Third+Grade

Example of Students Reflecting as They Work Through Their Challenge Project

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I tried teaching literacy groups like I used to back in good ole' Kansas. Here is a peek in case anyone wants to try it, tweek it, or ignore it!! It comes from the brain of educational guru and author Debbie Miller. She visited our school once and lead a conference for our district. She is awesome! Basically, she stems from the point of view that we, as good readers, interact and THINK as we read, so we need to model and teach this to children. I start by "thinking outloud" every time I read aloud. IF you are interested, I can explain it in more depth later... When we are reading and have a thought, question, comment, or connection, we stop, write it on a sticky (thus "sticky thoughts"), put it on the book where the thought was, and go on. For chapters, we fill out first our prediction of what we think will happen. Then read and record sticky thoughts. At the end of the chapter, we go back and see if our prediction was "busted" or "confirmed". Then we write down our sticky thoughts in our thinking section. Afterwards, we write a summary at the end. I do a page for each chapter, and then at the end, have all of the pages together like a book. I have included pictures of some "sticky thinking". If you would like a copy of the page, I can send it to you. Enjoy!!!!



I put my class through an experiment to see if I could pull off this Challenge Based Learning... My class was interested in an article we read from a TIme for Kids magazine about The Great Migration in the Serengeti. I figured out a way to bring it to Texas and turned it into a challenge! After help from Laura Salazar, here is a copy of my notes from the project.