Tuesday, February 1, 2011

In class...

Today we started class by making a Pic Lic at www.piclics.com about what a focus lesson is.  Great website. Check it out!

Next, we read a little bit from Word After Word After Word by Patricia MacLachlan. Haven't been able to get into it yet, but I'm hoping I will as we continue to read it a little bit every week.



We also watched a couple videos of teachers doing a focus lesson. One was on leads.  Our class further investigated different leads in informational children's literature.  Here's what we came up with...
   
Some interesting ways to write a lead:

-start off with exciting action
-beautiful imagery and illustrations
-telling us about the main character
-asking the  reader a question (perhaps a provocative question)
-broad picture of setting
-historical context
-font choices
-getting us interested in family
-challenging our beliefs
-making the reader think - thought provoking
-quote
-title or chapter title

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