Every year, some of my favorite lessons to teach involve visualization, when a reader uses clues from the text to imagine what is happening in the story. To do this, I read students The Lorax by Dr. Seuss and didn't show them the pictures. As we read, students used the words they were hearing and their schema to imagine what was happening in the story. The Lorax is an amazing story to support the visualizing process because the setting doesn't change. Students created the land with the truffula trees and changed their drawings as the story progressed. First, students drew a serene space with tons of trees, a pond, and a wealth of animals. As the story goes on and the Once-ler starts chopping down trees, and the animals have to leave, students changed their drawings. Here are a few students showing their illustrations of the Once-ler's factory once all of the trees have been chopped down.
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Mrs. McGrane
I love teaching kindergarten literacy at STEM! It is amazing to be a part of the reading and writing growth of a kindergarten student. You get to see kids move from knowing some letters and sounds to being enthusiastic readers and young authors. Archives
March 2016
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