K-7 ideas to encourage energy, literate conversation, engagement in whole class novels; a strategy sequence with Salmon Creek, and volcano surfing.

1. Reading Stories, Writing
Stories: Thinking in Action
BCTELA
Story and the Landscape of Learning
Oct 23, 2015
Faye Brownlie

2. Encouraging Literate Conversations
• The post-it note explosion☺
– The author used exquisite language.
– The author created strong emoHon in you!
– You have a clear image.
– You have a quesHon.
– What happened causes you to say “Wow!”
– You have found phrase you want to use.
– From Student Diversity, 2nd ed.

3. Reading Moves: What NOT to Do –
Allington, EL, Oct 2014, Vol 72, #2
• Asking students low-level quesHons aQer
they’ve finished reading
– “not a single study demonstrates that this pracHce
actually leads to improved reading
comprehension”
– Need literate conversaHons
• WriHng aQer reading
• Having conversaHons about texts students have read
• Higher-order quesHons

4. The Life Cycle of a Salmon
Jennifer Forbes & Cathy Van der Mark,
Gr. 3, Smithers
Learning IntenHon:
-idenHfy powerful words to increase our
vocabulary when describing the life cycle of a
salmon
2 hours

6. • Partner talk – review life cycle
• Introduce new vocabulary
• Predict from book cover
• Thinking page to collect words, 3 chunks
1) Sumi feels, sees and hears
2) Sumi’s environment
3) choose: either or 1 or 2 or Sumi’s changes

7. • AQer each chunk, students share their words
with their partner, then teacher collects as a
class
• Write, using powerful words to show how
Sumi:
– Feels, sees, hears
– Changes physically
– Her environment
••Circle your powerful words

8. • haunches
• cedar
• secreted
• lingered
• mucous
• fragrance
• algae
• larvae

13. Volcano Surfing Sequence

14. Intensive Vocabulary Building
Before During A-er
acHve
cinder cone
erupted
steep slopes
billowing
crater
degree
angle

16. • AQer making the tough climb to the top,
volcano surfers put on ___________________
clothing – including ___________ goggles and
someHmes _____________ jumpsuits – to
keep out all the ash.

17. • AQer making the tough climb to the top,
volcano surfers put on
p___________________ clothing – including
p___________ goggles and someHmes
o_____________ jumpsuits – to keep out all
the ash.

18. • AQer making the tough climb to the top,
volcano surfers put on pro_________(3 syllables, root
word, keep you safe) clothing – including p______
(material) goggles and someHmes o______ (colour)
jumpsuits – to keep out all the ash.

19. Why is volcano surfing risky?
• Read with the quesHon in mind.
• Answer the quesHon, with a partner, orally.
• Answer the quesHon in wriHng, using as many of
the key terms from the text as possible. Can you
give 3 reasons? 4?
• In Crazy Challenges – Jill Eggleton
• Key Links Literacy

22. Building Reading Strategies
• Reading is always about understanding.
• What strategies did you use to make sense of
this text?
• Compare your strategies with those of your
partner.

24. IEP

25. • An evaluaHon of the policy of incenHves and
earned privileges (IEP) in prisons in England
and Wales found mainly negaHve effects on
prisoner behaviour and percepHons of fairness
and relaHonships with staff.
• “IEP Revisited: Fairness, DiscreHon, and the Quality of Prison
Life” – Liebling, 2008