I love getting into a new read aloud. We get to meet new characters. We get to meet a new author. We get to get excited about another book. I also love this book because I have only read the first chapter. This book is a new book. It just came out this year and it has a chance to win the Newbery Medal. I love sharing new books with the class. Something they have not seen or heard about from their friends. It allows the students to make up their own mind about the book. Plus it gives us a chance to read aloud the Newbery Medal award winning book before the medal is given. The last two years I have been lucky enough to have read the book aloud before the medal was awarded.
When these books were announced, my classes felt so cool that they already knew about the book that won this important award. It was like we had found the coolest thing before it became cool. Hopefully this year we will get to experience that feeling once again.
Today we also used a new reading strategy with our article of the week. I think this strategy is called a graffiti wall. The whole idea is that students share their thinking about an article they read with their group. Here are some pictures of the graffiti walls that some of the groups created. It is amazing to see this thinking going on about text. Each student used a different color highlighter to mark section of the articles where they wanted to share their thinking. Then others in the group would add their thinking to that part. I loved all the colors and the discussions that were happening on the paper.
Hope your week is off to a great start!
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