In reading on Wednesday, we talked more about trickster tales and introduced the concept of inferring. I am realizing that I absolutely love reading aloud to the students. It is fun to interact with them and make the story come alive for them. I loved Dr. Kremer's suggestion to have pictures of the illustrations up on the smart board while I am reading. This would definitely help students to stay more engaged and be able to better interpret the text. My biggest struggle, with reading has been the book group time. I love that they are working in book groups and able to have more of an opportunity to explore and experience differentiated text on their own. But unfortunately, the class simply cannot do group work. They do not work well together, they are needy, mean to each other, and constantly off track. I did not give many parameters for book groups because I would prefer to let them do whatever works best for the individual group, but I am learning that for these students I need to provide way more structure otherwise it will be chaos.
In writing, they kept working on their trickster tales and pic collages. I showed them a few other cool things about pic collage and let student come up and show the class things that they had discovered about the app on their own. I think this was good because it reaffirmed their exploring. I'm excited to see the presentations tomorrow!
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