Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Reading Strategies
I have started a reading program in my classroom that is comparable to an adult book club. I give the students about 20 minutes to read nonfiction texts. They have post-it notes to tab pages of anything they would like to bring to the circle. They students absolutley love this opportunity to share their thinking aloud with the class. Students tab pages that may have a challenging word that they need help with, something that may have given them a "wow moment", a word or even a sentence that they had to use a reading strategy to understand the information being read, etc. Having a class blog would give my students time to share that same information when doing their nightly reading at home. This might even spark interest for other students to dig deeper into that same topic or help another students have a greater understanding of what they are reading.
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Cute idea. I bet the kids love feeling so grown up using sticky notes while reading. How often do you meet or discuss what the students have noted?
ReplyDeleteWe meet together in a circle on the carpet 3 days a week. The kids really do love this. They do not like when our schedule gets moved around and we are not able to share their findings. It's a great way to hold them accountable for their silent reading time as well. I am noticing that the students are doing a lot more reading instead of just enjoying the illustrations. They are usually sad if it's time to come to the carpet and share and they do not yet have something bookmarked.
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