As a follow up to David's email... when he talked about scrolls being a conversation starter, I would also like to add that another conversation that scrolls provide much faster than books is the conversation the student has using his inner voice. Scrolls help to explicitly teach a kids how to listen, monitor, and adjust thinking. My first graders used scrolls for the last two years and they have told me as much....Strugglers confirm my classroom observations as well. In fact, some strugglers do not even come close to metacognition until we start scroll work. I usually begin just with picture walks as well. When the kids get really good at responding to text in written format, scrolls once again are helpful in fostering powerful thinking, book talks, and literature circles. In fact when we do reading cycle centers, scrolls are our link from level to level, from genre to genre, from topic to topic, or from author to author. I can't say enough good things about scrolls and how they reveal story to a reader. David is correct. Scrolls can become tedious in their creation.... but in my opinion, well worth the time and effort. Be sure to laminate them and keep them in your collections in the library. They are as readily used as books and in certain periods during the year most often chosen by my kids themselves. Pam I
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