Love using The Adventures of Connie and Diego. Don't show the illustrations. Predict from title first, write predictions on board identified with children's initials. Predict again after stories' beginning. Read story visualizing by having children draw their own pictures as you move along. At the end discuss the lesson or theme. Then reveal illustrations. Return to original predictions and discuss children's schema....have each child talk about the basis of his/her prediction. (You kept track by writing initials). Discuss "lesson" or theme of the story further. Why do they think the children were illustrated as they were?
It's a great book from Children's Book Press...bilingual Spanish. Two children are born "different" from others in their village. They travel the world trying to find out where they belong. They meet different animals along the way who tell them they aren't eagles etc. Finally across the ocean the tiger tells them they need to return home. They do and find that things haven't changed a lot BUT THEY HAVE. Very powerful. The children have been pictured with stripes and checkerboards etc. very vividly, colorfully. We used this in a summer project with teachers of American Indian children and with children in summer school at a New Mexico Pueblo school. K -3 children. The children had rich and interesting predictions. Some predictions came from the possible ethnicities represented byt he names. Kids clearly had schema about the word "adventure." Also had ideas about what it meant to be "different" before they saw the pictures. Idea for this came from a brilliant colleague who got the idea from another brilliant teacher. And so it goes.... sally On 9/29/07 6:33 PM, "B G" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone have titles of good picture books to teach predicting and > confirming or changing predictions for primary grades (grade 2) I do know > that almost any story can be used for this but I was looking in particular for > short books in which some predictions would not turn out as expected-that is, > I don't want everything to be so predictable. Thanks in advance. > > --------------------------------- > Got a little couch potato? > Check out fun summer activities for kids. > _______________________________________________ > 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. > _______________________________________________ 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.
