Angie has a request from the group. If you have any ideas, please post them in a comment field below.
Ben,
I have a request for the blog community: I would love a great big long list of everyone’s favorite follow-up/extension activities to do after stories. This should include the relatively useless activities that relate vaguely to the story and satisfy the student’s social needs and/or their need to feel like they are producing something, as well as the meaty CI-rich stuff like teacher-led discussion in the TL. For new practitioners like myself, especially since I’m working on the 85-minute block schedule, follow up activities are a life line while I work on my skills and on norming chatty/restless classrooms.
Thanks!
Love,
Angie