Critical assignment 1
- 1. CRITICAL ASSIGNMENT 1 HEATHER LUNDSTROM BDA FLIP CHART SPRING 2018
- 2. “Books are a uniquely portable magic.” -Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
- 3. Before Reading Strategies • Look at text and pictures • Teach one or two vocabulary words necessary to understand the text • Graphic Organizer • Think Aloud • Make Predictions
- 4. Look at text and pictures • Look through the text and the pictures. • Make predictions about the book. • This will allow students to think up key concepts about the book before they read the book.
- 5. Teach one or two vocabulary words necessary to understand the text. • Frontloading vocabulary is important. • It will make the student better understand what they have read. • If the have prior knowledge of the unfamiliar vocabulary
- 6. Introduce a graphic organizer • Graphic Organizers can help students become good critical thinkers. • It draws from the prior knowledge of the student • Can be used in whole class instruction or with a single student.
- 7. Think A Louds • Good for comprehension. • It allow the student analyze what they are reading as they read. • Can help the student have a better recollection of what they read.
- 8. • This will allow the student to activate prior knowledge on the book they choose. Maybe the student had read books from the same author and will predict if the book will be similar or completely different. Make Predictions
- 9. During Reading • Post it Notes • Partner Reading • Choral Reading • Turn and talks • Multicolumn Notes
- 10. Post it Notes • This a good idea because the student can put their thought in the book when they are thinking about it. • It makes it easier not to have to go back to a notebook and find what your thought was on a particular area.
- 11. Partner Reading • This allows the partners to take turns reading and discussing the sections they have read. • This can also be used as a warm up that leads into silent reading
- 12. Choral Reading • This is good because it helps the students with decode. • It also helps the student with fluency. • Helps the ability to read sight words
- 13. Turn and Talk • This gets all of the students involved not just the few that always have the answers. • It uses social interactions to advance learning • Allows the teacher to listen in to the students and see if they grasp the lesson she is working on.
- 14. • This forces the student to slow down and monitor what they are reading. Allows the student to self monitor. It is a higher order thinking skill. Annotating text
- 15. After Strategies • Exit Slip • Think pair share • Summarizing • Four Corners • Tweet the Text
- 16. Exit Slips • This helps the student reflect on what they have just read. • Help solidify what the student has just read. • Provides a snapshot of where the student is.
- 17. Can be used as an assessment tool. Allows the student to share their ideas with other students and see if they are on the same page or completely off. Allows students a great opportunity to interact with their peers. Think Pair Share
- 18. Summarize • Helps the student recall important main ideas. • Allows student to focus on key words and ideas. • Allows the student know if they actually comprehend what was read.
- 19. Four Corners • Common game for learning that allows the teacher to see if what she taught was interpreted the same by all students • Allow the students to have debates on why the think what they think. • Allows students to interact and give their points of view.
- 20. Tweet the Text • Brings something the students are familiar with into the class. • Students work in pairs to come up with 140 character summery of the text. • Student working groups to “tweet” their answer.