If it's about building comprehension skills and it's for a video for you to demonstrate my thinking would to be to go for non fiction and a very strong read aloud. I would look at getting a picture book, and yes, perfectly suitable for sixth grade, so that you are giving the ESL students support with the visuals. You can structure the questions or the conversation starters to demonstrate their 'interaction'. Start with text to self and then text to world. The problem with video taping when the kids turn and share is that you get such poor quality sound...so it would be a good idea to be just taking notes listening to some of the discussions so that you can 'use' these later when you do your write up as they won't have been clear. The other thing is you can have all your own post its on the book as you go with your key questions....remember, ask the 'thick' questions yourself and that will really get the kids responding. Good luck
--- On Fri, 28/11/08, ncteach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: ncteach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [MOSAIC] whole class discussion question To: "Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group" <[email protected]> Received: Friday, 28 November, 2008, 12:55 PM Hi All, Forgive me for just jumping in, but I am so stressed at the moment and need your collective wisdom. I am a candidate for National Boards (ELA Early Adolescent). (I teach 6th grade ELA.) I am now working on Entry #2 Whole Class Discussion. I have to send in 15 minutes of a video taped lesson which I will analyze and reflect upon. I spent considerable time creating a lesson on teaching the reading strategy of metacognition using a nonfciton text. The lesson follows STW. I will model using a think aloud, have students doing think, pair, share, and then eventually having them practice with guidance. My instructional goal is for the students to interact with the text as opposed to just decoding the words---to think about their thinking. (They are having a hard time with this. Half of the class is ESL. I also have two students with ADD.) My question/concern is this: Should I use nonfiction? It might be easier to have a whole class discussion about a piece of fiction, however, my students are fairly familiar with fiction. They *really* need help with nonfiction. The text is a short article about child labor in Equador. (They've become very interested in child labor issues.) I'm getting nervous that the nonfiction metcognition lesson might not lend itself to the taping process. Does anyone have any advice? Any and all thoughts would be appreciated. Kim in NC _______________________________________________ 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. Start your day with Yahoo!7 and win a Sony Bravia TV. Enter now http://au.docs.yahoo.com/homepageset/?p1=other&p2=au&p3=tagline _______________________________________________ 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.
