Jennifer, I love your suggestions about using the mirror for explaining description and the light bulb for cause and effect. I also teach 2nd grade and we have been immersed in text structures for the past 3 weeks. For each structure I've found big books that are have each structure. AS we read and explored more nonfiction texts with a variety of structures my class and I created an anchor chart with our class definition of each structure, key words and symbol. We also created a body movement for each structure. This week students worked in pairs and coded every 2 pages(using our symbols) of a variety of nf books and shared out their findings. Our librarian had the class use the smartboard to highlight key words and then code written examples of each structure. This week each child will make their own referral chart text structures that includes structure, definition, key words, possible topics, symbol and graphic organizer. This chart will then been used to help students move into researching and writing about a topic of their choice.WHEW! I see my class working on this for another 2-3 weeks. I've had lots of help from another 2nd grade teacher and reading teacher from another school in my district along with the reading teacher and librarian in my school. It's an intellectual challenge to find a way to make text structures understandable to 2nd graders. I've really enjoyed the digging and reading that helped me make this all work for my class. So I was thrilled to see your posting because your suggestion last month about using the staircase to make biographies understandable was so helpful. I know you'll have different ways to approach text structures. mary _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org.
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