Hello!
I am currently teaching 1st grade and I wanted to ask your advice
regarding books to teach Questioning. I have introduced the unit already,
but my kids are having difficulty forming actual questions. I have
brainstormed a list of question words, but I was hoping that you could give
me
Melanie,
I teach first grade too One of the easiest ways to generate questions
is to just say I wonder there is even a children's book by that name that
does an excellent job of modeling that very statement. Do not disregard
the need for continued modeling and then gradual
Scholastic has whole series of nonfiction question and answer books. The
heading is a question and the answer follows. I have found it effective to
use these and then work with other nonfiction. After reading a paragraph
(or page) or two, I ask kids, So, if this were a question and answer book,
To follow up on Lori's replyLinda Hoyt's resource about nonfiction in
the classroom provides specific activities to focus on comprehension. For
example... Linda suggests reading a paragraph at a time, covering the
paragraph,
remember something from the text and then say something/write
Hi Melanie,
I don't use questions words per say but instead I model asking authentic
questions as I'm reading. I often start my questions with the following
phrases: I wonder why or I wonder if or something to that effect. Pretty soon,
the kids start doing the same.
Elisa Waingort
Calgary,
The title of the book is Comprehension Connections
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I am looking for the lesson that was done in detail using the Sara Holbrook
poems. I found the poems but I wanted to read over the actual lesson again.
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Hello Melanie,
Yes, I am another first grade teacher.This is the perfect
opportunity for modeling a think aloud strategy while reading a text.
I find that children really do not understand the difference between a
question and a statement.
I use an activity to teach my students how to
Hello,
What are Debbie Miller's anchor charts/ Where would I locate them? Thanjs!
Pat d.
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Melanie,
I teach first grade too One of the easiest ways to generate questions
is to just say I wonder there is even a children's book by
I know very little about Wilson reading myself. However, when my son was in
the sixth grade and we had moved to a new state, he was offered a Wilson
reading class as part of his IEP. It just happened that he ended up having it
for two periods each day the entire year.
It helped him
Debbie Miller uses what she calls anchor charts throughout each unit of
comprehension (strategies) They anchor kids thinking to the mentor text the
teacher might be doing as a read aloud or as shared reading ...and they also
serve the same purpose for kids during their self-selected
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