Burnaby.Engagement.Early Learners.Feb.2011

Engaging Our Early Learners

Burnaby District DayFeb. 25th, 2011Faye Brownlie

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Engagement

ChoiceVoice

Self-regulation

ModelGuided practiceIndependent practiceIndependent application

Pearson & Gallagher (1983)

Connect: from pictures

“How is he feeling?”“How can you tell?”

Little Beauty - Anthony BrowneCandlewick Press, 2008

Character Grab Bag

• Put 4-5 artifacts of a character into a grab bag.• Pull out one artifact at a time and have students

sketch how this might be used in the story.• Students sketch again after each artifact is pulled

out. Share the developing theories.• Students can write after all the artifacts have been

shared – a story for this character OR can work in a group to create who this character is and what their life is like

• Read the story.

Observing Explorations in a Full-day KNicole Daneault and Debra

VanderwoodCoquitlam

• Review from yesterday– What worked?– What would you change for today?

• What is your plan for today? What will you need?• Language

– “What should I notice?”– “tools and materials” – not toys

• Review of today– How did explorations go today?– ‘Have you a plan in your head?”

• How to ask the question so the child develops the answer…

Math Centres – gr. 1/2Michelle Hikada

• 4 groups• 1 with Michelle, working on graphing (direct

teaching, new material)• 1 making patterns with different materials

(practice)• 1 making patterns with stickers (practice)• 1 graphing in partners (practice)

• With your partner, choose a bucket of materials and make a bar graph.

• Ask (and answer) at least 3 questions about your graph.

• Make another graph with a different material.

Online literacy videos

• www.sd72.bc.ca Literacy Videos• Clustering from Text• Squiggles• It’s All in the Bag

References

• Grand Conversations, Thoughtful Responses – Brownlie (2005). Portage and Main Press.

• Student Diversity, 2nd ed (2006) – Brownlie and Schnellert. Pembroke Publishers

• It’s All about Thinking – Humanities, Social Studies and English (2009) – Brownlie and Schnellert. Portage and Main Press.

• Assessment Instruction of ESL Learners – Brownlie, Feniak, McCarthy. Portage and Main Press.