Characters in a Series

SOS!! Please someone help us!! What is happening in education today? 

Anyway...today I had my students focus and think critically about what their characters are saying and doing, as well as looking at how these characters are reacting to problems and events in the story. They are struggling with developing ideas about the characters and how they have gotten those ideas from these elements.

I put together a graphic organizer for them to use to help them in a visual sense. It worked for this lesson! I am hoping that they will gradually be able to do it without the organizer. 

PEACE,
Carol

Teaching Inference

Involved in the Reading and Writing Project's Unit 5...Series Clubs and working on having kids infer giving text evidence. I have always found that teaching kids, especially 2nd graders, to do this kind of work as readers is such a challenge. Not only for them but for me as well. Each year each group is so different. I have a lot (10) of struggling readers and have them working on word attack and simple beginning reader strategies. They are just simply, not ready for inference work at their independent levels.  Just my thought for the day.

PEACE,

Carol