to thank everyone again for all of the suggestions I was given about integrating quality strategies instruction into my short lessons. I have been implementing many of your suggestions for about a week and a half now (since the students have returned from winter break)?My lessons have been going so well! I talked to one of the teachers that I work with and asked if I could keep the same group for a few days in a row instead of switching to a new group everyday. She agreed, so now I don?t feel so rushed to get through the books she wants me to work on with her students in such a short block of time. So far we have been working on questioning. The kids love it. We talked about how all good readers ask themselves questions to help them to better understand what they are reading. As we went through the book, we wrote down a list of all the questions we had and the pages they came from. At the end of the book we looked at all of the questions and decided if they were answered and where the answer came from(later in the book, someone else knew the answer, ect). We still need to talk about how asking all of these questions are helping us as readers and then start weeding out the types of questions that don?t really help. I am very impressed with what we have done so far and the questions my students have been coming up with. I am looking forward to working more with questioning and other strategies. Since the students are getting better at their questions I think that next week I will give them post it notes to keep track of their own questions. Does anyone have any other suggestions for scaffolding this strategy?
With my younger students, I have started using many of the sorts from Words Their Way. This has been going very well also. There are so many different kinds of sorts to do that the students are continually engaged and don?t lose interest. I also love that the sorts can be adapted to fit the level of each student. I work with some students with picture cards and have them sort by initial sound, final sound or short vowel sound. If anyone had done any sorts with students that work well I would love to hear about these too! Thanks again for all of your help so far! _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive.
