Staff Development

I finally did get to work with a district on their opening staff development days on Comprehension. It was so much fun! We read lots and lots of Cinderella Books and then compared and contrasted the characters and made inferences about them. There are over 400 versions of Cinderella --well that is what I read--but we worked with about 10 of them. Here is some of the character analysis work that we did.

and here is some more

One important thing I learned from this work is...if you want to give your state test scores a bump, get everyone working on character analysis beginning with their read aloud work in kinder. If the children hear the same language and the same prompts surrounding character development as they are growing as readers, they will understanding the process and be able to answer all those types of questions on the state tests!

My student teachers met their classroom teachers and their new students last Friday. This is a really exciting time! It is an awesome experience to watch a student turn into a teacher right before my eyes.

Have a great new school year!