October 14, 2012

Hey Jennifer here is the first part of the class I recorded yesterday, the PQA part: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRvbMM-zqeA I will add a voice over “director’s cut” later, along with the actual story, as time allows.

Michele has come up with an exit ticket/evaluation tool and has already sent it around in Alaska and we get to use it too if we want, so thank you Michele! Hi Ben, Here’s a form that I adapted from everything on the site to hand my kids. I have shared it with all sorts

There is a kind of reading routine or cycle. Whether we are in a typical story week or in a plowing week doesn’t matter, there is a loose sequence of events that I move through whenever we are doing reading: 10 min. of SSR translation of what we just read R and D dictée (optional)

We have other options than invoking standards to make stories work in our classrooms. I hope I have not conveyed here that jGR is the end of the discussion on getting our work to align with standards. The real discipline comes from within and when kids bring that to a class it is because they trust