This chart shows a great way to teach about Nonfiction.
Getting kids to stop, slow, down and think about their thinking will help them understand what they are reading- especially with nonfiction material.
Wednesday, February 5, 2014
Week 18 and Week 19- DRA
It is progress report time, so many of the teachers have been busy doing DRAs on their students. At our staff meeting, we discussed the summary portion of the DRA for levels 28 and 38. 28 is where the students have to begin to write a summary with some sentence frames. Levels 38/40 is where the students have to write the summary without any sentence starters. Our 2nd- 6th grade staff shared strategies that they use to help teach their students summary. One very useful strategy is the five finger retell (that a lot of our primary teachers use too!) . This helps the students remember the parts of the story to summarize.
Another strategy is to use a graphic organizer( see below) as an instructional tool to teach the students how to summarize.
It is progress report time, so many of the teachers have been busy doing DRAs on their students. At our staff meeting, we discussed the summary portion of the DRA for levels 28 and 38. 28 is where the students have to begin to write a summary with some sentence frames. Levels 38/40 is where the students have to write the summary without any sentence starters. Our 2nd- 6th grade staff shared strategies that they use to help teach their students summary. One very useful strategy is the five finger retell (that a lot of our primary teachers use too!) . This helps the students remember the parts of the story to summarize.
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