Reading

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. 

This shared reading experience is allowing the teachers to model how we want students to be responding to text.  We will model many ways to respond, what good responses look like, as well as making things a little more challenging as the year progresses. The kinds of assignments include making connections, analyzing characters, vocabulary, summarizing, , questioning, , visualizing and most importantly finding the theme of the story.  Check back for some examples of student work