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PHOTO CREDIT: Nadene Klein at Tuolumne Meadows Yosemite National Park
Last week, I engaged in a meaningful professional development at my school around literacy. I was grouped with two math teachers and an administrator who has never taught in a classroom. She acted as a sounding board and moderator while we three teachers grasped the ideas that literacy is not just reading. Our presenters shared with us a protocol called Closed Reading. To learn more, here's a link: https://writingcenter.fas.harvard.edu/pages/how-do-close-reading At first, I was turned off. I didn't see this strategy working in my classroom. Luckily my counterparts were great thought partners as we developed applications that would work in our math and science classes. The rest of this post dives into the on learning activity that I can't wait to try with my students! One area in which students at my school need to grow is in interpreting graphs/graphics/infographics. My plan (yet to be done as of this writing) is to set up a gallery walk. There will be many graphs (et.al.) set up around the classroom. Students will begin with sticky notes of a certain color to jot down their initial observations on 3 or more. Next, they will go through the gallery again with different colored sticky notes to write responses or questions to sticky notes that others wrote in the first round. Lastly, students will select one graph from the gallery to bring back to their seat with all sticky notes and dive deeply into understanding that graph. I will develop an organizer or thinking guide sheet to support this more robust analysis for students. Stay tuned as I report on the outcomes of this activity once my class(es) have completed it. Also, I'd love to learn your ideas of meaningful applications of Close Reading in a science classroom. Please post them in comments below.
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AuthorNadene Klein, M.Ed. has been an educator for over 25 years. She brings a passion and love for science to the classroom and through this blog to you. Archives
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