THIS IS NOT MY LESSON!
I READ THE ARCHIVES ALL DAY. I could not find the source. STAND UP AND BE PROUD. I will give you credit. The mistakes are mine. I found snippets ALL OVER THE PLACE. . LOL Pizza Lesson The original idea is based on the book, Comprehension Connections, by Tanny McGregor's chapter 2 which is about metacognition. She writes about a reading salad being a concrete example of metacognition. It is wonderful. For anyone who has not read her book yet or who has not tried this lesson, please do! I found a bunch of messages on the internet about the "Pizza Lesson" and tried to figure out what people were writing about. I could not find the original source for the "Pizza Lesson" which I write about here. 1. Give kids a tan poster board paper (representing the crust). 2. Copy the text they will read on orange paper (representing sauce). 3. Kids had to cut out the stanzas of the poetry and glue it on the crust with glue sticks. They represent their thinking on sticky notes (representing cheese). [Some teachers did not have the kids cut out the stanzas instead the teacher only wrote the stanza on the sauce.] 4. What did the learn? We learned.[We need schema and thinking for metacognition; reading needs thinking and text; thinking will make you smarter; if you think while you read, you will understand it; you cannot just use some of it like pictures you have to use all of it like pictures and words you know all of it; never fake read; more thinking is better than less thinking] Written on red circles (representing pepperoni). When modeling how to share thinking PINCH CARDS COULD HELP EPR: A teacher suggested the EPR (Every Person Respond) strategy which allows for and ensures that all students actually are engaged in thinking during your lesson. This time the PINCH CARD that had text written on one end and thinking written on the other end. KIDS "pinch" the card at the end that they are indicating. To prepare the PINCH CARD: When I have seen this done, they are color coded so that the teacher can easily SEE the choice the child made. Imagine an index card that the teacher has colored red on one half and left white on the bottom half. Write TEXT in the red section. Write THINKING on the white section. Teacher models thinking for awhile. Teacher stops and asks the children to share what is happening instead their heads. The children SHOW THEIR PINCH CARD indicating 'text' or 'thinking.' Pizza Lesson in Action: One teacher wrote that after she modeled with the salad example from Tanny's book Comprehension Connections, she printed a poem on red paper (sauce). She handed out sticky notes (cheese). She gave out tan circles (Pizza crust). The directions were, "Read the poem, cut out a stanza and indicate what you thought about that stanza." The teacher then passed out red circles (pepperoni). The directions were, "Record what you learned about real reading." _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org 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.
