Thank You Pinterest

Today we continued to work on the thinking strategy of making inferences.  The lesson I taught today was stolen/borrowed from Pinterest.  We watched two Pixar shorts movies.  The first one was called Geri's Game.

As we watched we made an inference that the short was set in the fall.  You can see in this picture how the students might have made this inference.  The evidence was the leaves on the tree.  We mixed this evidence with our schema of what happens to trees in the fall and were able to make the inference that it was fall.  Then we watched another Pixar short called For the Birds.

I love these Pixar shorts and I think they are excellent for helping students understand the idea of making an inference. 

We also continued to read Charlotte's Web.  In class we have started to discuss the idea of signposts.  This idea of looking for signposts as we read comes from the book Notice and Note.

As we read Charlotte's Web I am going to be introducing the first three signposts to our students.  The authors of Notice and Note through their research have found six signposts that show up repeatedly in literature.  These signposts should make students stop and notice and note as they read.  This process should allow for a more in-depth reading of the text.  

We have already introduced two of the signposts.  The students have a bookmark to remind them of the signposts and we are creating posters around the room that remind students of the signposts and how to use them as they read.  Tomorrow I will take more time to explain the two signposts that we have already introduced. 

Hope you are all enjoying your week.