Haley's Coaching Corner
---------------Keeping Elliott teachers in the KNOW!
WOW!
- Love the great ideas each grade level had on how you could use close reading, viewing, or listening in your classroom!
- Melissa White used Cut-Ups to help students make connections and deepen their understanding of geometry concepts!
- 4th Graders had lots of fun using toothpicks to dig through owl pellets!
- Fifth grade is planning to create sentence stems on popsicle sticks to guide their student discussion in book clubs!
ELAR
Several of you are focusing on small-group instruction. So many aspects of a well-run small group are true in the individual conference, but with one-on-one conferring there are fewer student needs to manage. It’s helpful to practice and feel confident with conferring with individuals. When we practice individual conferences, we will be practicing much of what we need to do in small-group lessons, including:
- research: listening carefully to students reading or talking about their reading
- decide: making in-the-moment decisions in order to give feedback
- teach: articulating a clear strategy for the student to practice, and staying focused on that strategy
Watch this video of a research-decide-teach conference with Jennifer Serravallo and Julianne, a fourth grader. As you watch, notice the structure of the conference. Using this structure can help keep our conferences focused and smoothly paced.
- Research: Ask questions, look at artifacts, have the student read aloud.
- Decide: Determine a strength and possibility for teaching; ideally, these are aligned.
- Compliment: Offer a clear, explicit compliment just like in a compliment conference.
- Teach: Offer a strategy and give feedback as the student practices.
- Link: Repeat the strategy and state your expectations for what the student will do as he continues practicing independently.
Close Reading, Viewing, & Listening
I really enjoyed learning and collaborating with you on Thursday. Thank you for making it such a wonderful day of learning!
Close Reading:
- You can click here to read some important teacher behaviors to be mindful of when teaching students to read closely.
- Click here to see some examples of close reading annotations.
- Here is a helpful visual from Stephanie Harvey for Close Reading. It includes a graphic organizer students can use to record their thinking during each reading of the text. Please keep in mind that a student's annotations/jotted thoughts should make sense and be meaningful to THEM. The goal is to deepen each individual student's comprehension, so there is no set formula.
Math
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