Ginger, What great lessons. I also teach second grade and am working
on inferring. Could you share what text you used for your groups and
possibly point out some of the places the students needed to infer?
Thank you.
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I am so excited! Last week I gave
I keep a running list of things students can do when they finish their
reading early. Here are a few of them.
1. Create an illustration of one of the scenes in the book. You may use
drawings, words or a collage to recreate the scene.
2. If you were a reporter, what questions would you li
It comes from one of Cris Tovani's books. I think it is I Read It But I
don't Get It. Basically she talks about looking at a house from two
perspectives. One being that of the robber who is canvassing the house as a
possible
robbery target. All the details that a robber would be interest
I am inclined to agree with Lori. Too many people want to hang on to the
old. I must also say that age or years of teaching have very little to do with
hanging on to the old. I have been teaching as long if not longer (33 years)
than most anyone in my building yet I am constantly looking fo
I can't wait to try this. What books do you recommend?
Pat K
"to be nobody but yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night
and day, to make you like everybody else -- means to fight the hardest
battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting."
e.e. cummings
On Jan 31
In my classes MS grades 6-8 it is the behaviors.
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> Okay, this is a question posed by an administrator to me the other day,
and I'd like y
Could you explain more about the chart you use?
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What great stuff! Thanks for sharing! ;-)
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Ginger, What great lessons. I also teach second grade and am working
on inferring. Could you share what text you used for your groups and
possibly point out some of the places the students needed to infer?
T
She leaves the phone booth.
This is where she lives.
She is invisible as she pushes
her rusty shopping cart
down the crowded,
noisy street.
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Hi, do we know where these wonderful stories come from? Hope you can
help. Claudia
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HI can someone out there in cyberspace tell me where to get the
stories/poems referred to here. My writing class loved "The Phone Call"
and want more...I'll keep the ball rolling with them that spurred so
much emotion and feeling as well as a great character study... Please
help if you can. M
A member said they were written by Philip Levine. I did a google search and
found the poem. It is from a book called A Walk with Tom Jefferson. The
background information on the audio of the poem told by Garrison Keillor gives
a
little insight into the poet also.
Marsha
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You can subscribe to Writer's Almanac (just google) and they send a poem every
day. Also, Poetry 180 is a terrific source for
poetry that gets the juices flowing.
Lori
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I know that my trip to Denver, which always includes a visit to the Tattered
Cover, is going to have me searching for some
volumes by Levine. I loved these poems and all I have seen by him!!
Lori
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What a terrific program!
Thanks for sharing.
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I really don't think it matters what exact book you hand your students to do
the inferring work as long as there is some meat to the books. I just
honestly stand in the stacks at our public library and look at the spines of
the picture books until I see three copies and then I pull one out and
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Rosie,
ASk your literacy coach how they can call it the reading lock when no one is
reading
Sue
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One of my mentees has a very difficult kindergarten class, one that would test
the best and she is one of the best. She has been
struggling to involve her students in questioning and is about to go nuts. I
told her I would put out a kindergarten 'all call' on
for ideas on how to teach questi
Here are my questions:
What does the operator think of the woman trying to place all these phone
calls?
Does the woman feel a sense of guilt abandoning her literal brother
-- or is it "brother" in the figurative or political sense.
Does placing the line "this is where her brothe
Tracy,
I just wrote a nice explanation of what I did, attachments and all. some
how I managed to delete it before I could send. Let me gather my thoughts
and I will resend.
Marti
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Ginger,
I appreciate all your posts. I use your formula for inferring with my first
graders. Last week we read "The Little Red Hen" by Byron Barton in our
anthology. As I was reading it, I asked my children to pay attention to the
chicks(children of the hen) in the pictures. Then I when I g
Hope this helps.
Schedules for Self -Selected-Reading
1st---I conference with 4 kids daily. This chart is posted
2nd ---the kids do a quick pair share (not my invention) I made a
Monday-Friday chart and I paired the kids up so that th
Just a ghost from the past... but in reading all of your posts and trying to
implement the best of the best in my own practice I can't help but think that
responding to text has got to be more than a written response. ...
especially in primary. Turn and talk is good but it takes quite a bit o
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