tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74292593092719726652024-03-13T11:06:19.564-07:00Inspired to ReadAdventures of a teacheramy meyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15911226931345896290noreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7429259309271972665.post-75825854786276991262014-08-10T07:35:00.000-07:002014-08-10T13:59:38.272-07:00PB 10 for 10 Kindergarten Favorites<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Next year I am taking on a new adventure....Kindergarten! I will be the LIFT teacher in my district. This stands for Literacy Initiative Focused Teaching. I will be teaching literacy to Kindergartners in the morning and afternoon that will be in addition to their regular K class. I couldn't be more excited!!<br />
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I feel like I've been in Kindergarten boot camp this summer. I've been reading everything I can to prepare for my new journey. I hit the PD book jackpot when Mandy Robek graciously lent me her fantastic professional reads. But along with PD reads I read lots of new to me picture books to find some great titles to share with my readers. I had the perfect reading partners this summer, my own almost Kindergartner (1 more week!) and my 3 year old.<br />
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I want my beginning of the year read alouds to engage students. I want them to laugh, giggle, shriek, and TALK! I want books that are simple in format, but also lend themselves to big ideas and good discussion. I want to find books with a great beat, music for the ear. I want to find books that lend themselves to drama and storytelling re-enactments. I want books that make kids come home and talk about them. Finally, the best books are ones that my K readers will ask for again and again and again. They will have characters that will remembered and celebrated in our classroom.<br />
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Thank you for organizing the event Cathy and Mandy! I love reading about everyone's posts about great books. </div>
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1. <u>The Watermelon Seed</u> by Greg Pizzoli<br />
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I LOVE this book. It will remind you of I Want My Hat Back, Simple in format, but leads to great conversation and laughter. It is an engaging story about an alligator who worries after he eats too many watermelon seeds. He finally solves his problem by burping up the seeds. What Kindergartener wouldn't love this plot solution? This book is great for teaching fiction story structure, inferring feelings of the main character, and retelling through drama. I am hoping my K readers want to re-enact this story with each other. It also has great sound words to notice if you are reading for author's craft. It's one I think you could read again and again. <br />
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2. <u>The Most Magnificent Thing</u> by Ashley Spires is a great story for any grade level. It shows themes of perseverance, grit, hard work, and creativity. It is the perfect beginning of the year read aloud to guide discussions about the struggle that occurs when trying something new.<br />
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3. <u>Almost</u> by Richard Torrey is one I will share with my Kindergarteners to build confidence about the many things we can almost do. We will talk about how if we something is hard, we may just not feel strong at it YET. I see us turning some of our almost statements into I Can statements.<br />
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4.<u> Alligator Baby</u> by Robert Munsch is my 3 year old's favorite book. It will make kids laugh. I read it to her preschool class last week and kids loved interacting with the story. We shrieked together each time a new animal baby was brought home. This is a good story for making predictions and inferring character's feelings.i </div>
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5. <u>Garbage Trucks</u> by Terri DeGezelle is a great nonfiction book for our classroom library. It is simple in format and one that we can read together to collect facts about the monster trucks. </div>
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6. A great fiction book to pair with <u>Garbage Trucks</u> is <u>I Stink!</u> by Kate & Jim McMullan. I love this voice in this story. It is told from the point of view of a garbage truck who eats trash while we are all asleep.<br />
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7. National Geographic's <u>Book of Animal Poetry</u> is full of amazing poems and extraordinary photographs. I love using these poems to explore language and vocabulary while also learning facts about animals.<br />
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8. Another great non fiction find is <u>Little Kids First Big Book of Animals</u> by Catherine D. Hughes. The photographs are excellent and the animals are separated by habitat. We can begin learning how to read the pictures by observing these animals in their habitats. It will also help us learn about features of non fiction.<br />
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9. I LOVE Elephant and Piggie books by Mo Willems! I bought a 20 book set for our library. I think they will be great shared reads. I love the themes of jealousy, friendship, sharing to name a few. I think they will be a great books to practice beginning reading skills. We can also use these books as mentors for our own writing. We will study Mo Willems' to see how he uses author's craft and how his illustrations help tell the story.<br />
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10. <u>Bear's Loose Tooth</u> by Karma Wilson and Jane Chapman is one in a series of picture books about Bear and his friends. I plan to read all of these to my K students. The books use rhyme and tell stories of friendship and teamwork. They focus on topics kids can connect with and share thinking about. I'm hoping these books help us develop our thinking voices about stories, and build discussion skills as a reading community.<br />
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11. I had to edit this post and add just one more I had forgotten I wanted to add....<br />
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I LOVE Pete the Cat and His Magic Sunglasses! This is a perfect beginning of the year read for any age. The message is all about looking at things in a whole new way with a positive attitude. When Pete puts on his sunglasses his mood begins to change as he looks at situations. I hope our communit can work together to focus on the good in a day!<br />
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<br />amy meyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15911226931345896290noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7429259309271972665.post-68328710950870784652013-11-05T01:54:00.000-08:002013-11-05T02:03:03.380-08:00Adventures in Kid Blogging<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I love kidblog.org. I love blogging, and even more than that, I love watching small bloggers get excited about writing for a real audience. Kidblog is a free site where teachers can create class blogs. Every student can have their own blog, their own special place to write, to publish, and to share. Kidblog gives kids a voice, and a place of their own to WRITE. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> We began blogging slowly. On my welcome to school letter before school began, I gave out the blog address and passwords and invited students to leave three comments about themselves.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> When school began, I taught students what a blog is and what bloggers do to participate effectively in an online community. I sent parents home letters explaining what blogging is with a list of suggestions for good blog posts. (Narratives, book reviews, information about a topic they are learning, poems..etc.)I shared about my life as a reader, a writer and how blogging fits into my world in both of these areas.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> I'm reviewing constantly that bloggers write for the public, for EVERYONE in our class to read. With this thought in mind, writers have to be aware of the content they are sharing. We've reviewed what makes a good comment several times this year already. I love that each comment and each post is emailed to me through this site. We've had to discuss how a blog isn't the place to publish a "stair" comment on improvements a writer can make. A blog is a public place to have good conversations about writing, books, and our lives. This is a place to celebrate authors and their venture into digital writing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> Right now blogging is a choice. It's something kids can choose to do at home and sometimes in the classroom. Everyone has had the opportunity to publish one piece, and I'm sure we'll do more together. I do however, like that it remains a choice, because I think that's what keeps it motivating. And that's the big goal... motivation to write, to read, to connect as a community. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> I share my enthusiasm for blogging. I love reading others' thoughts on blogs. I get most of my book recommendations through blogs. Many bloggers inspire me as a teacher, a mom, and as a writer myself. </span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">One student posted about her Egyptian culture and shared what language she can speak. This post inspired another student to post about her African culture and how to say hello in her family's native language.</span></li>
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<li>Everyone wrote a descriptive paragraph about a haunted house for Halloween. We brought in the laptops and all students got to publish their writing on Kidblog. My email has been busy every night since with comments. Students are reading the pieces and leaving comments that celebrate the authors. </li>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> My kid bloggers are getting their feet wet with technology and learning how to build an online community. We still have some work to do. Wednesday when we return, we need to talk about how you don't need three strings of exclamation points in a comment!!!!!!!!!!! :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> Have you used blogging in your classroom? Let me know if you have any tips for our class. </span>amy meyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15911226931345896290noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7429259309271972665.post-85030077644646598912013-06-13T09:44:00.003-07:002013-06-13T10:12:47.699-07:00Top 10 School Year Reflections...What Worked I realize that I haven't blogged in awhile. Life gets crazy is all I can say:) I appreciate my colleagues who blog regularly because they stretch my thinking and give me new ideas which I appreciate so much! The next school year brings lots of changes. I'm moving to a new school district in an effort to bring more home/school balance into my life. Luckily I am staying in third grade. My drive will be cut down by 30 minutes each way. I want to be a great teacher but I'm hoping a closer distance will help me also be a better mom. This was a hard decision, as I had helped open my school just three years ago, but I'm really excited for a new adventure!<br />
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Now that the year is over I was thinking about what worked. I have a very long list as usual about what didn't work but I'll choose to focus on what I think did go ok!<br />
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1. This year I had a better overview, or plan in place for reading units. I liked the flow, it just seemed to work. In reading I taught in genre units for the second year in a row and really liked it. As we tackled each new genre together, the main focus was always focused on how we could use the text structure to help us determine what is important in this book. We also thought about how we could think about what was happening, putting the details together to understand, to build meaning. Within each genre we thought about the big picture. We asked ourselves, why do the details matter? So what?<br />
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<span style="color: purple;">1. We are readers! Building a community of readers that read, talk, write, reflect and THINK!</span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">2. Fiction texts - plot, characters, theme, series books, compare and contrast characters and plots</span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">3. Nonfiction texts - looking at each text structure to save and think, learning how to make important thinking "sticky" by taking notes.</span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">4. Biographies (My favorite unit - so many great PB texts! Great way to review character traits and theme while continuing on nonfiction)</span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">5. Traditional Literature (myths, fables, folktales, tall tales)</span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">6. Historical fiction - I loved having this at the end to mesh fiction and non fiction reading strategies</span><br />
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2. In writing following the common core and using Lucy Calkins as a resource kids we focused on three genres for a long amount of time. Staying within narrative, informational, and persuasive units for extended amounts of time seemed to work well. Within each unit for the first time I pushed kids to write with lots of volume, creating many new pieces. In the past I used to focus on one good piece for a long time. By having students write many smaller pieces within each genre, I think this helped developed their final piece. I also think it pushed them as writers to write more.<br />
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3. We wrote informational books about a topic kids knew about before writing about a research topic they didn't know anything about. I had never done this and I loved the project. Kids are all experts on something and this was one of my favorite projects. My struggling writers were motivated to share what they knew and kids had fun trying out different text structures within their books.<br />
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4. Morning meeting. I love it - can't start a day without it. Stopping each morning to come together and say hello to everyone is a great way to start the day. Everyone feels valued and welcomed. This year I began having a short time after the greeting for students to envision their day and to goal set. I asked them to close their eyes each morning and to picture themselves having the best day possible. I asked each of them every morning to think about how they might feel at the end of the day if they had given their very best and treated all others around them with kindness. I asked them to picture what it would look like to work hard to reach learning goals even when it was hard. This small routine in my opinion, gave a great shared vision and goal to each new day.<br />
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5. Beginning the year with picture books that focus on a theme of endurance and perseverance (idea stolen from Patrick Allen). I love starting out with great picture books that get kids thinking and talking while also motivating them with these important themes.<br />
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6. YET. After last summers Cyper PD on Peter Johnston's book, I emphasized the word yet. We learned how to have growth mindsets believing that things we struggle with are things that we are not good at YET. I tried to instill a belief that hard work and a goal oriented mindset would help kids over come struggles. I tried to break down as many fixed mindsets, or the "I'm just not good at... as possible".<br />
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7. My team. I love them. We worked so well together. We all did things a little differently but we shared some great ideas and collaborating with them made me a better teacher. Last year our principal made us put together a sequence for teaching reading and writing using the common core. We complained at the time, but having everyone teach the same standards at the same time allowed for great collaboration. We were able to laugh together and we may have had a 5 hour happy hour the Friday after the OAA:)<br />
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8. Pushing kids to annotate. I love using readers' notebooks to have kids record important thinking and pushing kids to jot thinking on articles, as they read through them a second time. I didn't push everyone to jot all the time as I have in the past. Some kids need to be left alone to read! They were required to write sometimes but I loosened up my expectations because I wanted the goal to be the reading and for some kids stopping to write too much took the joy out I felt.<br />
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9. Read Alouds. We shared lots of picture books and articles together. As for longer books we read, Lulu and the Brontosaurus, The One and Only Ivan, and Little House in the Big Woods together. It was to my amazement that the kids LOVED Little House in the Big Woods. (I knew they'd love the other two!) I have some boys continuing the read the series this summer. BOYS! They loved the history in the story and we had some great conversations that tied into our social studies curriculum.<br />
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<span style="color: purple;">Blogging</span>. I love using kidblog with my third graders. I love that they write for real audiences.<br />
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<span style="color: purple;">Planbook.com</span> let me access my lesson plans from any computer. I loved being able to add in common core standards. It saved SO. MUCH. TIME. You can bump and extend lessons you've already typed out. No more erasing and rewriting.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: purple;">Evernote.</span></span>..I love this app. It let me record student observations and conference notes in an organized way. I took pictures of student work to save in each child's digital notebook.<br />
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This was long, I guess I needed to get writing again. Like I said there are MANY things that didn't work and have room for improvement.... (Notice math was nowhere in the what worked list! Tried a new program this year and it was definitely a work in progress. Going to try another new program next year!)<br />
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I'm excited for lots of summer reading and putting a new classroom together, as well as lots of time with my two girls at the pool! They were playing nicely and did not fight the whole time I was writing this post and that in itself is a miracle:) Really...it never happens!amy meyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15911226931345896290noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7429259309271972665.post-40910571039706196672013-02-19T15:12:00.000-08:002013-02-19T15:12:06.892-08:0010 for 10 Nonfiction Picture Books<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The last two years I have been trying to find new non fiction titles to share with my third grade class. Nic Bishop is my favorite non fiction author. All of his books lend themselves to deep comprehension work. The fascinating facts mixed with important information make all my students love them. His photography is amazing!</div>
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This is a great book about homes around the world. We had great discussion about cultural differences using this book. </div>
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I love biographies. These biographies got my class discussing theories about the "characters" and inspired us as well!<br />
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The two titles below are great pairs for non fiction information.</div>
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These two titles are also great pairs for history on life out on the west.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Today I launched our biography study with a new biography find. I read <u>Noah Webster & His Words</u>. Next year I will introduce spelling and word study with this book. It is the tale Noah Webster, the man who wrote the first American speller, many of the first American schoolbooks, and most importantly wrote our first American dictionary. We learned that Noah had a big motivation behind writing these books. He wanted to unite American with a shared language, and with shared spellings. Realizing the dictionary was written and created to unite a country of citizens was a powerful lesson for third graders!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Chunk up main ideas and key details about Noah's childhood.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">What was Noah's biggest accomplishment? </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Discuss the key details of his biggest accomplishment using who? what? where? when? why? how? to guide your thinking</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Find a cause and effect relationship between two events in Noah's life. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Develop a theory about Noah. What kind of person was he?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">What motivated Noah?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Infer how Noah's job of writing the dictionary might be different in this time period, or setting than the work of an author today?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Why did the author use dictionary definitions and parts of speech within this text?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'm excited to begin our journey with biographies. I'm always inspired when reading about influential people, and I'm hoping my students will be able to gain big ideas from the texts we share. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Do you have a biography you love to read to students? </span><br />
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<br />amy meyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15911226931345896290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7429259309271972665.post-88034091487369676032012-12-04T18:39:00.000-08:002012-12-05T03:56:04.851-08:00Informational Writing and Choice A shift I've seen in writer's workshop this year is the volume of writing from students. Using Lucy Calkins' third grade writing resource for common core as a tool, I began the year having students set volume goals for their writing. We wrote "fast and furious" trying to create a new narrative everyday during our personal narrative unit. We talked about having stamina, the concentration to say more, and to have the endurance to stay focused. We learned together that every writing piece doesn't have to be great, but writers have to get in the habit of letting their words and ideas out, they had to practice writing everyday to get better.<br />
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This brings us to our non fiction writing unit. Students were ready to write once again with a purpose in mind. To teach, to inform. Fully equipped, (well some are anyway:) with some background on writing a quality paragraph, jotting a plan for main ideas and details using boxes and bullets, writers got to choose a non fiction topic to write about that they were interested in and felt that they were already experts on. I told them about the project three weeks before they got to choose their topic. I wanted to create a "buzz" for finding the perfect topic. I knew the writing would only be good if students had a topic they felt passionate and excited about. As Lucy says, "writers can only engage readers if they themselves are engaged in the topic."<br />
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Fast forward, the kids seem to be loving this project. They seem to be loving the freedom to choose the structure of how each page will go. They were excited to create a table of contents of their own based on the main idea of each subtopic. As we learn about text structures in non fiction we discuss how pages in our informational books might mirror those of authors and books we enjoy. We looked at several good introductions. We learned that an introduction is like a movie preview, getting a reader excited to read the entire book. Students wrote their own introductions. They are creating their own headings and crafting their own designs for how they will present the information on each subtopic. We are trying out descriptive paragraphs, sequence charts, labeled diagrams, and finding words that should go in a glossary.<br />
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I love seeing kids take risks in their writing by trying out sequence charts or lists. They are dabbling in using companion sentences to tell readers what the important, or new words in their pieces mean. The power of our workshop seems to lie in the sharing. As we look at chapters from writers' drafts, we are noticing what they do well as a writer and giving each other next steps to take. My hope is that through the sharing conversations they are lifting strategies they will try out in their own writing.<br />
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My next steps as a teacher are to work on organizing the conferencing. I feel like an overstretched octopus during writing, a crazy ping pong ball, stepping to help, one child, the next, the next. My next goal is to model for students how to rely on buddy coaches to help to get feedback on their writing:) Or maybe some group conferencing on kids who are working towards the same goal?<br />
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I am excited to see how students will choose to teach our class about baseball, having an older brother, Christmas traditions in their home, taking care of triplets, martial arts, swim team, and fishing to name a few topics. I love to hear the buzz in the room as writers try out new text structures, decide where to put a diagram, or decide on the best way to organize their descriptive paragraphs. The enthusiasm, I believe, lies in the choice, the freedom to make their writing their own.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> With the common core in mind I have been thinking a lot about how to help students use precise language and textual evidence when supporting their ideas about what they read. Last week we put hand motions in place to help us realize when we are thinking about a book and when we need to support our thinking, or back it up with specific evidence from the text. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> When students shared their thinking about a book, they had to point to their head. (Or sometimes we use a thinking bubble prop to hold up while talking). Then, when asked what made us think that, when pushed to give text evidence, students had to point to the palm of their hand, or "the book". </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Thank you Cathy and Mandy once again for organizing Picture Books 10 for 10! I love reading everyones titles to get good suggestions for my classroom.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">My list includes titles that were all highly engaging to third grade students last year. These are all titles that got us talking and thinking!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><u>I Want My Hat Back</u> by John Klassen was a book that I read with my class at least 10 times. We did shared reads of this short and hilarious book and laughed and laughed every time. We debated on whether we were on "team rabbit" or "team bear". This book became a community builder as it was an "inside class joke" all year long. I love it and will read it again with my new group.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><u><br />Queen of the Falls</u> by Chris Van Allsburg was a favorite. (As is almost every book this author writes!) We had great conversations about the main character Annie and her perseverance towards her goal. Great book for character study, theme and inferring. I did it as one of my very first read alouds and it was great to build our reading community to practice jotting and sharing our thinking about what we read, </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><u><br />Me...Jane</u> by Patrick McDonnell was another books I fell in love with. It is the story of Jane Goodall. My class was inspired at how Jane worked towards her dreams and didn't let anything stand in her way. She was dedicated to her passions. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><u><br />Spiders</u> by Nic Bishop ignited a passion for great informational text in my classroom. I hadn't planned to do an author study on Nic Bishop but after reading this book we kept going with several of his others. We had great conversations about his "author's fingerprints". We were able to try out many thinking strategies using his books. We determined importance for chunks of text. This book has no headings so we thought about each section and discussed what heading might make sense to sum up the main ideas. We were able to determine important vs interesting information. Nic Bishop does a great job of including both in his books! I was glad to have found a new non fiction favorite author. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><u><br />That Book Woman</u> by Heather Henson made my list last year as I read it last summer. It makes the cut again because the conversations we had about this historical fiction tale of a pack horse librarian and a boy who couldn't read were so lively and engaging. This is a great tale to stop, think, and discuss. This year I will follow the story up with non fiction about Appalachia and the Pack Horse Librarians who brought books to their community.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><u>Gold! Gold From the American River!</u> was a great non fiction read about the California Gold Rush. It was a great text that was right at their level to understand and think about this time period in history. We spent many days reading, jotting, thinking and discussing this text. We compared many changes in daily life from this time period to today as well. </span></td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><u>When Marian Sang</u> is a fantastic biography about the life of Marian Anderon. We read this during a genre study of biographies. We worked on sequential text structure but also again were able to infer and discuss often what we thought about what was happening in this story. Marian inspired our class to believe in our dreams and to endure when times get tough or things stand in our way. After reading we watched real clips of Marian singing opera on You Tube which enhanced our learning.</span> </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><u><br />Balloons Over Broadway </u>by Melissa Sweet was one of my favorite non fiction books I read last year. I never knew the history behind the Thanksgiving Macy's Day parade! It had our whole class thinking about this parade in a way we never had before. This is what readers do when they read non fiction... they understand the world they live better! </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><u>Soar Elinor!</u> was another great biography based on the true story of Elinor Smith the first woman to fly under four bridges in New York. My kids did not want me to put this book down. The tale of Elinor's rise to greatness was both exciting and inspirational. We were able to do some deep thinking about what motivated the people in the story, inferences and questions we had, as well as finding the theme. We looked at photographs from Elinor Smith's actual flight. </span></td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> I read <u>Wonder</u> by RJ Palacio. I won't read it to my third graders but it helped me think deeply about how to inspire students to choose kindness.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> I read <u>The Fault in Our Stars</u> by John Green. I have never cried harder through a book. I think because I read it through the eyes of a mother and it made me think about life. This is for middle school students but I am so glad to have read it.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> Finally, I read <u>The One and Only Ivan</u> by Katherine Applegate. I think my third graders will love it. More importantly I think it will get them talking, wondering, feeling, inferring, in other words...thinking deeply about text.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> I'm choosing this as an anchor text to show the importance of book partnerships or book clubs understanding making meaning through talk. Every ending chapter or section sentence made me want to grab someone and talk about my thinking. I'm hoping these section endings make my students want to pause, talk, <strike>listen to one another</strike>, learn from one another and understand. My goal through this read aloud will be setting the stage for the importance of talk while using the text as an anchor to return to.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> I think boys will like the book as much as girls.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> I think students will find character empathy as they explore Ivan's setting and his relationships.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> A theme I didn't expect to find was the idea of a fixed mindset vs a growth mind set. An important event changes Ivan's belief about his destiny. This is an important beginning of the year theme.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> This book was also based on a true story about a gorilla who lived in a shopping mall. Maybe we will squeeze in some non fiction articles to deepen our understanding:)</span></span><br />
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Nurturing moral development isn't something that I will be assigned a color on, based on my performance but it is something that we all know is <b>essential </b>to build, discuss and teach in the classroom. We may never know how we touch student's lives by building their character, but we know we do when we help them look at situations differently, and help them solve problems, and chose kindness. When we talk about books or study writers we aren't just developing reading and writing skills we are learning about people and thinking about our own lives as well as the lives of others in a larger context. Yes, these talks build comprehension but I want kids to read books as a way of understanding themselves and others. Big comprehension is found when kids can take their thinking to the next level after reading and think about how what they read applies to their own lives, to their own world.<br />
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As the heading in chapter 7 reads, "Taking moral development seriously", this chapter was a good reminder of how we as teachers can do this and help kids solve problems through language.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple;">"Conflicts offer opportunities to make clear that we value considerate, empathetic behavior and disapprove of non considerate behavior, making casual links to emotional consequences." </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple;"> </span>My hope for my own daughter is that their teachers all take moral development seriously. It is not enough to just learn the content, I want my children to also learn how to be good people, productive members of society that care. I know that what I teach at home may not be enough. They will need teachers helping them problem solve along the way when school conflicts arise. This reminds me that I am teaching kids throughout the year to choose kindness, and nudging them to understand others who are different from them.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple;"> </span>Chapter 8 reminds us of the power of thinking together. It reminded me of how I need to model what it looks like, sounds like to REALLY listen. (I myself need more practice at REALLY listening to others in my life!) To have dialogue with each other that is meaningful. I hope to as the chapter says, to teach my students to become adept at listening, set goals to learn their partner's views. This is something I worked hard on last year. We talked a lot about how other people's comments, thoughts and experiences help build our own understandings whether we agree or disagree. Hearing another point of view makes you think more clearly about your own point of view, whether it changes your mind or not.<br />
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Thank you to everyone who has been posting about this book. This reminds me of the power of sharing refelections. So many posts have made me think about this book in ways I would not have done on my own.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> My three year old daughter LOVES to draw. I am constantly telling her how good she is at drawing, coloring, painting, etc. She loves to draw the same things again and again such as flowers, a sun, butterflies, etc. This week with Johnston nudging me in my ear... I started to tell her how hard she works on her drawings. She drew a dragon and I told her I noticed how she tried something new. I commented on what she did specifically in her drawings and what effect that had on her pictures. I don't have this down ...yet!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> This was an important chapter on the reminders of process vs person oriented praise. I think I give process oriented feedback often BUT I love to praise, praise, praise to keep kids confidence and motivation high and I know that at times my praise is person oriented. "You're so good at...I'm proud of you...., etc"</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> My big takeaway here is to keep my feedback process oriented and to focus on the effort, perseverance, strategies kids are showing and trying. Their effort and the strategies they take risks to try matter, and I must show the value of these through my language. In turn their language with each other will mirror my own. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> I need to continue to use language that shows the consequences of process or effort. I need to notice small shifts students are taking as readers, writers, or mathematicians. "[You did this] and if you [tried this], then [it would have this effect]" These are the comments that hold power to make an impact on students climbing towards goals. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> The big take take away.... I can give feedback where kids leave feeling <b>positive</b> without giving constant praise. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> This chapter defined a lot of my goals for the year. I want to have a group of students who ask lots of questions, think critically about topics and have dialogue with each other. I want students to focus on meaning making in book discussions and to listen intently to one another. Last year we really stopped to take notice when someone else made us think about something in a new way, whether we disagreed or agreed was not important, it was the fact that the person sharing made us think in a new way, which in turn stretched our own understanding. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> I like the point of how disagreeing can help us learn. Johnston reminds us that interesting discussions help us think more deeply. Thinking deeply happens when we listen so carefully to one another. I know modeling how to listen carefully to one another is an important first nine weeks goal. I want to help students understand the value of listening carefully and participating in group discussions to become "critically literate".</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> I kept thinking about book partnerships, whole class interactive read alouds and book clubs (reading groups). I want to use language to guide students to have these deep conversations with each other. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">We are teachers. We put our heart and soul into our profession. Our words are our tools in which we build learners. The words we use inspire, motivate, encourage, change, and teach. Our language matters. The messages we send our students matter. I was excited to start reading <u>Opening Minds</u> by Peter Johnson to learn more about how to talk to students in positive ways. I loved his book <u>Choice Words</u>. It is one I often flip back through to remind myself of positive ways to talk to kids. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span>As I read chapter 1-3 tonight I kept thinking about my language with kids. Do my words allow kids to take risks, to put forth effort, to have a mindset that they can learn if they try? Do I feed into children's fixed characteristics about themselves? Our most powerful tool as a teacher is our language and these chapters have me reflecting on how I can improve the messages I send to kids to empower them to want to change.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"> I also thought hard when reading about the fixed performance frame vs the dynamic learning frame. This is a mindset. A person with a fixed mindset believes that people are born with certain traits. I kept thinking about my upcoming third graders who already have beliefs about themselves as learners. These are the kids coming in who have already have fixed mindsets about themselves such as, "I can't write. I'm bad at math. I hate reading because it's hard for me." How can I change these fixed messages? How will I use my language to get kids to believe that their hard work matters and this year can be a new year full of new possibilities and outcomes based on their hard work and perseverance?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"> A person with a dynamic learning frame or a growth mindset believes that their effort will result in success. They work hard when faced with a difficult problem. They feel smart when encountering a challenge. How will I use my language to send the message that effort is more important than achievement? We all know these kids too. These are the kids who work so hard at what they do. They place value on their own learning and try, try, and try again when faced with challenges. Johnston describes placing emphasis on process vs performance.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"> I like the idea of telling kids at the beginning of the year, </span>"Your brain is changing and so is the way you experience ideas. Expect to change."<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">I thought about a beginning of the year activity while reading chapter 3. Johnston talks about deciding which things in life are </span>"essentially fixed, beyond our power to change, and which things we can change (even if it's just a tiny bit)."<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"> I was thinking students could as a group brainstorm things in the classroom that they could change vs things that were beyond their control to change. We could brainstorm stereotypes or fixed mindsets kids have about themselves that they could have the power to change...through hard work and effort, perseverance! Last year Patrick Allen inspired me to do beginning of the year read alouds on the theme of persistence. This talk seems like a perfect companion. While reading I kept hearing myself ask kids, "How will this year be different? How can you change the messages you tell yourself about your abilities" I keep thinking about how I will honor hard work and effort. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"> Thanks so much to the organizers of #cyberpd. I can't wait to read other's thoughts!</span><br />
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<br />amy meyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15911226931345896290noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7429259309271972665.post-25496627928324494072012-07-06T08:27:00.000-07:002012-07-06T17:54:12.940-07:00Pathways to the Common Core<img alt="" class="rg_hi uh_hi" data-height="225" data-width="225" height="225" id="rg_hi" 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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> To prepare for the switch to common core this year I have begun reading <u>Pathways to the Common Core</u>. I've also been reading Lucy Calkin's Curricular Plans for Reading and Writing Workshop. I love Lucy Calkin's voice in her writing. I find myself always nodding my head in agreement while I read. She has a way with language that seems to capture my thinking in such a wise way that I myself could not articulate. I can imagine her using this wise language with kids, guiding them always to keep growing as readers and writers.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Here are just a few big points from the first few chapters of this book I want to save or "make sticky". My thinking is in the purple:)</span><br />
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">"Students need to become strong writers, and to do that, they need expert instruction, <b>time to write</b>, and meaningful opportunities for writing a wide range of informational, argumentative, and narrative texts. They must also become proficient readers of many complex texts, and that means they need expert instruction and <b>opportunities to read</b> a wide range and <b>very deep volume</b> of texts." <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple;">Time!!! Students need time to read AND time to write. My goal for this year is to talk less and let kids read and write more. I am famous for taking a mini lesson and turn it into a MAXI lesson! </span></span></li>
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">"It is very possible that your readers are mostly reading for plot, grasping the gist of what they read, moving rapidly across book". <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple;">Model, model, walk together through deep reading, what it looks like, sounds like. Give multiple opportunities to make meaning together through discussion so readers read to extend meaning. </span> </span></li>
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">"Students should be doing lots and lots of in school reading. Students learn to read by reading. Watch your strong readers. One factor they have in common? They read a lot." <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple;">Calkins often references time for eyes on print. I think setting up a culture or community of readers, creating a buzz in the room for reading is the #1 priority in month 1 of reader's workshop. I want to rev up their eyes on print time at school AND at home! </span></span></li>
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Other big "sticky points" are balancing fiction reading with nonfiction reading, having students provide evidence to support their thinking and placing equal emphasis on both reading and writing. </span></li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> At the beginning of the book Calkins tells teachers to read the common core standards as if they were gold, knowing that they are not perfect. Attitude matters and I think approaching change with a positive attitude is important. Is change stressful, overwhelming, and scary? Yes, yes, and yes but I know many other teachers are going through the same challenges. I'm hoping the changes bring about lots of conversations as teachers tackle them together.</span></div>
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<br /></div>amy meyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15911226931345896290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7429259309271972665.post-87799862348008979982012-06-15T07:49:00.000-07:002012-06-16T04:45:55.405-07:00The Pause <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Tracey at <a href="http://thinkingstems.blogspot.com/">Thinking Stems</a> got me thinking about what I learned this year and about reading partnerships. I learned kids need lots of time to read, time and practice to take pauses while reading, space to think, time to write and people to talk to along the way. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> I've written about how I encouraged students to pause to save and pause to think this year. It's the pause, I believe that builds comprehension. It's the pause that lets you know the book has you. It's that moment as a reader where you decide, "Wait... this is really important! I need this information or this event to stick to my brain, or, I know I need to remember this." It's also the moment where for me as a reader I wish someone was reading along with me so we could both pause and stop to talk about what just happened, or what was just learned. That's where the thinking comes in, the comprehension, the deep plunge into the book, to gain new understandings or deeper meanings. When students truly are submarine reading, or reading deep for meaning they are able to pause to think, to connect, to notice, to wonder, to infer. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> I also started thinking more about reading partnerships and how to better foster them next year. Pausing to save and think, and jotting ideas give readers a starting point for conversations. These conversations about what kids paused to think and save are the heart of reading, of meaning making. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> Some of my very best lessons this year were when I pulled out quality picture books I had gotten at the Jr. Library Guild Sale. Together as a class we simply dove in, pausing to save important information and pausing to think abut what we read. Our conversations along the way helped clear up confusion, and extend meaning. They often gave us next steps to learn more about what we had read by going to YouTube or Wikipedia.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> My goal for next year is to guide kids to have these conversations within book partnerships about what they saved, and what they thought about what they were reading. I'm not so sure beyond guided reading and whole class lessons if we made time for this. Towards the end of the year I noticed several of my boys chose to read their books together. They were motivated when they were allowed to talk and jot together. I wish I had pushed for this earlier in the year. Kids jotted like crazy this year but I'm not sure they had the time built in to discuss their important thoughts with others, especially with others reading the same book!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> I also got to thinking I love to hear about parts in books that make other readers pause. I'm so excited to read <u>Choice Words</u> this summer because I know a group of teachers will be reading it along with me. I know their thinking will push my own thinking. Which words will get them thinking, and why?? This is where conversations hold power for me. Other readers sharing their own pauses in places I had not thought to pause will make my own understandings stronger. So here's to a goal for next year ... to help kids build partnerships where they can share their pauses more often and notice their thinking grew through conversation. All in all I hope this inspires some passion for reading!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span>amy meyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15911226931345896290noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7429259309271972665.post-59009561555699957792012-04-20T19:45:00.002-07:002012-04-20T19:45:44.997-07:00Getting our feet wet with Informational writing <br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> Do you ever just pull a book to read and midway through realize you have a whole new lesson, new focus that will last for days based on your kid's enthusiasm? This happened this week. I picked up the book, <u>If You Lived Here Houses of the World</u>. I had read a review of it on <a href="http://readingyear.blogspot.com/">A Year of Reading</a> so I knew it must be good. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> We are starting a study of cultures so I thought it would be a great non fiction read aloud to start sparking discussion of cultures. Each double page spread has a type of house and text to describe where in the world the house can be found and what is is made of. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Readers jot main ideas and key details</span> - as we read we jotted down the important details about each house we wanted to remember</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Readers sketch and add words to their sketches to build understanding</span> - after jotting notes we realized our words couldn't capture the description. We needed sketches of these houses along with words to explain what we saw</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Readers think about what they read</span> - after saving important information about each house, we jotted down our thinking (inferences, why we would or wouldn't want to live in the house)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Readers read across texts to research</span> - after reading about a few of these homes the kids wanted to learn more. We went online and first searched for more images on several types of homes and then read short articles on wikipedia about a few</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Readers write to share their learning</span> - partners took their notes and wrote about what they had learned. They added facts to inform and tried to add opinions, voice, and word choice to entertain</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">After trying this with a buddy students then got to choose their own type of house to research and write about independently. They read, jotted and are trying out a short informational writing piece.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Who knew this book would spark such enthusiasm! Hopefully it is gearing us up for a larger informational report.</span><br />
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<br /></div>amy meyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15911226931345896290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7429259309271972665.post-76023242470485066432012-04-07T05:32:00.001-07:002012-04-07T05:34:38.688-07:00"Crack open" a line<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> This week we tried out "cracking open" lines authors write. We learned that to analyze is to examine details carefully, break open the pieces to dig deeper. Analyzing is pausing to think about what you read, the heart of analyzing in my opinion is discussion. We talked about how in books there are many lines that the author puts in to show you something, to reveal something to you, in other words to urge you to THINK BIG!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> We read John Henry by Julius Lester. (Great book for figurative language!) At the end we found the line we knew we had to analyze, to "crack open" and discuss meaning.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">"But whether it was a whisper or a thought, everyone had the same knowing at the same moment, Dying ain't important, everybody does that. What matters is how well you do your living"</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We discussed and jotted what we thought this line meant together. The students had to bring it back to the text and describe what in the book happened that made them think this. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">It was a great discussion and we will continue to "crack open" more lines together. I hope students will find these lines in their own books to think deeply about and write their thinking about. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> The above chart was taken from a tweet I read this fall and has been one that my class has come back to again and again. How do readers read deeply or "submarine read"? Readers have to make their thinking "sticky". I told my class this year that their are two main ways readers can make their important thinking about books "stick" (to their brains), to become readers who dive deep into reading to understand.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">1. Talk about your thinking to someone else</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Throughout the year we've been pushing ourselves as a class to talk and write about what we read to better understand, remember and extend meaning of what we read. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> As much as education is changing I believe that conversations and written responses will remain essential building blocks to literacy instruction. Every year around this time I start to see the magic of talking about books throughout the year emerge. Our conversations are becoming more lively, more kids are sharing their thinking, deeper meaning is emerging through great conversation. Reader's notebooks remain the spot where our writing reflects where our brain has been in the book. <a href="http://thinkingstems.blogspot.com/2012/03/status-of-thereaders-notebooks.html">This post</a> from Tracy helped give me a way to breathe some new life into our reader's notebooks.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> The phrase below helps our class make deep reading a habit. Readers have to be motivated to understand and make important thinking "stick". Talking and writing about thinking is a habit we hope to do daily in our reader's workshop! It is a habit I hope I as a teacher am squeezing time in for daily, because I believe it is essential to deep comprehension.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> I highly recommend these books to read aloud. They can be used for multiple comprehension strategies. The language in both makes the reader pause often to appreciate the craft of writing. We viewed old photographs of Elinor Smith and her plane and watched YouTube clips of Marian Anderson performing at the Lincoln Memorial to deepen our understanding. We stopped to discuss plot, setting, character actions, important events in a sequential text structure, and so much more while reading each book.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> I used Lucy Calkin's new resource for reading with the common core (3rd grade) to guide students on how to read biographies or narrative non fiction. I'm hoping the lessons these women left about believing in your dreams, and working hard against all odds will stick with students:)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 18px;">Zoom in</span>: Readers preview non fiction by zooming in on text features such as a title, table of contents, captions, headings, charts, photographs, etc<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: medium;">Activate schema</span>: Readers think about what they already know about a topic before they read. This will help them understand the information<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: medium;">Read in chunks:</span> Readers can read small chunks of non fiction to get information about a topic or a question they have. Nonfiction can be read out of order depending on what specific information the learner is looking for.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Turn headings into questions:</span> </span>Readers can turn a heading into a question to focus their thinking to find specific information about a topic.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Pause to SAVE</span>: </span>Readers pause as they read to SAVE important information. They can use boxes to locate main ideas and jot bullets underneath to write down important information.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Pause to THINK</span>: </span>Readers pause to think about what they have just read. They ask questions, make predictions, infer meaning to unknown words or ideas, connect to what they already know, etc<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Determine important vs interesting information</span>: </span>Readers have to read and think about what is important to know vs what is interesting to know. We learned that many authors put interesting or fascinating facts in a book to make it entertaining for the reader.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Think about text structure</span>: </span>Text structure is the way a book is organized, the bones of the text. Think about text structure helps readers organize how they jot notes about a book, or determine important information. Some commons types of text structure are description, sequential, cause and effect, problem and solution, compare and contrast. Many books include more than one text structure for readers to notice.<br />
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Our next goal is to start sharing what we are learning from nonfiction with each other through our class blog and conversations with peers and family at home. We think readers need to share the exciting things they are learning with one another to help our important thinking grow!<br />
<br />amy meyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15911226931345896290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7429259309271972665.post-24981190641779936822012-01-05T17:38:00.000-08:002012-01-30T19:17:45.552-08:00Thinking about nonfiction <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> I've been thinking harder about teaching with nonfiction this year and have tried out some new resources, new strategies, and new anchor texts. Today a strategy we tried seem to make sense. We have been talking about how readers take in a lot of information when they read nonfiction and they have to <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple;">pause to "push the SAVE button"</span> on information they think is important or information they want to make "sticky" (Readers make important thinking "sticky" or allow it to stick to their brains by jotting/writing about it and talking about it). They have to use headings to find main ideas and then search for important details to save about a topic.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Readers also have to <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple;">pause to THINK</span> about the information they are taking in. We ask questions, think about schema we have filed away on the topic, infer, predict, etc.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> So today we decided to <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple;">pause and save</span>, then <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple;">pause and think</span>. We read chunks of text together. Partners turned and talked to SAVE, discussing what they thought was important vs interesting. Next they turned and talked to THINK about the information. Simple strategy, but it helped us think about what quality reader's response entries might look like using nonfiction. They might show readers saving important information and thinking about it using strategies or "reading powers" to help them understand the topic more deeply. It also allowed us to notice all the different types of thinking readers do about nonfiction.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> I'm hoping pausing to save and pausing to think will build deeper understandings of nonfiction students read. I'm going to start using short nonfiction articles for students to save and think on as a weekly routine, that will hopefully bring on some good discussions on how readers remember, understand and extend meaning of what they read.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Anyone have any must use nonfiction anchor texts? I'm really trying to beef up my nonfiction read alouds! </span>amy meyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15911226931345896290noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7429259309271972665.post-16765469426619545062012-01-02T05:08:00.000-08:002012-01-02T17:31:56.181-08:00A Word for 2012<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">"People often forget what we say or do, but rarely how we made them feel."</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> As I look forward to 2012 one single word keeps popping up into my head...<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple;">ENTHUSIASM</span>. I truly believes it makes ALL the difference in inspiring kids to get excited about what they are learning. Enthusiasm drives them to read more, write more, think more, problem solve, wonder and to KEEP GOING, to persevere even when things are hard. I also believe it makes a big difference in overall happiness in life. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Being around others who are enthusiastic about their life and what they do is inspiring and motivating to me. I want to be more like these people. A positive attitude</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> to me is important and at times can be difficult to maintain even when I have the best of intentions.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> I noticed this year for whatever reason, my positive attitude was slumping a bit. I kept my energy up in the classroom but have found myself complaining more, getting down about what I can't control, feeling more overwhelmed, etc. But, I am refocused and ready to start off the new year with positive, enthusiastic energy. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> I need to remind myself in 2012 that my enthusiasm, or rather my attitude towards things I cannot change or control is essential in creating a positive classroom, school, and home environment. Entering my first year teaching in a new "testing" grade and experiencing my first year as mother to two little girls has definitely been a challenge and an extreme test of balance. I think if I can continue to be <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple;">enthusiastic</span> about the career that I love, and the family I love, challenges and all, the path ahead of me will be easier and more enjoyable.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> I know that when I am around people who find joy in life, their faces, attitudes, and expressions become mirrors and I find myself smiling along with them. I will strive to maintain a positive attitude this year and to hopefully keep kids excited about learning.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> Thank you to <a href="http://enjoy-embracelearning.blogspot.com/">Mandy</a> and <a href="http://reflectandrefine.blogspot.com/">Cathy</a> for getting me thinking about my goal for the year. Your posts keep me renewed and excited about teaching!</span></div>amy meyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15911226931345896290noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7429259309271972665.post-25876897091775787812011-09-05T18:25:00.000-07:002011-09-06T03:43:00.162-07:00Giving our writing a push<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-X-XNv__aLME/TmV2HnHf41I/AAAAAAAAAF4/HRMOQa_vH8M/s1600/Unknown" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="134" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-X-XNv__aLME/TmV2HnHf41I/AAAAAAAAAF4/HRMOQa_vH8M/s200/Unknown" width="200" /></a></div><br />
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My goal this year: my students will write at least four times more than I can physically grade. They need more practice, not more grading.<br />
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This quote got me thinking...<br />
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Jumping into third grade this year after a small hop in literacy support and a long-ish run in second grade has been exciting and...crazy! Switching grade levels was not as easy as I thought. Encountering new standards along with new goals for a new year after much reflection is exhilarating/exciting/overwhelming/will I make it through the year?!<br />
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One goal I have for my students is to get them writing, writing, writing. I read this summer on twitter from @pamallyn "reading is breathing in, writing is breathing out." I hope we breathe in or read voraciously this year and breathe out with just as much enthusiasm and energy. My goal is for kids to realize that their words hold value, have importance and can change lives.<br />
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I've always loved writer's workshop and will continue to use this model to teach, write and share our work but I have some new goals to get us writing even more beyond our daily workshop time.<br />
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1. Blogging - I will try blogging with kids this year for the very first time. I'm hoping that having an authentic audience will get writers excited and motivated to share information and stories from their lives beyond our classroom walls.<br />
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2. Writing about reading. I always have kids write their thinking in reader's notebooks but I want to build in more time to share these important "thinking tracks" or evidence of where their brains have been. I want to model more of how readers show evidence of what is happening inside their brains as they read to remember, understand, and extend meaning.<br />
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3. Wonder Block - using wonderopolis.org, I want to get kids wondering, researching, and recording and sharing important/interesting facts from nonfiction<br />
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4. Meaningful morning work - Every day will begin with a message on the smartboard and each message will end with a question for students to respond to in writing. I'm hoping these will be questions that will get us thinking, talking (and writing!) more<br />
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5. Mathematical writing - I say every year I will have students write more about how they solve problems but I really mean it this year!!<br />
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6. Discuss together how students can show endurance in writing, and continue on even when it's hard or they don't know what to say, or how to say it<br />
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7. Highlighting "golden lines" from authors that inspire us as authors. I want to post these lines we want to remember to revisit author's craft.<br />
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Through all of these goals I want to instill a love for language, for words and for how writers can change the world around them, and the way others think with what they have to say.amy meyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15911226931345896290noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7429259309271972665.post-82591649453576392882011-08-16T17:30:00.000-07:002011-08-16T17:32:00.495-07:00Wonder Block<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
<img class="rg_hi" data-height="115" data-width="418" height="115" id="rg_hi" src="http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQpsmLcy5jatvoF_F1171MNoq34oygc2HmavFYYFqDQx88gYeUp" style="height: 115px; width: 418px;" width="418" /></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">How to incorporate wonder into the classroom has been a question on my mind this summer. I want to use wonderopolis.org this year to inspire our class to wonder, research, read, discover, collaborate, share and create. (Just a few small goals...) </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">My wonderful librarian suggested today that we have a "wonder block" every other week in the library! I LOVE this idea. Every other week students will come to the library with wonder notebooks in hand. This will be a time when they research wonders they have, record important thinking in their notebooks, record important new wonder words, and ask further questions. I want a share time to be built in where we will share the process of our research, wonderful new facts, strategies to help us understand non fiction, wonder words that are important, ways to hold thinking, etc. I'll have a short mini lesson to guide us along the way. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">My librarian is going to do lessons at the beginning of the year on how to find books you need on nonfiction topics independently. The library is a great place for us to spread out. We are surrounded by reference materials, technology (8 computers and a smart board) and of course great non fiction. Our school just opened last year so our books are all very new! I hope this special block of time will take us great places this year! </span>amy meyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15911226931345896290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7429259309271972665.post-64562025283407413892011-08-10T03:44:00.001-07:002011-08-10T06:30:18.535-07:0010 for 10 Great Read Alouds<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" height="150px" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-sRTExXlGM3I/TFDq92q55MI/AAAAAAAAABk/gZbDFfVl0AQ/s200/pb+10+for+10+015.JPG" width="200px" /></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Thank you Mandy Robek and Cathy Mere for organizing 10 for 10 picture book event!</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoteLevel1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I LOVED reading everyone's choices last year! I'm very new to blogging but thought I would jump in and contribute this year!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Must have picture books to me are books that..</span><br />
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<ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Have powerful language that can inspire us as authors (Lots of golden lines that make us say wow...I wish I could have written that!)</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Beg readers to TALK and discuss what is happening (hopefully building bigger and better understandings through listening to each other's ideas)</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Keep readers talking and thinking after the story is over</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Have strong characters</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Make readers want to inquire or <a href="http://www.wonderopolis.org/">WONDER</a> more about a topic</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Have themes that teach, inspire, and make us think about our own lives </span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Are delightful to the ear and meant to be read out loud</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Make kids smile-instill a love for books and language!</span></li>
</ul></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Okay, okay I'll stop writing and get on to the great books I can't wait to share this year!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">1. </span><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">That Book Woman</span></u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> by Heather Henson is a beautifully written story about a Pack Horse librarian who helped bring stories to a family in the Appalachian Mountains. Patrick Allen has me thinking about stories that show <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">endurance</span> and this one is perfect. Cal is a young boy who hates books. He says "I was not born to sit so stony-still a-staring at some chicken scratch. But me, I am no scholar boy." He sees a woman travel through all types of weather to bring he and his sister books. At first he thinks she is a fool, until he changes his thinking to see her as brave. Eventually he learns to read. The book has beautiful language and is written almost in verse? I think later in the year we can take out pages and discuss the authors use of language that helps the readers get to know the character, infer and visualize. In writing this is a great book to teach word choice and voice. And of course it tells the tale of how reading changes lives! I want to read more about the Pack Horse librarians now...maybe a lesson in how books lead to further inquiry about a topic?</span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1" style="margin: 0px;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">2. I have added Amy Krouse Rosenthal to my favorite author's club! </span><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">This Plus That; Life's Little Equations</span></u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> is going to be a fun read to get kids writing and talking about their own equations for life and for our own learning in the classroom. I think this will be great community building throughout the year to come up with our own equations. Some of Amy's are wishes + frosting = birthdays, bird + buds = spring. I want us to have fun with language this year to create our own equations.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">3. <u>If I Never Forever Endeavor</u> by Holly Meade will be an anchor text this year for endurance, believing in yourself, and trying new challenges! It is a short read about a bird who must decide whether or not to use his new wings. He weighs what might happen if he fails with the great possibilities of what could happen if he is successful. I love the message. I'm hoping kids will see the connection to giving our best in school and FLYING even when we are fearful.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">4. I love Patricia Polacco. She inspires me to tell stories about my own life. <u>Aunt Chip and The Great Triple Creek Dam Affair</u> tells the tale of a small boy whose town uses books to block the dam and turns to tv to get all their information. His Aunt Chip warns the town "there'll be consequences" of too much tv. I love to discuss how much tv is too much? Could a society that doesn't read have grave consequences?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">5. <u>Saving Sweetness</u> by Diane Stanley goes in the meant-to-be-read-out-loud category. Voice leaps out on every page through the tale of mean Mrs. Sump an orphanage director, an itty bitty orphan Sweetness and the Sheriff. This book is just plain fun-it always gets laugh. You can use it as a mentor text for reading strategies as well as a mentor text for writing. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">6. <u>Sophie's Masterpiece</u> by Eileen Spinelli. I love this story. Sophie is a spider who goes out into the world to create a masterpiece. She struggles as no one appreciates her gifts. As she ages she finds a beautiful way to create a final masterpiece. The language in this book begs for discussion. The illustrations give all readers much to discuss. This will also be a mentor text for our beginning of the year study of <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">endurance</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">! Sophie's perseverance is inspiring.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">7.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">I read <u>Big Blue</u> by Shelley Gill and learned many amazing facts about blue whales. Did you know a newborn calf (baby blue whale) is the fastest growing creature on Earth? A mother blue whale has to feed her baby 160 gallons of milk a day. Babies will gain 250 pounds a day! </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">Kye, the main character is a young girl who dreams of swimming with a blue whale. She loves to research information about blue whales. Her dream comes true when she joins her mom on a whale research project in Baja, Mexico. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">I loved that this book told a story and gave lots of facts about whales. The author used great descriptive language to talk about the ocean. Her words left me wishing I was near the ocean.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">8. <u>The Dot</u> by Peter Reynolds is another great text to inspire kids to try even when something is hard. A little girl Vashti is discouraged because she believes she can't draw. Her insecurities hold her back as she proclaims, "I CAN"T". Her art teacher finds a way to help Vashti believe in herself and make original work that she can be proud of. I hope this story encourages kids to try and take risks even when they feel insecure in themselves.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">8.<u> Courage</u> by Bernard Waber is a wonderful book. Every page describes what courage is, I love all the examples. Kids (and adults) can relate to so many of them. It will also be a mentor text for writing in our classroom using other words...(endurance, kindness, wondering, collaboration, empathy, creating!) I want us to write examples of what these important words look like to us.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">9. <u>The Hive Detectives: Chronicle of a Honey Bee Catastrophe</u> by Loree Burns. This is a book I read this summer because I was <a href="http://www.wonderopolis.org/">wondering</a> about why bees were disappearing after talking with a honey farmer at the farmer's market. I will use this book to show how a WONDER I had led me to inquire further. I will also use this book to model what happens when readers are confronted with a hard non fiction text. (This is definitely an upper elementary book) I had to do a lot of close rereading, reading in short chunks, studying of pictures and captions, and I had to stop often to think about new vocabulary I encountered.) This was a great book that I'd love to share bits and pieces of throughout the year as we look at nonfiction.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">10. This is a great nonfiction book ... or books, there are two stories in one book depending on which direction you choose to start reading. <u>Tadpole to Frog</u> and <u>Egg to Chicken</u> by Camilla de la Bedoyere. The photographs in this book are amazing and enhance the reader's learning so much! I must balance my nonfiction reading choices better with fiction this year. Kids need to build bigger background knowledge and non fiction hooks so many kids-this is a great book to enjoy and to teach non fiction comprehension with.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNoteLevel1" style="margin: 0px;"><br />
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