What We're Up To...

Here's a look at what we're up to in reading...

We made a "reading salad" during today's read aloud. Just like a tossed salad could be a mixture of lettuce and tomatoes, our reading salad was a combination of text and thinking to represent that REAL reading means you are metacognitive: thinking about our thinking! Without the thinking, we can't comprehend the text!




Here are some pictures of a new strategy we're trying. We use 3-tone paint samples to track our understanding of the text we're reading. We place our finger on the white square if our understanding is clear, the middle darker square if we think we understand but need to read on some more to make sure what we're thinking is correct, or the darkest square if we are confused and need to go back and use some fix-up strategies to help our comprehension. It has been a great visual aid to help us monitor our metacognition!








Here are some more pictures of us hard at work! We had a wonderful day today!






...And it's only Tuesday! Here's to a great rest of our week!