Teaching Strategies
The teaching strategies I will be focusing on are direct teaching, and classroom discussion by making predictions, questioning, making connections, and forming opinions.
Direct teaching: I will provide them with an introduction lesson on empathy before we read the story and discuss some real life people who showed empathy throughout history.
Classroom discussion: This will be the biggest component of the lessons. This involves having genuinely open classroom discussions throughout reading the story Class Act. The discussions will lead us to journaling, questioning, making connections, and sharing our opinions.
Predictions: Students will make predictions before, during, and after the readings. They will be able to write these predictions in their reading journal. Predictions is where the students will determine what they think will happen in the text using the title, the text, and the illustrations. The book Class Act has a lot of illustrations that the students can make predictions from.
Questions: Questioning is really important and I want them to get a deeper understanding of the text. I want them to stop and ask themselves questions to gain understanding and to really connect to the story.
Connections: I want them to make connections to the story and for them to think about what they already know about the text. I want them to find a way to relate to the text, and to relate that to the world around them.
Evaluate: I want them to think about the text and to form opinions and thoughts about what they have read.
Graphic organizers: This will help the students to organize their thoughts and it will help them compare and contrast the characters, and the settings in the story. They will also be able to compare their final thoughts to those that they had during the predictions stage.
Writing journal: It is important for the students to write in their journal, I think having an interactive notebook will help them see their thoughts clearly. It will help them organize their thoughts through graphic organizers in their notebook.
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