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Inquiry in Reading and Social Studies. Questioning – How to start. * Give students models for questioning - question words - sentence starters * Practice with interesting artifacts or pictures - starting with a visual product is easier than an oral or written piece
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Questioning – How to start * Give students models for questioning - question words - sentence starters * Practice with interesting artifacts or pictures - starting with a visual product is easier than an oral or written piece - if the artifact does something, even better! - write down every question that is offered * Find the rich questions. Weed out… - questions that can be easily answered ( ‘right there’) - questions that have a ‘yes’ or ‘no’ answer - questions that are unanswerable (sometimes these can be reworded) *The questions that remain may be good places to start inquiries
Picture of the Day What do you observe in this picture? What details do you notice? What do see when observing it "closely"? What inferences can you make based on what you see in this picture? http://helloliteracy.blogspot.com
Morning Meeting Morning Meeting Messages Doing Math in Morning Meeting Doing Science in Morning Meeting
KWEL Chart http://www.nsta.org/publications/news/story.aspx?id=51519
Spelling Idea How would you sort these words? What do you notice about these words? redo read relocate rename relief rebuild recopy record region reheat regrow rely fill jazz off pass buzz doll sniff hiss yell fizz chess Jeff
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