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I teach 1st grade and we use 4 blocks, our district wants
us to now use task rotation. Does anyone have any
suggestions of how to use task rotations using the 4blocks
program. I thought about having 3 groups and each group
doing one of the blocks. I need HELP!
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brad /blockquote>

JJ is correct. Task rotation (if I'm understanding it
correctly, it's a new name for "centers") is not something
that is done within the blocks. Now, if you wanted to do
something with it outside the blocks, I suppose you could do
that to fulfill your district's mandate. My questions are
these:

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Feb 18, 2008
deb /blockquote>

I also have
> some kids who can do it entirely on their own, and I give
them the letters and
> they can find like 25 words in there, including the mystery
word no problem. I
> let those kids do it on their own.

Teachers are obviously "allowed" to do anything they want.
But in Pat Cu...See More
Feb 18, 2008
JJ /blockquote>

In my defense, I teach a multi-age class with kids in three grade spans. I do the
directed making words activities in small groups, following the four blocks model,
and for other kids while I am doing making words with the small group they do
"mystery word" so I HAVE changed the name. Those kids are no longer do...See More
Feb 19, 2008
transfers? KathyB2ndIa /blockquote>

On 2/18/08, deb wrote:
> I also have
>> some kids who can do it entirely on their own, and I give
> them the letters and
>> they can find like 25 words in there, including the mystery
> word no problem. I
>> let those kids do it on their own.
>
>
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Mar 29, 2008
oops, click too soon KathyB2ndIa /blockquote>

I know I don't have formal training and everytime I ask for help I
am just given more websites to browse, but isn't the purpose of
Making Words word sorts and transfers?

My colleagues and I use WordPlays to create our own Making Words.
We always spend our time finding the best word sorts for our
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Mar 29, 2008


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