He asked open- ended questions that invited exploratory talk, prompted for elaboration, and allowed uncertainties to linger
The before a book conversations are important and often times a really good time to start their learning and interest in the book. Pre-book, they are obviously unfamiliar with the content so this allows you to help them understand the background to better understand the content when going through the actual book.
nteractive read- aloud structural strategies.
Good suggestions, good to use
reformulations,
"students reformulate information into a format that was not presented in the text."
sketch- to- stretch
"writing from multiple perspectives, and using visual displays such as a venn diagram or a timeline to make sense of events in a text."
void repro-ducing . . . systems of inequity
Keep the social justice reading responses on a guided path with engaging conversation and action-oriented activities to prevent.
efraining from always first showing illustrations
I've never heard this suggestion before, but it makes sense
new perspectives, active listening, and collaborative thinking
Read-alouds have many benefits for the student.
o we began ordering children’s literature across genres that rep-resented more diversity and especially books that reflected our students’ backgrounds.
This is something really big and relevant in my philosophy of teaching is bringing my students' backgrounds to light in the classroom.
By social justice, we mean topics that take on issues of equity (
The great thing about children's literature is that they have such a wide variety of topics in such small, easy to read books, even the un-talked about. This allows for you and your students to really have an educational experience on the carpet while still learning about relevant current topics.
ial justice is especially important in our community, wh
This article reminds me a lot already of a textbook I read called Black Ants and Buddhists. The textbook gave many examples on how touchy/un-talked about subjects we brought to light in the classroom positively.