My goal for this year is to drastically reduce the number of copies I make. Not for environmental purposes, although important to me, but simply because copies are not necessary. Under the Common Core State Standards students will be expected to be in charge of their own learning with the teacher acting as the facilitator. This listening center book report idea is one way teachers can slowly teach students to become responsible for creating their own response to reading; another big CCSS standard.
Imagine doing a listening center without copying class sets of book report pages each week; a practice I have done for years. What if instead we used journals for the students to write their responses? I plan on giving students a sample of what is expected during the first month of school. Through this activity, I will train students to become more independent at writing their own responses to literature. I decided to simply use a chart paper to write directions for responding to the book they hear. I will change the responses out with each new book. As the year progresses I will provide less support.
For the "picture" area I can use sentence strips to ask the students to draw things like: Draw the front cover/back cover/title page of the book. Draw your favorite part of the book. Draw the characters in the book.
For the "write" area I can ask the students question like: What did you like best about the book? Who are the characters of the book? What is the setting of the book? What was the problem? How did the problem get solved?
I will save the money from not making copies for other important things, like purchasing more journals.
I hope to post more center ideas and copy saving ideas in the future.
Today I tried this lesson out. It was difficult for some students to follow along. I am maybe being over zealous thinking that 1st graders could do this on the first day of school. I am sure with practice they will be able to produce quality literature responses.
If your interested in teaching reading using the Common Core go to my website course page here. or my Fresno Pacific University website here.
Imagine doing a listening center without copying class sets of book report pages each week; a practice I have done for years. What if instead we used journals for the students to write their responses? I plan on giving students a sample of what is expected during the first month of school. Through this activity, I will train students to become more independent at writing their own responses to literature. I decided to simply use a chart paper to write directions for responding to the book they hear. I will change the responses out with each new book. As the year progresses I will provide less support.
For the "picture" area I can use sentence strips to ask the students to draw things like: Draw the front cover/back cover/title page of the book. Draw your favorite part of the book. Draw the characters in the book.
For the "write" area I can ask the students question like: What did you like best about the book? Who are the characters of the book? What is the setting of the book? What was the problem? How did the problem get solved?
I will save the money from not making copies for other important things, like purchasing more journals.
I hope to post more center ideas and copy saving ideas in the future.
Today I tried this lesson out. It was difficult for some students to follow along. I am maybe being over zealous thinking that 1st graders could do this on the first day of school. I am sure with practice they will be able to produce quality literature responses.
If your interested in teaching reading using the Common Core go to my website course page here. or my Fresno Pacific University website here.
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