general thoughts

Reader's workshop is going so well these days. I'm using the class novel as a platform for modeling literacy strategies that students can execute in their reader's notebooks. I've noticed a big surge in the activity in students reader's notebooks during independent reading. Students are compiling post-its with empathy and prediction thought stems, creating t charts to map character traits and inferences, and setting descriptions to visualize the world that the characters of their books inhabit. I've contacted Urban Initiatives as a potential platform for my boy's book club. It's a cool program that combines soccer with teaching, so we'll see...