Brenda's+Babble

Choose one of the habits and consider:

When do you see the habit being employed by your students? What triggers or helps to encourage that habit?

Learning Continuously--I don't see many students using this habit on their own. To help them discover the benifits os searning for new and better ways, striving for improvement, growing, learning, and modifying and omproving themselves I have them reflect in their reader's and writer's notebooks. As we learn a new concept or thought, I will have students write about how that concept will help them become a better student, how they will use this information on. or why a teacher would spend time teaching this concept.

Brenda, I think it also helps that we model the fact that we teachers are continually learning as well. Suzanne

What real world connections are you considering?

Becoming a better reader!

What would be the role of the students?

Students will define their definition of reading, consider other definitions, modify (if needed) their definition, define and priotize genres, learn different reading strategies and how to apply them, and create a reading manual.

What project scenario are you considering?

A how to reading manual for struggling readers.

= Here's what I have so far...any suggestions or improvements accepted! =

Essential
 * Why do teachers teach reading?

Unit
 * Why do people read?
 * What do people read?
 * What do good readers do?

Content
 * What are the purposes or reading? (Why do people read?)
 * What are reading genres?
 * What are six reading strategies?
 * What are individual reading skills and how do you use them?
 * Is reading fiction different than reading nonfiction? How?