Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Slice of Life Day 6

This week we are reading books by Tim Egan.  I love his subtle, quirky humor.  The second grade read Serious Farm, the third grade Chestnut Cove and then I did a read aloud of my favorite The Pink Refrigerator.  Today we're going to watch a few things I found online:   first he draws and describes what he is doing and in another he is being interviewed by a girl their age.  Then we are going to spend time doodling and try to come up with a story afterwards to go with the drawing.  Last year when we did this it really helped some reluctant writers to draw first.  We shall see...

3 comments:

  1. Wow. When you made a comment about reluctant writers and drawing, I had to laugh. This morning I started reading The Power of Pictures: Creating Pathways to Literacy Through Art by Beth Olshansky.

    She worked with the very idea you expressed and is talking about how her whole class grew. Thanks for the connection.

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  2. I am writing this down. Today your words inspired my teaching. Way to go! :)

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  3. This sounds like a great way to get reluctant writers to write! Please let us know how it goes~! :)
    --jee young

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