“Two things I notice when I look at the data I brought today are…”
So, I forgot to take a photograph of my word wall yesterday, but here are some thoughts related to what's happening with it:
1. Students are FINALLY getting really interested in adding to it after a couple of weeks. Also, what started as an interest in finding words only when I'm reading out loud has turned into an interest in adding words they find in other places.
2. Students seem to be mostly adding words that they don't know the meanings of - thus curiosity = "what's this mean?". This is kind of cool, actually, and I'm hoping this will push students into using the dictionary to look up the words and discover more about them.
3. Yesterday, the word "fascist" appeared on the word wall. I asked the student where he had heard the word (or read it) and he replied that he was reading a book about world history. I then asked him if he knew what the word meant and he said he didn't. So I told him that it's a political philosophy (this was a full-class discussion) and suddenly, the word "philosophy" appeared on the board!
“One thing that surprises me about these data is …”
Nothing really. I love the range of words the students are posting - engagement, impeccable, Fascist, seismic, epicenter...
No comments:
Post a Comment