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I'm trying my best with the four blocks, and doing guided
reading with scholastic news and books I get from book
orders on sale or at thrift shops when I can find multiple
copies. I don't have a collection of books to choose from,
such as a leveled book room, so I am pretty much on my own.
I do the SSR daily, and guided reading pretty much daily,
if not with a book or magazine, with a poem.

I want the kids to do some kind of book project every
couple weeks until the end of the school year. I am
thinking of doing picture books only so that they can focus
on responding to literature, rather than the reading
itself. My 3rd graders are all at or above level readers,
and mostly read chapter books. We have not read many
picture books this year except for some guided reading, or
for some read alouds.

1- should this be part of the writing block? Right now they
have complete choice in writing topics most of t...See More
deb /blockquote>

What you want to think about is what do you want to teach
them?

What I mean by that is ...

Are you trying to teach them how to summarize? Do they read
the book and summarize? This is done in Guided Reading and
then a Writing in Response to Reading is written in the
after part of guided read...See More
Mar 3, 2008
Ms. Johnson /blockquote>

I have done very little response to reading. Once a week they respond to an article.
Sometimes it's a summary, but usually they write a persuasive piece, an opinion or
do some critical thinking (connecting it somehow to something else in their lives,
etc.)

I guess I missed something in the guided readi...See More
Mar 3, 2008
deb /blockquote>

I don't think you missed anything, it is a process. Kids first
learn to read, then learn to verbalize about their reading, then
we teach them to write about their learning. THis is where the
written response comes in.

This is different then the writing block.

You are on the right track. I thin...See More
Mar 3, 2008
Ms. Johnson /blockquote>

This is 3rd grade by the way. I want them to be prepared for next year, cause it
will hit them hard if they have to write 5 paragraph essays and lengthy reports. I
haven't had them do anything like that. Most of their responses are usually just
a paragraph, and for some who have a lot to say, maybe 2-3 paragraph...See More
Mar 4, 2008


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