This week, we started our Scott Foresman Journeys series. The first story is What is a Pal? With the simplistic text for our beginning readers, the story lacks depth. Is this because our students are not ready to learn more about relationships? Absolutely not! This is solely based on their reading ability at this stage in the year. We are supplementing the text with a padlet wall. I have put together several tasks for students to complete throughout the week. Some of the tasks are "skills" based and some are concept based. Many of the embedded videos discuss friendships, while some simply reiterate phonetic skills. I plan to create a wall each week and allow students to pace themselves during morning work and stations. I will be able to talk to students about misconceptions within their answers and make corrections whole group if necessary. The walls are a work in progress throughout the week and student responses will become jumbled as they submit them. I will clean up walls throughout the week and notify students when corrections are needed. You may check out this week's wall at www.padlet.com/dulin/whatisapal but please remember "work in progress"! If you would like to build a resource like this, you can copy and paste my tasks onto your own wall. I can not share this particular wall with you because we would have too many student responses on one wall. Any questions about padlet?
Dee Dulin1st grade teacher infusing STEM, PBL, and 1:1 mini-ipads Archives
February 2017
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