My kids are having a great time visualizing with music and along with my read-aloud of Charlotte's Web. We've all seen the play together on the field trip and have started the cartoon movie. Some of them have seen the live action movie as well. We've even read another story about a farm recently so we have lots of schema to build on.
At our school's reading night a couple of weeks ago, the reading coach and I did a parent workshop on comprehension strategies. To explain inferring, I modified Tanny's "trash theif" lesson. "My neighbors were really noisy this past weekend! I couldn't even concentrate while reading my book. I was nosy and tried to figure out what they were doing but their fence is high and I couldn't see over it. Luckily for me, today is TRASH DAY!! On my way to school, I noticed this bag. Will you help me figure out what they were doing? Let's look at these clues. Here's a soda wrapper (from a 2 L bottle). Here's part of a pizza box (Little Ceasar's proof of purchase). What were they doing? (Allow time for response.) Interesting...maybe that was it....Let's look at some more clues. A fake mustache? A broken pair of spooky glasses? A little pumpkin?" By this point everyone could guess they were having a Halloween party. It worked out great too because we did it about one week before Halloween and I gathered all of the items at my own family's Halloween party! Kathleen Nartker Second Grade Teacher Tampa, Florida _______________________________________________ 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.
