Reading Response

Reading responses are a great way for students to share their thoughts, voice their opinions, respond to text in meaningful ways, take time to examine literature from various points of view, and learn to provide reasoning.

Today our Because of Winn-Dixie crew discussed characters at length.  Instead of just doing so in their reading notebooks, we incorporated tech into our daily learning and responding and wrote a character kidblog post.  We invite you to check them out.  Just click on the link below. :)

Character Kidblog Post

Connecting

Utilizing our reading strategy of "connecting" (how the story is similar to either something in your life, something in the world or to another book) students noted their connections to Because of Winn-Dixie via Kidblog today.

Connections

Literary Charades

As we read and enjoy Because of Winn-Dixie, we look for fun ways to help us interpret and show meaning of the text.  This morning we used charades to represent any event from chapters 1-7.  In groups, students chose their own event, decided how to act it out for the class, did so and we took turns guessing the event enacted.  What a fun way to express literature!

Because of Winn-Dixie

4th Grade Purple started their first novel of the year today: Because of Winn-Dixie.  To start our unit, students worked collaboratively in pairs to answer questions that will help prepare our minds for the theme and topics that we'll encounter in the book.  After working together in partners, we shared our answers as a whole class.  It's great to see the wealth of knowledge and ideas that everyone brings to our classroom.