Notebooks

Weekly prompts for Notebook reflections. (Feel free to ignore prompt too and write about something else related to reading you want to remember or share).

Week 2:

So far, you have read a lot of versions of fairy tales. The common core standard for grade 2 says:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.9
“Compare and contrast two or more versions of the same story (e.g., Cinderella stories) by different authors or from different cultures.”

How might you take what you’ve learned about reading various tales and plan for your classroom? What worked for you in understanding the various tales? What did not work as well? What else might you do?

What was it like to try out a new reading and writing practice like Twitter? How might you find communities who think about teaching reading outside of your school?

What do you know about yourself as a reader so far?

What questions concern you about teaching reading?

Week 3:

What do you remember doing with reading in school? Which projects and activities do you think supported you as a read and what might have turned you off as a reader?

What are your take-aways from Miller?

How are you liking the series book? How might you use it in your classroom?

Week 4:

More take-aways from Miller

How are you liking (or not) your series books?

Draw the character from your series book or make an illustration that would go in your book.

Draw a floor plan of your future classroom and show how books and spaces for reading are incorporated.

Week 5:

More take-aways from Miller (chapters 1-3)

How are you liking your author book?

How are the reading aloud and/or silent reading activities working for you?

Week 6:

Miller? Things you don’t want to forget (even page numbers to keep track of)?

Final thoughts on author books?

Your experience with comics and graphic novels as we move into next week’s reading?

Week 7:

Reflect on the graphic novel. What was your experience reading a more visual text? How might you use graphic novels in the classroom?

What are you learning from the picture book presentations?

How is silent reading time working for you?

Are you noticing any changes in your understanding of children’s literature? How are your own reading habits changing (or not)?

Week 8:

Reflect on Make Lemonade and/or Love That Dog. What did you find interesting/confusing about reading a novel in free verse?

How did reading free verse change your reading or not?

How might you design a classroom and activities based on what you learn from Jack in Love That Dog? How do you think his teacher structures her class? What does the classroom look like? What activities do you think go on?

Week 9:

Talk to me about your experience with keeping a notebook for our class. Is the notebook helping you to reflect on your reading and/or the teaching of reading? What is working or what do you like about the notebook work. What is not working as well?