Visualizing+from+The+Making+Meaning+Curriculum

UNIT 3 FROM MAKING MEANING: VISUALIZING

__A Tree Is Nice__ follow the lesson as it is in the book
 * __UNIT 3 WEEK 1: DAY 1__**

Read all of __A Tree is Nice__.
 * __DAY 2__**

Have students visualize each page and then show students the page after you read each page. Give them a sheet to sketch their visualizing. [|A Tree Is Nice Visualizing.doc]

Students should be on their desks with pencils and the paper. Teacher should be reading and standing.

Text Talk Wednesdays are Text Talk Days. We focus on vocabulary and informally talk to students about the comprehension strategy we are working on.
 * __DAY 3__**

//LEARNING TARGET://
 * __DAY 4__**
 * I can take turns talking to and listening to my partner.
 * I can visualize a story in my mind so that I can enjoy the story and understand it even better.

//PREPARATION:// __Brothers__
 * Cut paper into fours
 * Students will be at their desks for the reading
 * three copies of poem for teacher to use when circulating around the room
 * copies of visualzing recording sheet for teachers
 * Record recording sheet grades in Snapgrades
 * Book: __Fathers, Mothers, Sisters,__

//CONNECT:// For the entire week we have been working on Visualizing. Today we are going to continue our work with visualizing. Visualizing is one of the strategies that good readers use. Visualizing helps you make mental pictures in your mind and helps you understand the story even more.

//LESSON// > >
 * Read students “My Baby Brother” from __Fathers, Mothers, Sisters, Brothers.__
 * Introduce the book. Explain that the book is a book of poems about families and the poem that you’ll be reading today is called “My Baby Brother.”
 * “I will read the poem aloud twice. Close your eyes and make a mental picture of the baby brother as you listen.” Be sure to read the poem aloud twice, slowly and clearly, pausing between readings.
 * Now I would like you to do a “Turn & Talk” with the person who sits next to you in your desk area. I want you to answer this question: “How do you picture the baby brother?”
 * “Now I am going to give you paper so that you can go ahead and draw what you visualized. You can use crayons and colored pencils. Please work quietly during this time.

//TEACHERS INTERVENTION//
 * At the time teachers should be circulating around the room. You should reread the poem for individual students who need it.
 * You have a recording sheet and 6-7 students who you should be taking notes on. Please takes notes on your attached recording sheet and hand to Annie at the end of the lesson.

[|Visualizing Recording Sheet.doc]