The students then did independent writing and drawing about what they would do if they were a snowman at night!Īs part of our research based Read It Up creations, we always include a grammar lesson. This made a great turn and talk lesson where the kids shared their ideas with one another and built their oral language skills. Next, we brainstormed what we would do if we were snowmen at night and created a class chart of our ideas. Then the students complete their own flow map! ![]() ![]() As we made our flow map we are orally retelling the story. Next, we sequenced the story using a flow map. After we read the book we listed what the snowmen actually did! We started Snowmen At Night by predicting what we think snowmen do at night. Making predictions is a great way to engage readers and excite them about the book. Our Read It Up creations are interactive and involve the reader and the text, they are strategic and give readers a purpose and a variety of strategies to comprehend the text and they are adaptable so students can change strategies as they read and build comprehension! Snowmen At Night: ComprehensionĪlso Available As a Digital Resource: CLICK HERE We’re building their oral and written comprehension skills with multiple opportunities to speak about the books and write in response to literature. With Read It Up we’re providing students complex texts with the scaffolding and support to allow them to be successful. Snowmen At Night and They Snowy Day are two of our favorite winter books so they make great tools for building our reading comprehension skills. And that’s why we’ve made reading comprehension a major focus of our instruction using our Read It Up creations. This is why reading comprehension is so important. If you’re not comprehending and understanding what you read, then you’re not really reading.
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