[MOSAIC] Determining Importance

[Tracy Gaestel]

And I am doing Open Court.  I am jealous, jealous, jealous.  I sneak good  
read-alouds into my lessons and teach real comprehension strategies and  
help my first graders begin to break the code and become strategic  
listeners and readers.  By and large, I'm comfortable with what I do, but  
this lesson just spoke to my soul.  Keep on teaching and sharing, Joy, we  
need it!!

Tracy

HappyOn Wed, 29 Nov 2006 15:32:09 -0800, Joy <jwidmann at rocketmail.com>  
wrote:

> We're revisiting Determining Importance this week by doing a Textmapping  
> project using a short book about the Trail of Tears. The groups were  
> actively engaged in determining importance like I've never seen them  
> before. Today we highlighted text features like italics and bold print.  
> Tomorrow we will highlight names of people, places, and geographic  
> features (rivers, lakes, mountains, etc.). Friday we are going to  
> highlight the problems encountered by the Cherokee, and the solutions,  
> if any. Then we are going to create story bags using icons the students  
> will create to signify their own imaginary journey along the Trail of  
> Tears.
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