Literacy

This week we began working together on a shared reading unit.  We have been reading Newbery Award winning book Number the Stars by Lois Lowry. See more about the book here, Number the Stars. But please don't share this with our students, it gives away too much of the story...;) 

This shared reading experience is allowing the teachers to model how we want students to be responding to text.  We learned this early in the year, but as the year goes by students need reminders about what good responses look like, as well as making things a little more challenging as the year progresses. The kinds of assignments include summarizing, vocabulary, questioning, character mapping, visualizing and passage finder. Here are a couple of screen shots of examples that I have modeled for students using Number the Stars.  

Summarizing

Vocabulary Finder

Question Writer