Today's class in Intermediate Literacy was pretty cool. We met in our PLC groups to discuss the readings we've done in the Strategies that Work book. Then, two students taught a lesson, one in a Kindergarten classroom and the other in a fourth grade classroom. They were both two different grades but the same overarching idea, which was Visualization. I really enjoyed their lessons!
In Kindergarten, she read a passage with descriptive characteristics of a "Green Giant" and we had to illustrate what we visualized. In the fourth grade lesson, the teacher read a story to us without showing us the pictures, this was hard for me to deal with, and asked us to draw what we visualized. She then read the story again, this time showing us the pictures. After reading the book a second time, we discussed what the book was actually about based on the pictures in the story. I thought they did a really great job!
In Kindergarten, she read a passage with descriptive characteristics of a "Green Giant" and we had to illustrate what we visualized. In the fourth grade lesson, the teacher read a story to us without showing us the pictures, this was hard for me to deal with, and asked us to draw what we visualized. She then read the story again, this time showing us the pictures. After reading the book a second time, we discussed what the book was actually about based on the pictures in the story. I thought they did a really great job!