Posts Tagged ‘Q-W-L’
Post It Connections
Submitted by: virginia
July 6th, 2010
Categories: 1st Grade | Reading & Writing
Description: students will use a variety of Post-it® Notes to respond before, during and after reading a story. The story is part of a theme and the students may respond to the story or the theme on the Post-it.
Ask- it- questions??
Submitted by: Gloria
July 6th, 2010
Categories: 1st Grade | 2nd Grade | Classroom Management | Language Arts | Reading & Writing
Estimated Time: 20-30 minutes
Description: I use Post-it® Notes during shared reading with my 1st/2nd grade students. Teacher's are usually trained to read through a story without stopping to help student with the flow of the story and keep young children attention. I realized that sometimes the students may have question during the story but if they wait until the story is over, they may forget their question. So, I give my students several "sticky's", to write their question until after the reading is over. We take time to listen and answer questions and just using Post-it with young kids is wonderful because they really feel like big kids!!
What do you know about good essay writing?
Submitted by: Amie
July 6th, 2010
Categories: 6th Grade | 7th Grade | 8th Grade | Reading & Writing
Estimated Time: 30-40 minutes
Description: My 8th graders take a state writing assessment in January each year. Students always come to be at the beginning of the year worried about the test. This is one of the first activities I do each year. I pass out copies of sample essays that the state provides. These are actual essays from past year's writing assessments. They provide essays from each scoring level along with the scoring commentary. I do not indicate which level the writing is from. I pass out a packet of essays to each table and give them a stack of sticky notes. I tell them to write what is good and what is bad about the essay on the sticky notes. I make posters for each essay. I post the essay in the center with of a piece of poster paper that is about 2X4, leaving lots of room along each side. I then allow students from each table to come up and post their sticky notes on paper around the appropriate essay. We then have a class discussion about how they already know what is good and bad about writing. I read the scorers commentary to show students that they typically said everything that the scorer said about the essay. It makes students feel better to know that they really are more prepared than they think. I laminate one poster with the post-it note comments attached from the Does Not Meet, one from the Meets, and one from the Exceeds categories. I then hang these in the room to remind students of how much they already know. I've been doing this for 4 years and it is one of my favorite and most helpful activities.
Independence
Submitted by: Teri
July 6th, 2010
Categories: 1st Grade | 2nd Grade | Classroom Management
Description: There are so many ways that I use Post-it® Notes. One of my favorite is on-going and is used at any time of the day during all areas of curriculum. It allows my students to practice independence. Post-it notes are always readily available for when students need them for multiple purposes. They use them to mark book levels, to add words to our word wall, and on and on and on. The emphasis is on the way it helps children feel independent and have ownership for their learning and classroom.
Post your Prediction
Submitted by: Debbie
July 6th, 2010
Categories: 1st Grade | 2nd Grade | 3rd Grade | 4th Grade | 5th Grade | 6th Grade | 7th Grade | 8th Grade | Classroom Management | ESL | History | Language Arts | Math | Music | Reading & Writing | Science | Special Education
Estimated Time: 10-20 minutes
Description: Before students begin reading a fiction/nonfiction selection students brainstorm words that come to mind when looking at the material they are about to read. Give the students about 10 mins to come up with as many words they can within 10 minutes. The students should write each word that comes to mind on a separate sticky note. Then have the students rearrange them to form a paragraph predicting what they are about to read. Save the arrangement of stick notes so students can compare their prediction after they have read the article/story.
