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Classroom Strategies That Really Work!
In the search for strategies to help my kindergartens learn I have had a hard time finding "research based" ideas or websites to get ideas. Any comments or help! I have really like "hands on" materials or ideas!
This is Dr.Seuss week! I would like to challenge everyone to try to use a Dr. Seuss book in your class this week no matter the age or subject! We have only been using them for one day in kindergarten and already because of the silly repetitions over half of our students can read "The Foot Book", "Green Eggs and Ham" and "One Fish, Two Fish" independently! It truly has been amazing! They are filled with so many of the dolch sight words!
ReplyDeleteThat puts an interesting twist on my classroom... but I'll try! Which Dr. Seuss book do you reccommend for middle grades math?
ReplyDeleteAmy I am so glad you asked!! The middle grades could look at "Dr. Seuss --Hooray for Diffendoofer Day!" it is all about testing!!!
ReplyDeleteOr "The Cat's Quizzer---Are you Smarter than the Cat in the Hat?" Objectives
3.01 Represent problem situations with geometric models from the 8th grade SCOS is in the second book! and 4.02 Use a sample space to determine the probability of an event from the 6th grade SCOS is also in the second book, and from the 7th grade SCOS you will find Objective 2.01 Draw objects to scale and use scale drawings to solve problems in book 2 also. You can share with "The Cat's Quizzer" with entire middle school and put social studies, science, and language arts out of it. It could be used in place of a week by week essential for a time period.
Donna,
ReplyDeleteYou may already be familiar with these strategies, but here goes...
When you or your assistant are reading with a student (one-on-one) and the student stops at an unfamiliar word and is unable to sound it out, say the word, then have the child repeat the word while holding his/her finger on the word.
If your kids are learning new words (spelling or vocabulary), rather than presenting/teaching the list to the entire class, try letting pairs of kids learn each word and then present their word to the rest of the class. This technique has been shown to result in greater retention than the standard "study-this-list" approach.
As for Dr. Seuss suggestions, I recommend "The Sneetches." It can be used at any grade level to launch a discussion about conformity and other social issues. Plus, it works well for literary study (rhyme scheme, alliteration, etc.).
Thanks for creating this cool blog!
Paul