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Using Schema While Reading

10/13/2011

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Good readers use their prior knowledge to engage with a text.  By engaging their own personal schema's, good readers are able to better understand and enjoy what they are reading.

Today's lesson on using schema began with a read aloud from Patricia Polacco's The Keeping Quilt.  
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While reading the story out loud, I modeled how I make personal connections:
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After sharing how I use my OWN schema to make reading meaningful, the Magical Minds had time to sit with their own books and write their own connections.

For homework tonight, the Magical Minds will use the following guide sheet to record their thinking while reading.  We are focusing on using the language of making connections, thus the Magical Minds are asked to use sentence starters, such as, "When I read...it reminded me of..." or "The picture about...made me think about..."
Using Schema Connection Language
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    Erin Mahollitz is an international teacher teaching 2nd Grade in San Francisco, CA. 

    She specializes in inquiry-based instruction, technology integration and social & emotional education.

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