Kailey Wessel's PDP
Year 2
Higher Level Questioning
These are the easy-to-use cards that I have been using daily for pushing students' thinking to a higher level.
Level 2
I have practiced using these questioning stems, especially "What can you infer from _____? " with my students.
Level 3
I am working on the questioning stem "What examples can you find that _______? " now.
Level 4
Once I reach this level, I plan to have students discussing pros and cons.
Thinking Outside the Box- Class Activities
See.Think.Wonder
What do you see/think/wonder about this book (cover)? After they completed this activity, we began to read the book, in hopes of answering their thoughts, questions, and wonderings. This excited the students to find out answers.
See.Think.Wonder
What do you see/think/wonder about this picture? They were shown this picture of the inside of Earth's crust from our science studies weekly. This allowed them to think deeper about this picture, rather than just reading what it already has to say.
Text Evidence- Find the Proof! Why? How do you KNOW?
Question...
Have the characters changed from the beginning of the book to the end of the book? Who has changed? How do you know? The students went beyond just highlighting, and gave specific reasons of WHY and HOW the evidence they chose backs them up. The students highlighted in their own texts first, and then we discussed what they highlighted and added it to the SmartBoard, using highlighter tools.
Their Own Packets...
Inferencing
I had the students stop while we were reading, and they made an inference based on the text we had already read.
"Do you think the twins can get along without their mother in the room? Why or why not?"
Finding Evidence
This is an example of a student's work. They followed along in their copies, as I read, and highlighted when a question was posed to them.
Finding Evidence
This is another example of a student's work. I went around the room, and I asked students what they found and why that particular sentence(s) was evidence.
Reading Response Journals
Journals
They turn in their journals daily and I check over them, and sometimes I select one to share the next day that is especially excellent, as a noteworthy example.
Prompt Example
The students have a packet of prompts to choose from and they write the prompt at the top of the page, along with that day's date. They also respond to the prompt they chose in the body of the page.
Another Prompt Example
Finding Evidence On Their Own
The students did this exercise on their own, as well, and wrote next to each highlighted portion the question that the highlighted evidence correlates with to show me what they found.
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These are the actual question pages that this student used to find and record her answers