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Learning should be fun. Children should come to school each day excited because they know they are going to have fun learning new things.
This blog will be about creating fun and interesting lessons for both teachers and students alike. Just think how great it will be to know your students believe that "School is Cool" and that is a "rule" they can live with.
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English Language Arts
Books
Types of Books
Circle Books
Learning Goals:
At the end of this lesson students will have a definite understanding of making predictions and sequencing.
Circular stories follow, as the name implies, a circular or round pattern. Circular books begin in one way and end similarly. In the likeness of a life cycle, circular stories
follow series of events, which are fairly predictable and that return back to the starting
point. To increase understanding it is best if students have background experience with cycles and plot structure. this lesson invites students to use a
circle plot graphic organizer to explore the structure of this type of
story.
Comprehension
Digging Deeper: Developing Comprehension Using Thank You, Mr. Falker
Observational Checklist
- Ensure students have good decoding skills
- Ensure understanding of challenging vocabulary.
- Encourage students to make connections to their own world through the literature they read
- Teach students utilize comprehension strategies: predicting, image constructing, questioning, clarifying or monitoring, evaluating, summarizing, which will lead to strong analyzing skills
- Putting it all together: encourage students to ensure understanding by noting explicitly whether they are familiar with decoded words and that they make sense to them in context of the text. When misunderstanding occurs, students should be taught to go back and carefully decode/reread and reprocess
