Podding It Up

During our language arts pods today, students incorporated two new activities to add to their language repertoire.  Two of our regular pods, teacher led and reading online, were part of our morning.  But today we also participated in a sentence mix up activity where each student chose a sentence from their novel, cut it apart then gave it to a partner to reassemble.  And our second new activity was free write, which we've done before, but using MS Word and then saving our work on our USBs independently.  I love seeing how involved the students get in their work and in honing their language and tech skills.

Free Write via MS Word

Sentence mix-up fun

Read aloud our novel to a partner, checking for comprehension as we read

Reading online, National Geographic Young Explorers