by making movies that tell about the character and setting. This was a great learning point. The signs were simple and made sense with the worlds so the kids were a lot more animated. I realized after a few of these reading lessons using PT that I was skipping over the active engagement "try it" section. After having them sign and teach each other the teaching point, I modeled how I make mental movies. Then I read a section of our read aloud and had them tell their partner their mental movie.
There are two ways to that readers build the world of the story. The first is to pay attention to descriptive words and the second is to imagine the moment in your where mind, thinking "where the characters are and what they are doing". This was my teaching point yesterday. Today, I will be conferring with readers to see if they are using this strategy and I to make sure they are in a just right book. I noticed as I looked out over my readers yesterday while I was doing running records, that some of them have switched to books 3 or 4 levels higher.
In fact, today's learning point is going to be about making sure we are in a just right book. I usually teach this the second or third day of the Reader's Workshop but I thought that by fifth grade, most of them would know how to do that work...apparently not.
Time to head to school! I'm coming down with a cold my little darlings have bestowed on me so this will be a long day.
No comments:
Post a Comment