Week 5


This week our 1st, 2nd, and 3rd graders are working on Read to Someone.  Teachers spent time charting what the students responsibilities were and what the teacher would be doing during this time.  Check out the chart below to see how our third grade teachers introduces it! 

 

 

 

 

In our upper grade classes, they are focusing on Comprehension.  I observed two 5th grade class where the teachers were modeling their questioning strategies while they read.  In one class the teacher was reading Henry's Freedom Box and in the other class the teacher was reading Hurricane.  Both stories lend themselves for great modeling of questioning strategies.  After the teacher modeled her thinking, she then had students turn to a partner and share the questions that they came up with while they read.  Right now both teachers were just modeling the questions they had.  The next steps will be to share the different types of questions readers ask and the different types of ways these questions can be answered.