Call and Respond

I saw this poster in a classroom and thought I would share.  Some great attention getter ideas.

Daily 3

Our third grade has just begun to implement the daily 3 during their math block.  Today I got to see a bit of it in action.  Students were so excited to be playing a game with a friend for math with someone.  Students were also working quietly on their assignments for the math by myself daily.  Students were also working with a partner to complete a math story problem for the math writing daily.

Pics from around the building

 First Ggaders using the APL strategy: bellringers with notecards.  They had two cards to work on solving and one card they shared out how to solved the problem.

Kindergarteners working on completing their monthly essential skills assessemnts.  Students were independelty working on writing their numbers, drawing objects, and drawing a self- portrait.

Comprehension Toolkit in 3rd

Our third grade has been working really hard implementing the comprehension toolkit.  Their first lesson was a comprehension strategy to follow your inner conversation.  Once they introduced this strategy they then moved to learning about how to read a passage closely and what to do when their meaning breaks down.  In this picture students are just beginning to learn about a close reading with an oreo example.  Students came in and ate an oreo quickly and said what they ate.  Then later in the day they got to eat a second oreo but were to take their time.  Once they ate this oreo they described what they ate.  As you can imagine the answers were more descriptive.  This shows us as a reader that when we slow down and reread things it can help us understand what we are reading.

11 Alternatives to Round Robin Reading

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/alternatives-to-round-robin-reading-todd-finley