innovate. engage. empower where do we grow from here?
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Where do we grow
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Students TeachersBuilding the Reading Community
Retelling
Making Connections/Using Schema
Visualizing
Wondering/Questioning
Making Inferences
Create structures and routines for student-centered learning
Address vocab within context of read aloud
Model strategy when needed
Ask open ended questions
Use cooperative structures routinely
Maintain a neutral stance
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“Our job as teachers is to force the strategy
until it becomes automatic”
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Where do we grow
from here?
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erListening for Understanding…
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erListening
•Look directly at the student who is talking•Minimize distractions•Sit forward in your seat•Listen closely•Explore and discuss the ways students come to their conclusions•Take notes
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What do you visualize Mattie looks like?
Student: “I visualize the beak being this big (uses hand gesture) and that the bird is HUGE.”
Teacher: “What in the text made you think that?”
Student “…so enormous it is that it weighs as much as the whole body”
Teacher. “Tell me more.”
Student.” If the beak is as big as the body it has to be pretty big.
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What do you visualize Mattie looks like?
Teacher. ”What in the text made you think the bird was big and not really small?”
Student: “…her wings sounded like a steam shovel puffing away” “Steam shovels are not small, they are big.
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What do you visualize Mattie looks like?
Student: “I think her beak has these pointy things that shoot off of it”
Teacher: “What in the text made you think that?”
Student: “It said her bump looked like a thorn.”
Teacher: “Let me reread that part.. …her bump looked just like a small horn. When I reread the text, does it change what you visualize?”
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“Our job as teachers is to force the strategy
until it becomes automatic”
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erListening
•Look directly at the student who is talking•Minimize distractions•Sit forward in your seat•Listen closely•Explore and discuss the ways students come to their conclusions•Take notes
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erTaking Notes
•5-I listen, I write it down, and I know what to do with it
•3-I listen, I write it down, and I have NO idea what to do with it.
•1-I listen, I don’t write it down because I wouldn’t know what to do with it if I did.
orI don’t need to write it down because I know.
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It takes 10,000
hours of practice to
achieve mastery
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erTaking Notes
•5-I listen, I write it down, and I know what to do with it
•3-I listen, I write it down, and I have NO idea what to do with it.
•1-I listen, I don’t write it down because I wouldn’t know what to do with it if I did.
orI don’t need to write it down because I know.
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erWhy note taking is essential to the
work of the collaborative classroom…
Patterns• Patterns drive instruction for next day
Goals• Keep goals in front of you-the notes you take depend on
what you want to know
Creating a habit of kid watching• If kids aren’t using the language of the strategy, they don’t
have the strategy deep enough yet
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“Our job as teachers is to force the strategy
until it becomes automatic”
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Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and
that takes practice, but we don’t have to do anything else. We just have to be willing to sit there and
listen. -Margaret Wheatley
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erUpcoming Events
•Option 1: Research in Action day at P.K. Yonge on January 13.
•Option 2:Two days of in-county visits. Your teacher would see four other model classrooms