Hey friends! My mind is BLOWN with the fact that today, I took down my January calendar and put up FEBRUARY! I think my nostrils are beginning to smell saltwater 😉 Back to reality! This past week reviewed summary in fiction stories. I don’t know about you, but my kids pretty much thought summary was sequencing every event in the story and then just picking an answer choice based on luck. I am a list person that loves to color code, so why couldn’t I bring that into my classroom? First, we reviewed how to summarize using our two methods. Using the summary story mountain, we used post-it notes to supplement our learning. This REALLY helped my kids that needed a distinct break between the story elements. We also had wonderful conversations as to why a specific action belonged in the climax Post-It note. When they were give the post-it notes it really helped them “get the gist” of the story. I modeled it first with them, then they completed this activity in partners, THEN they did it alone. Our team doesn’t use a basal, but we needed passages that wouldn’t be too difficult as they were in learning mode. We pulled […]
