Chapter 4 was a review for me. I learned all this when I took 3344 with Barker last semester. Just like the book we had used in her class, this book also has a lot of good ideas for activities the teacher can use to deepen children's responses to literture. Instead of making the students read the book and then write a book essay, the textbook as other activities. You can make them do a response journal (it's when the teacher and the student go back and forth writing to each other about the book), a reader's notebook (same thing as a response journal), retell the story, book talks/discussions, reader's theatre, and other things. By doing other activities with the students, you can check if they can comprehend what is going on in the book, and their writing skills. This morning Dr. Ferguson had said that we could grade two subjects in one lesson. It can save us, as the teacher, a lot of time, and we could use that time for more guided reading or math or even the subjects that seem to get lost during the day, for example: science and social studies. A fun activity that is mention in the book is the graphic organizer. Instead of using the same old graphic organizer that's just boring, make it fun, like Mrs. Pickett did for us. Let the students choose which way they want to do their graphic organizer. I also enjoyed reading Figure 4.3 Selecting Books by Development and Age. They gave a lot of good book examples for each grade level, and age. This data will be helpful in the future when I become a teacher.
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I agree with you, to let the students choose their own graphic organizer just like we did in class. It is fun and it is different. Also, yes it is boring doing the same old book reports.Another idea could also be having the students act out the story, they will be interacting, having fun, and you can tell if they understood the story. It's good for your kinesthetic learners. You have some great ideas, thanks!
ReplyDeleteValerie, I have already started the response journal with my sons that I homeschool. It is neat because we will write something down that normally we would forget to ask one another. Also, I have gotten a chance to learn what they really want to read instead of making them read something I think they should read.
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