Today in Language Arts I stressed the importance of getting to know your story
before you read. The pictures, titles, and vocabulary words all can help aid in
understanding. The students used five main vocabulary words to do a quick write
about what the story may be about based on the five words. The students did an
awesome job trying to figure out why those words were important. We opened
up the book and they were pleased to see their predictions based on the pictures
and title were true. I played vocab o gram and didn't feel successful because the
students kept asking which words they were supposed to put down. If I was to
redo this activity I would have the words and page numbers listed so they can
find them and make predictions using the context clues and pictures, but that also
takes away from their freedom to choose. We also played sparkle to practice
spelling words which was fun, but it always eliminated the poor spellers firstDay 3:
Looking back on my teachings today I felt like overall the lesson went really well. The students completed their vocabulary sheets and knew why we check out the vocabulary words before we read. They were looking at the pictures and actively questioning and comprehending during our readings today. If I was to do this lesson again I would still have the students make a reading web, but as soon as we were done reading I would have them put it down. It is a great feeling ending a lesson and having the students ask for the same lesson again tomorrow. They really enjoyed themselves today. I was happy that everyone was engaged during the reading because some of the students could have dazed off during the read aloud.
Today the students held themselves accountable for doing their vocabulary sheets and checking things off in their treasure folder. It was a great feeling knowing that the students were deciding for themselves whether or not they deserved their final grade. The students who were not listening on Monday or didn’t keep track of the days realized that they were supposed to read, comment, or question something in class each day and started complaining. I said that I had no control over their actions and behaviors and that they would only be able to get done what they could for today, since yesterday was done. They all were asking to read the story using the reading web and the students were good about passing the reading to struggling students. The story ended and they were able to summarize what happened. The students were challenged by summarizing the story into one word of their choice. Every student had a different word which was really neat to see that the story meant something different to everyone. I am going to point that out to the students tomorrow before we do our critiques. By their conversations about the book I know that the week of preparing and reading has really helped develop their understanding of the story.
No comments:
Post a Comment