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My colleague, Andrea, who reads aloud complex nonfiction texts to her 5th grade students, spends about 30 minutes a day engaged in this practice. She reads aloud, but also stops to use mind maps (see image above) to help the students keep the information organized cognitively. In The Impossible Rescue (Sandler, 2012), there are several …Read more
Yesterday I conferred with a second grader who was reading The Moon by Deborah Eaton (written at a late 2nd grade level). When I approached her, I started by saying, “What are you reading about?” She responded with “the moon.” I followed by asking, “What have you learned about the moon so far?” This question …Read more
In a previous blog I shared how my colleague read aloud The Impossible Rescue (Sandler, 2012) to fifth graders. The students wrote letters about their thinking regarding main ideas in the text – “what struck me” or “what impacted me” and I wrote back in response. Instructional threads emerged as I read through and responded to …Read more