Our students look up to us in more ways than we may be aware of. As educators, we should create meaningful discussion by asking engaging questions to our students. Emotion is a useful tool for finding opportunistic times to ask questions. "How did you feel when (person) did (action)?" is an example of how I would take a pause to think out loud and question my understanding of the story as a model for the students. (#FEAP3f) I can possibly tie in interesting comprehension questions into the activities that my collaborating teacher and I have in store for them, most of which include reading. My CT always has high expectations for all of her students, helping them to be better than they think they are. My focus student has issues with comprehension in the text, and often has to go back in passages to find the information if you ask him a question about factual information. He must be feeling something as he's reading it, and asking him about what those emotions may be could be a good way to engage him in story based comprehension questions while the information is fresh in his mind. (#FEAP3b) I believe that he may be having difficulties with multi-syllabic words and several vowel sounds. based on the information I gathered from the Nonsense Word Test I did with him. Other students in the classroom display this same trend, therefore, I suggest we try to do a word study lesson for one of our reading sessions one day this school year. (#FEAP2c)
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Sierra
1/26/2015 04:54:24 am
I agree with you that showing our students how to make reading meaningful is very important. In my classroom, my CT uses sticky notes for the students to use throughout the texts that they are reading. I think it would be a good idea to let each student have their own stack of post-its at their desk and allow them to look through text and identify what is meaningful to them. Of course, there is always the issue of the students "wasting" the sticky notes. This could be alleviated if the teacher went over ahead of time (and modeled) the appropriate way to use sticky notes.
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