Hi Teachers,
Just a brief note to welcome you to MCA'S Teacher Talk. My thoughts are that this would be a great way to share with one another and not take away too much time from our very busy schedules.
Many of our students here at MCA love to talk. We know this from the amount of talk they do in class. But they need to be strengthen in the area of "talk "as it relates to text . They have problems inferring, drawing conclusions, predicting, and paraphrasing.
Let's meet them where they are and allow them to talk , but teach them how to talk meaningful and purposeful " around text . One tool that may assist us in this endeavor is a book by Maria Nichols, Talking about Text. She presents several lessons that demonstrated how she taught students to "talk "around text to construct meaning. Let's read, share and enj0y!
S. Howell
Literacy Coach
May Community Academy
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
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