[MOSAIC] How are you all starting the year?

[Kinderjane at aol.com]

In a message dated 9/1/2007 8:07:31 PM Eastern Daylight Time,  
CNJPALMER at aol.com writes:

What  exciting plans do all of you have for comprehension lessons this year?  
 
Please share and let's get the discussion  going!
Jennifer


Hello Jennifer!  
I did Tanny's "reading salad" lesson with my Kindergarten children  this 
week.  
 
I took one of my husband's books (It was about genetics.) to  demonstrate 
sounding good as a reader, but not understanding what I was  reading.

Since many Kindergarten children don't particularly like salad, we did  
"reading pizza".  I used red paper for the sauce (text) and white  paper for the 
cheese (thinking) and we put them in an aluminum pie plate as I  read and 
shared.  I read the book  I Like Me, which was in  my plans for this week  already. 
Every page offered opportunities to share my  thinking.  Many of them really 
seemed to "get it". I will do the  sauce/text, thinking/cheese idea several 
more times hoping that everyone will  understand.  After one or two more times, I 
am going to cook some real  pizza with cheese and sauce to show how they 
"meld together" and become  part of each other.  Jane in SC  :-)
 



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