Cups and choices

Durign readers' choices we realised that when we write our choices beforehand, it helps us focus on the task. It becomes learning intentions and makes us mindful of our goals. Following that practice, this time around we ended our lesson by assessing our understanding of what it means to focus and successfully make choices to become better readers. Armed with our formative assessment cups, now bearing our blazing orange level, we reflected and shared how successful we think we were during this time. We looked around and found that all of us had different levels of understanding and once again, we spoke about the importance of assessments and how it helps us know our next steps.

Prefixes in words

While reading the book, "Wonder" we came across the word, 'deformed' which was used to describe the face of Auggie, the main character. We talked about the word and tried to break it down to understand it. We discovered that it uses the prefix, "de" which affects the meaning of the word. It means "not something" and so we came to understand that Auggie's face could be described as not completely formed. Brought on by this inquiry, we played  a game about prefixes at readers' choices. It was interesting to learn how prefixes change the meaning of the word.

Word Games

Word games is one of the choices that BOPDs said would help them become better readers. These students proved that by choosing a game that allowed them to interact with words. They also learn to interact with respect.