Today I attended my first PLC meeting! I love the idea of PLC and I am looking forward to attending more.
In literacy, I met a new friend in our classroom. His name is Rocky the Reader. Rocky says that "Reading is thinking" and has a brain full of things that we as readers need to be doing while reading. So far, my students have learned about making connections, visualizing, using schema, and questioning. I wonder what Rocky will teach us next about thinking while reading!
We read My Neighbor's Dog is Purple to practice visualizing! My cooperating teacher only revealed parts of the poem at a time. Before the last stanza my students completed a "before" visual image. After the last stanza was read they completed an "after image". Loved it!! Poem below:
My Neighbor’s Dog is Purple
My neighbor’s dog is purple,
Its eyes are large and green,
its tail is almost endless,
the longest I have seen.
My neighbor’s dog is quiet,
It does not bark one bit,
but when my neighbor’s dog is near,
I feel afraid of it.
My Neighbor’s dog looks nasty,
it has a wicked smile…..
before my neighbor painted it,
it was a crocodile.
By: Jack Prelutsky
In literacy, I met a new friend in our classroom. His name is Rocky the Reader. Rocky says that "Reading is thinking" and has a brain full of things that we as readers need to be doing while reading. So far, my students have learned about making connections, visualizing, using schema, and questioning. I wonder what Rocky will teach us next about thinking while reading!
We read My Neighbor's Dog is Purple to practice visualizing! My cooperating teacher only revealed parts of the poem at a time. Before the last stanza my students completed a "before" visual image. After the last stanza was read they completed an "after image". Loved it!! Poem below:
My Neighbor’s Dog is Purple
My neighbor’s dog is purple,
Its eyes are large and green,
its tail is almost endless,
the longest I have seen.
My neighbor’s dog is quiet,
It does not bark one bit,
but when my neighbor’s dog is near,
I feel afraid of it.
My Neighbor’s dog looks nasty,
it has a wicked smile…..
before my neighbor painted it,
it was a crocodile.
By: Jack Prelutsky