Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Thoughts on ending the year

This week I was cleaning out some of the materials we had used during this year and came upon some novels that students read, full of post-it notes displaying their thinking as they read the book. As I was taking out all of the post-its and throwing them away, I was reminded of how thoughtful our students our when they interact with the text as hey read. I couldn't throw away such insightful comments and questions, and filed them away for the time being. Here's picture of this mass of post-its with questions, comments, and predictions (It's a little blurry because it was taken on my phone):