We were able to study this book as a staff last year and the ideas are amazing. Reading cereal is one of the lessons from the book that I loved. The idea is to show the students that reading is thinking. I read aloud the book My Great Aunt Arizona.
As I read the book I showed the students the thinking that was going on inside my head. I would show the students how the text (the cereal) would cause my thinking (the milk). We talked about how this interaction between the text and my thinking is REAL READING.
We are going to continue to talk about this type of thinking that we will be calling metacognition for the rest of the week. Hopefully you will hear students saying the word metacognition and using some of the thinking stems like: "I am thinking..." "I am wondering..." "I am noticing...". The students started to use some of this language today as they discussed our read aloud book The One and Only Ivan. Here is a picture of the poster we made about metacognition.
We also got to start a 3-in-3 about summer. This 3-in-3, where students make as many three word phrases as they can in three minutes, can be found in their writer's notebook. Tomorrow we will finish this up by making a classroom poem about summer. I love these 3-in-3's because they are great way to gather your ideas about a topic and it does not take too long.
Reds need two runs in the ninth and I have to get ready for the reading cereal activity we get to do as a class tomorrow. Hope you are having a great start to your week.
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