212 Reading In Action

One of the standards groups for the past 9 weeks in 4th grade was "Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers."  At the start of the 9 weeks, the teacher reported that students asked questions such as:

• Who are the characters?
• What is the setting?
• Where did the dog go?

After 9 weeks of instruction on how to look at text, how to determine the questions they have as they are reading, and how to write their own questions to be answered while reading to allow them to better comprehend the story, these are some of the many questions this group formulated during yesterday's 212 class.  The teacher is OVERJOYED with their progress and it showed in this round of Star scores.  Our scores are growing!!