Today our classroom was all a chatter as we worked with partners and in groups for reading and writing. For writing, students were placed with a partner to edit their essays for end punctuation, capitals and spelling. Students sat shoulder to shoulder with their partner with one notebook in the middle as they read through each essay. For reading, students worked in groups of 4 and moved around the room reading short passages. As a group, they had to decide which signpost was most prominent in the passage and discuss and write the answer to the anchor question that goes with that signpost. Students got in some very rich discussions while doing this. I was impressed with how students were giving their opinion of what signpost it was and automatically backing it up with evidence from the passage. I heard things like, "I think it is a memory moment because here he is remembering the last time he went to the hospital and then again down here it talks about a different memory" or "I think it is a tough question because she is asking herself all these tough questions down here. . . and there are a bunch of them in a row. It's like a whole paragraph of stuff she is struggling with." Music to a reading teacher's ears!
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