Bonita Every Pupil Response (EPR)?is some way to check for ALL student's thinking. In this case, they can be pinch cards with thinking and text and the children just hold up the card with their finger pointing to what they believe the correct answer is...EPR could also be thumbs up and thumbs down....individual white boards etc etc.
In the lesson I saw, the teacher modeled a while and then asked the kids to volunteer to share thinking. Many times the kids just parroted the words from the text. We weren't sure if the kids were really just at the literal level or if the teacher had not made it really clear which was which! Pinch cards would help, we thought, check to see if the kids really knew the difference before we let them try themselves. Our data collection was based on what the teacher asked us to look for. One of us (me) scripted the responses of the weakest children in the class. The other teacher scripted the top kids (enrichment) so we could see how both ends of the spectrum were responding. The first graders had also, at the end of the lesson, written on a post it about what they had learned about real reading and it was neat to see what they had written! Any ideas on data collection tools for next time? I teach the lesson Wednesday and am thinking about what to ask my colleagues to look for! Jennifer Thanks for sharing your lesson study with us! I would love to see more of this online:) What do you mean by you decided to "use an every pupil response?" And what made you believe the students might not be able to tell the difference between the text and the teacher's thoughts? (How did you go about collecting data as the observing teachers? A list of student behaviors that you checked for? or something else?) Thanks! Bonita California Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. ________________________________________________________________________ Email and AIM finally together. You've gotta check out free AOL Mail! - http://mail.aol.com _______________________________________________ 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.
