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

On to unit 5 in our math series...double digit subtraction with regrouping. I put together a couple of centers to have kids practice the skill.  Most of them have it but they forget so quickly. Below is the place value chart I printed out and had laminated. The kids use dry erase markers and a damp tissue. Works great.

PEACE,
Carol

Hosted a Primary Lead Teacher group meeting today at my school. It is such a wonderful learning experience to get to work with this great team of teachers. We got to share some of the great things that each of us is doing. We also went into my classroom today. Staff developer did a mini lesson on raising the level of the jots kids are making. She had them state their opinion, give a reason for it, and give an example from the text to support their ideas. The "giving the reason" part seemed to be the biggest challenge for my kids. I am going to reteach it tomorrow. We'll see how it goes!
Anyway, I put together two ways that I think will help my kids write longer off of an idea that they recorded on a sticky note during their reading. (Part of the Opinion Writing Unit of Study from the Reading and Writing Project curricular calendar).

PEACE,
Carol

This is the anchor chart that I created to model what a jot would look like at each level.