The Pizza lesson is a follow up to the salad lesson described in Tanny McGregor's book called Comprehension Directions. What I did to make the pizzas was copy some poems on deep orange copy paper (any poem will do...but I used Ripped My Favorite T-Shirt from the book Take Me Out of the Bathtub, one called Dr. Womback's Needle by Brod Baggert and let the kids choose the one they had the most interest in) I had tan poster paper cut into big circles for the pizza crust and gave the kids yellow sticky notes to record their thinking. I reminded them that real reading required both text and thinking and that as they read each stanza of their poem, they were to cut it out and paste it on the pizza (representing the sauce). Then they wrote their thinking on sticky notes and put them on as cheese. Finally, I asked them to tell what they learned about real reading and write that on little red circles (the pepperoni). The final results were not only cute but I could really see who understood that real reading required thinking and text! Jennifer
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