We're feeling lucky today! It's going to be a great day. Hopefully we will have as much luck as the boy in Lucky Leaf did. Lucky Leaf is a fantastic picture book to teach the reading strategy of inferencing. There are few words on each page, but the author gives many clues through the illustrations and the simple text. Students can make meaningful inferences. Our students kept track of what was happening on the pages and the inferences they made in their reading notebook.
More luck came our way when we ran across the poem "The Magic in The Moment." It is a complex text that requires students to understand the meaning behind the figurative language. Not only did our students have to infer they also visualized what was happening in the poem.
This poem was a great paired reading with Lucky Leaf. We had the students complete a venn diagram to compare and contrast these two texts. This was a challenge, so we provided the students with support. Completing this venn made writing our compare/contrast paragraph a huge success. We topped it off with a fun chalk leaf project.
We can't believe there is only one week left before Thanksgiving break and Parent-Teacher conferences! Have a great break.
Kim and Anne
