Building better Readers

Hello-

We started our third grade ELA work by focusing on Metacognition and thinking about our thinking while reading. We've also discussed and modeled REAL reading versus FAKE reading. 

One lesson we did has us making Reading Salad-combining text and our thinking to make real reading.  Modeling this lesson with the kids, showing how I was thinking while reading, and then including their thinking while I read the text really solidified their understanding of Metacognition. 

We have also been working hard on building our Reading Stamina and this past week we were able to beat our first quarter goal of 15 minutes of sustained reading! 

Way to go Heroes!

Have a SUPER day!

Mr. Font 

Third Grade Superheroes

Hello-

We had a SUPER beginning to our year together.  We started the first day by analyzing a scene from Disney's Incredibles asking ourselves, "What is the job of a hero?". We documented our Hero qualities on an anchor chart and are constantly working to be a third grade hero. 

Here's the anchor chart that we created documenting the
qualities of a hero. 

We read The Astonishing Secret of Awesome Man and created our own superheroes.  We wrote about ways that we were going to be a third grade superhero. 

We started our first Read Aloud of the year. Captain Awesome is a phenomenal story told from the perspective of a little boy named Eugene who has a Superhero alter ego named, you guessed it, Captain Awesome. One of the best parts of this book is that Captain Awesome sees everything from the perspective of superhero- even his arch enemy, his little sister Queen Stinkypants. 

It's been a SUPER start of the school year!