COMPREHENSION STRATEGIES +

TECHNOLOGY AND WRITING

INSTRUCTION =

GREAT COMPREHENSI

ON GAINSJamie Johnson, LMS,

Norman Public Schools

Lori Sharp, Literacy Coach,

Noble Public Schools

"THE FIRE OF LITERACY IS CREATED BY THE EMOTIONAL SPARKS BETWEEN A CHILD, A

BOOK, AND THE PERSON READING. IT ISN’T ACHIEVED BY THE BOOK ALONE, NOR BY THE

CHILD ALONE, NOR BY THE ADULT WHO’S READING ALOUD

—IT’S THE RELATIONSHIP WINDING BETWEEN ALL THREE, BRINGING THEM TOGETHER IN

EASY HARMONY." — MEM FOX

READING MAGIC: WHY READING ALOUD TO OUR CHILDREN WILL CHANGE THEIR LIVES FOREVER

Why are you

wearing the shoes you are today?

QUICKWRITE:

PETE THE CAT: I LOVE MY WHITE SHOES

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUubMSfIs-U

PETE THE CAT: ROCKING IN MY SCHOOL SHOES

“I’m

ROCKIN’ in

my

SCHOOL

SHOES …

I’m ROCKIN’

in my

SCHOOL

SHOES!”

COMPELLING CONNECTIONS CHART

Poll Everywhere

• Go to NEW MESSAGE on your cell phone

This is the number: TYPE 37607 • In your message TYPE 147168:

Type YOUR connection•Send your message and enjoy reading everyone else’s connection!

WALLWISHER

GLOGSTER

“If we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow.”  -John Dewey

“Do not confine your children to your learning, for they were born in another time.” -Chinese Proverb

“The principle goal of education is to create men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what another generation has done.”  -Jean Piaget

TEXT CLUES / INFERENCES

“Salvador, Late or Early”

TEXT FEATURES

STRATEGY: SWBS

Write your own obsessive six-word memoir!

SIX-WORD MEMOIRS

BROTHERS ARE THE GATEWAY TO TROUBLE!

– HALEIGH

I NEED TO BELIEVE TO ACHIEVE!

– NICOLE

BULLIES HAVE MORE STRENGTH THAN BRAINS.

– NOAH