Diane mentioned Bryce’s Dual Line Reading Entry form. It is to be used with oppositionally defiant kids (or anyone else) whom we have separated out from the class in another classroom because they can’t behave. I’m sure that no one in our PLC allows those rare truly oppositionally defiant kids the privilege of staying in […]
I’m reposting this because the issue of blurting just came up as a thread. I have to say that this plan is better than any I have ever used to control blurting. Today it worked perfectly. No blurting. Even the worst blurter, a funny 6th grader with a fast mind and a great heart, came up
Here’s an idea from Eric someone may like to try out: Hey Ben: Quick strategy I’m trying this year and having success with thus far: Kids sit in chairs in a semi-circle with a few chairs behind the semi-circle. If a kid blurts out L1 or L2, he/she is asked to move to the back
From Eric: Check out Jim Trelease’s image: https://app.box.com/s/42shyfan0x5p754wsr71/1/1189482717/14395317372/1
Running dictation is such a good way to give kids a break from lots of input. Linda did a running dictation class today and it was during my planning period so I was able to observe. Linda asked the students to self-reflect on the activity and here are some of their thoughts: “This exercise was
Eric is testing a sequence of high frequency verbs. Here is the link: https://benslavic.com/blog/a-good-ideateaching-hf-verbs/ I have been using this. It is really good. I just take the sheet and hold it in my hand as a story script. You may want to try this one! Thanks Eric!
I was just talking with Linda Li and she told me that ten years ago in China she tried a yoga class, her first ever, and it was at the wrong level. She said that that bad experience has never left her. She feels that it prevented her from trying yoga again. We both agreed
Steven Ordiano in Fresno CA has given us some really great free write materials. One is a form for free writes and the other is an assessment instrument that resembles OWATS: FluencyWrite FluencyWriteAnalysis
I don’t even know if this one is even listed in our list of bail out moves. It’s really simple. Whenever we need to bail out (when the CI is sluggish and we feel kind of scared that we don’t know what we are doing, which is fairly common for all of this in this
It occurred to me that some of the newer people in our group may not know what our curriculum looks like. In a word, we teach verbs. We don’t teach a mosh pit of intellectual/academic material that can’t be understood. We come into class and our goal is to get as many repetitions on a
Our students forget content but they remember language. It’s a big joke that people are hired to teach kids things that they will definitely forget after the test, things that will have zero use to them whatsoever. Why? Because the information is going to the wrong place. It’s like putting all the furniture into the attic
This story from Jim Tripp has an elegant simplicity in the structure. The one I am going to do with the Skyped in kid from Japan may be too complex. I am glad Jim sent us this. It points up something of great importance – that many of us, certainly me, tend to forget.
