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Strategy lessons: Synthesize Students stop often while reading to synthesize the information gained from texts to form opinions, cite evidence to support their conclusions, change perspectives, develop new ideas, and, in general, enhance a personal understanding of the concepts presented in a text. Learning targets
Synthesize
Bloom's Taxonomy Book Review Questions KNOWLEDGE: 1 point each 1.
Bloom Taxonomy Book Review Questions
Inferencing Mini Lessons
These lessons were modified and modeled from ideas in Strategies that Work by Harvey and Goudvis and Reading With Meaning by Miller.Discussion Guide for Train to Somewhere published by Houghton Mifflin Company
In the introduction to Train to Somewhere , Eve Bunting tells the reader that while the names of the towns and the route the train takes are fictional, the Orphan Train was indeed real.
Books
creating books
Once I did away with the basal many years ago and adopted the Reading Workshop approach in my classroom, I quickly realized that my students needed a place to organize their reading materials, keep track of the books they read, and record the thinking they do about their reading.
The Reader's Notebook
After experimenting for many years, I discovered an approach that's easy, fun, and effective. I refer to it as Classroom Book Clubs because it's a more relaxed method of doing Literature Circles that doesn't involve roles.
Literature Circle Models
In my classroom, literature circles are called "Book Clubs." The components of book clubs include choosing a book, reading the book, discussing the book, writing in your journal, and sharing the book by doing an extension project.
Literature Circles Structure: Grades 2-3
