Sunday, October 20, 2013

"I read it but I dont get it" by Cris Tovani - Access Tools


In my master classroom I am currently working on a schema building lesson plan where I am having the students complete a series of activities in order to stimulate the experience of a group in order for them to draw connections between their novels and their own lives. In order to comprehend entirely what we read as teacher candidates it is always beneficial to experience firsthand what we are taught, just like my students and their novel.

After completing I Read It but I don’t get it by Cris Tovani about how teachers can help students develop new reading comprehension skills, we follow our reading by using one of the access tools for our own reading. By experiencing the tools we will have a better understanding for teaching them to our students. The access tool that I chose was the “double-entry diaries”. Students will use this tool in order to connect direct quotes from their reading to ideas such as “I wonder”, “I visualize”, “This reminds me of”, etc.

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne

Direct quote and page number

1.       “Why are there so many people on that side of the fences?” he asked, “And what are you all doing over there?”

2.       “I’ve never spoken to him,” said Bruno immediately. “I’ve never seen him before in my life. I don’t know him.” (172)

3.       “He looked into the distance then and followed it though logically, step by step by step, and when he did he found that his legs seemed to stop working.” (214)

I wonder…

1.       If Shmuel understood why he and so many other people were fenced in.

2.       What would have happened to Bruno if he told Lieutenant Kotler the truth about their friendship.

3.       If the dad knew what his son was going through would he have done things differently in his career/family/life.



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