Make It and Take It

III Professional Development

This afternoon from 4-6 we had a workshop in relation to last week's meeting with Sylvia Ford. We got to make all the hand on projects that she has used, and then keep what we made.

Here are the things we got to make:

*Individual conference folder (to use for SSR conferencing)

*Prose Umbrella (a umbrella with the different genera's such as drama, informational test, poetry, and stories) Each reading type is a raindrop hanging from the umbrella. Every work that you read in class, hangs under it’s particular type of text structure.

*Journals, it is black journal cut in half and then spiral bound. This can be used for quick journal writing. I use mine for my individual behavior plans.

*Text Structure Gloves. On the palm of the glove: Poetry is written (will change for different text structures). On the fingers: 1-Images and Sounds, 2-Types, 3- Rhymes, 4-Lines, 5-Concise. When discussing poetry the glove is used to guide thinking about the different elements of a poem.

* Reading Stop Light: 3 circles of green, yellow and red.
Green=what a student should do before reading. (Think about what I already know).
2. Make predictions from the cover and title
3. Survey questions prior to reading
4. Make pictures in my head.

Yellow=what a student should do during reading.
1. Reread what I don’t understand.
2. Put ideas and pictures together in my head.
3. Read between the lines.
4. Understand and use text structure.

Red=what a student does after reading
1. Summarize what I read
2. Confirm my predictions
3. Answer questions about the text.
4. Add information to what I already know.
*Author’s Chair-a plastic chair that all the students would sit in if they were presenting their work. Every time they share they get to sign the chair. At this meeting we got to decorate the chair with paint pens.

This was a great afternoon. The past meetings with Sylvia Ford have been phenomenal. My teacher has many of the manipluatives that are to help reading in the classroom. I have been using some of those things already. This “make it and take it” meeting, was really neat because I could make all of the things for my future classroom.