Student lead discussions allow students to be in control of thier own learning ans focus on questions that they have. Students get to bounce around questions and ideas from the text with thier peers enhancing comprehension and vocabulary. The teacher sets up a model for students to use. Students rotate through different jobs in the discussions.
Example jobs: Vocab Hunter, Recorder & Reporter, Super Summerizer, Creative Cat, and Circle Host
This is an opportunity to wrok wtih small or large groups of students developing specific skills that good readers use.
Example of reading lessons:
-Reading non-fiction & underlining important ideas
-Thinking of questions as you read
-Using sensory images to build comprehension of text
-Decoding juicy words
-Picture Books- -Chapter Books-
-Wordless Books-
Read aloud time offers excellent opportunities to model reading, expose students to diverse genres of text and new authors. Listening to a story as a class builds community through common experience which can be refrred to in other teaching.
Notebooks are used across academic disciplines to record new words. Students enter words, describe the word themselves and depict it fostering a deep understanding of the words entered.
This is a difficult supbjec to teach. Student need to be supported and challenged in just the right balance. In any given grade level, there can be fantastic writers and struggling writers; therefore, students need individualized or small group attention. Peer editing groups and author's circles are ways that students can learn from each other.
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