Mary I love your quote too! I love the question anchor charts I am so going to use this idea this Fall with my students. I can so see my students using these charts. I love it love it!!
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 12:30 PM, gina nunley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mary I loved your quote > > I'm reminded of the Vygotsky quote that I hang above my desk each year, > "Children grow into the intellectual life around them." > > Another note on levels of questioning or QAR....that is the only real > strategy a colleague hammers all year and she gets 100 percent on the dang > test every year, so it is well worth incorporating....well actually > questioning is a strategy...QAR takes you deep. > > We begin the year by reading together and creating questions, every single > day, and then answering them together, and noticing what kinds of questions > require different kinds of thinking and strategies for answers. They are > posted on three charts > > Level 1: Right there in the text > Level 2: Collected several text clues and went to my own head to put them > together (inference, summary, cause and effect, etc) > Level 3: Me and my own ideas and opinions...not ever a right or wrong. > > > and remain there all year as an anchor chart. Then we move into Lit. > circles and discussion directors know to focus on Level 2 and Level 3. > Though there are significant Level 1 questions. Just because the answer is > right in the book doesn't mean it does offer something meaty to chew on as a > group. > > I am willing to incorporate ideas that will help the kids, because failing > that test is absolutely demoralizing. For their sake I will do what I can > to make them test "passers" but I will never abandon my inner compass. We > will continue to be strategic life long readers.... test strategies is a > tiny dot on that screen. > _________________________________________________________________ > Earn cashback on your purchases with Live Search - the search that pays you > back! > > http://search.live.com/cashback/?&pkw=form=MIJAAF/publ=HMTGL/crea=earncashback > _______________________________________________ > 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.
