5th ASG Reading
Hola! Here's a blurb from a letter that was sent home with fifth grade advanced subject group in reading. There are
video highlights featured elsewhere on this blog.
Happy Thanksgiving, btw!!
Fifth grade classroom teachers identified reading fluency as the focus of reading instruction for the initial weeks of school. To this end our fifth grade Advanced Subject Group in Reading has been working on a couple of different fluency exercises. Our initial work was a readers’ theater play. In readers’ theater, students show the action of a dramatic presentation with the tone and cadence of their reading. The play students read and presented was A Spark of Genius about Ben Franklin. Students initially reflected on what they understood about Franklin with words and pictures.
We then had several small groups that read the play. After reading and presenting, students again reflected on their understanding of Franklin. Their work, both pre and post reading, are included in this communication AND are posted anonymously on the AIG blog. Students have also worked on fluency through poetry reading. Using award-winning poet Paul Fleischman's A Joyful Noise, students worked with partners to read challenging poems for two voices. Many of these presentations are also available on the AIG blog.
In coming weeks, this group will work on a simulation called The Great Ocean Rescue. In this work, students will research four sciences and then locate and solve ecological disasters around the world. There will be advanced background reading, video transmissions, and lots of opportunities to work on team skills such as forming consensus decisions.
Happy Thanksgiving, btw!!
Fifth grade classroom teachers identified reading fluency as the focus of reading instruction for the initial weeks of school. To this end our fifth grade Advanced Subject Group in Reading has been working on a couple of different fluency exercises. Our initial work was a readers’ theater play. In readers’ theater, students show the action of a dramatic presentation with the tone and cadence of their reading. The play students read and presented was A Spark of Genius about Ben Franklin. Students initially reflected on what they understood about Franklin with words and pictures.
We then had several small groups that read the play. After reading and presenting, students again reflected on their understanding of Franklin. Their work, both pre and post reading, are included in this communication AND are posted anonymously on the AIG blog. Students have also worked on fluency through poetry reading. Using award-winning poet Paul Fleischman's A Joyful Noise, students worked with partners to read challenging poems for two voices. Many of these presentations are also available on the AIG blog.
In coming weeks, this group will work on a simulation called The Great Ocean Rescue. In this work, students will research four sciences and then locate and solve ecological disasters around the world. There will be advanced background reading, video transmissions, and lots of opportunities to work on team skills such as forming consensus decisions.
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