During the 1st week of school, our class:
Learned about “IPICK” and how to pick good-fit books to read.
Learned about “Read to Self” and brainstormed ideas about what this looks like, sounds like, and feels like in our room.
Added 3 strategies to our CAFE Menu: Comprehension- “Check for understanding” Students learned how to check for understanding by stopping after they read a page or two and ask themselves: Who did I read about and what did they do? (Ask Who and What) “Use my schema to make connections” Students learned how to use what they know to make text-to-self connections as they read. Expand Vocabulary- “Tune into interesting words” Students learned how to record words they don’t know on a post-it, so they can be discussed later. Strategies are added after I model them repeatedly through read-alouds.
Learned that we can read a book 2 different ways. 1. Read the words. 2. Read the pictures.
Worked on building our stamina. Stamina is being able to do something for a long period of time without getting tired or giving up. So far, our stamina is 4 minutes. Everyone is working hard to make our stamina increase!
Visited a 4th and 3rd grade class to observe “Read to Self” being done. We saw some great things and provided those students with some feedback.
Self-evaluated our “Read to Self” time and we reflected on what went well and what we need to improve on.
Here are some pictures of some of my students during "Read to Self" time in their chosen smart place to read. They are just so cute and focused!
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| Jarod |
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| Emily |
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| Corey |
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| Noel |
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| That's Elizabeth under the computer table. |
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| Jayce |
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| Nicholas |
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| Arianna |
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| Cristian |
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| Emily |
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| Jairus |
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| Jason |
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| Corey |
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| Donnavon |
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| I think this is Jairus. |
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| Jahara |
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| Joshua |
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| Juliana |
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| Cristian |
