Independent Work by Anne Weisenberg https://padlet.com/awhtmtns/knzbg26fgpe2mwgn What were 5 things you learned about Close Reading and Spelling from the Videos you watched? en-us 2021-03-12 21:53:07 UTC 2023-03-26 21:45:40 UTC hello@padlet.com Toni Welch https://padlet.com/awhtmtns/knzbg26fgpe2mwgn/wish/2529543763 What I learned about Close Reading & Spelling:
1.  Close reading is an activity used to figure out what the text is saying.  There are questions that should be asked - What does the text say?  How does it say it?  What does it mean?
2.  After watching the videos, I was able to get a better understanding of what close reading was and how it could be used in the classroom.   It is a good activity to encourage students to take their time and not be so quick to come up with an answer, without really digging deeper and analyzing what it is they are reading.  The video on the Olympics was a prime example of this.  Students thought that the main topic of the story was women in the Olympics and stopped looking any further for another idea.    
3.  I learned how important it is to model for the students what is expected in the Close Reading lesson.
4.  I also learn that it is important for the teacher to take it slow and be willing to make changes as needed - not move on until the students are where they need to be with the lesson.  
5. In teaching spelling, there is a systematic way that it should be done. It is important to provide daily spelling strategies and instruction, the words should be studied in reading and writing, the teacher should teach a variety of study strategies so that all students get the most out of the instruction, students should study spelling patterns and all spelling should be connected to writing, reading and thinking!]]> 2023-03-23 23:06:22 UTC https://padlet.com/awhtmtns/knzbg26fgpe2mwgn/wish/2529543763 Sara Rodriguez sborders5_1 https://padlet.com/awhtmtns/knzbg26fgpe2mwgn/wish/2530797336 1. One thing I learned from the spelling video was how to use manipulatives and phonics to help students learn how to spell. Students used the manipulatives and moved them above the line for each sound of the letter. This helped students to manipulate each sound of the word and identify which letter should go where. 

2. A second thing  I learned from the spelling video was how to help students spell words that have unexpected letters. For example, when students were spelling the word “have” the teacher had an empty spot after the students sounded out and wrote the letters “hav”. The teacher asked students, “What could we add to make the word look right?” The students knew they needed to add an e. She then asked students for examples of other words that have an e at the end to help the word look right. 

3. I learned that close reading is about getting a deep comprehension of the meaning of a passage. This happens in stages as the students reread the passage multiple times diving deeper into the text with each reading. 

4. I learned that when doing a close reading teachers shouldn't do a preview of the text. This way students form their own questions and answers to gain confidence. Teachers can give students small details but it isn't required and there shouldn't be too much information given away. 

5. I learned that when doing a close reading teachers should ask students for details about the text and require they find evidence supporting those details. By requiring students to give evidence to support details we’re prompting close reading and deeper comprehension of the text. 
]]> 2023-03-24 18:24:33 UTC https://padlet.com/awhtmtns/knzbg26fgpe2mwgn/wish/2530797336 Sahira Khan https://padlet.com/awhtmtns/knzbg26fgpe2mwgn/wish/2530933663 What I learned about Close Reading & Spelling:

1. Close Reading is a careful analytical approach to understanding the deeper meaning and structures of a text.

2. Know what background knowledge students have. Looking at qualitative and quantitative measures the text offers will inform what texts to consider as worthy of deep discussion and pondering deeper level questions that are not obviously planted in the text. Readers make inferences and make sense of the purpose.

3. Model "Close Reading" to students. It is important for students to see how Close Reading is done because it is more analytical in nature and students would not magically know how to do a close read without support from an expert teacher.

4. For spelling and watching the video with the teacher and her primary grade students, spelling should be taught in a systematic and explicit manner. The teacher modeled it and had students use alphabet tiles to make words. Before this, she made it a phonemic task where it was counters and sounds (she was demonstrating the word "am") then she went on to form words with the added component of phonics. Spelling has both phonemic awareness and phonics used in conjunction. To ensure students understood the patterns of spelling, she asked if it looked right (she did the word have). Spelling is best learned using multisensory techniques. 

5. Close Reading is not about previewing and pre-teaching vocabulary. Instead, its purpose is to have students annotate important things in the text, make contextual clues about the meaning of unfamiliar words, reread multiple times to first read, then read to understand and markup, and finally make inferences by synthesizing what the author wants the reader to know. ]]> 2023-03-24 21:42:21 UTC https://padlet.com/awhtmtns/knzbg26fgpe2mwgn/wish/2530933663 Raymond Lamzon https://padlet.com/awhtmtns/knzbg26fgpe2mwgn/wish/2532068441 1. In close reading, it is effective if we start at primary grades with short texts that they can observe and analyze.
2. It is important to read the texts at least twice.
3. It is important for the teacher to guide the students and ask questions when they do the close reading together.
4.There are different spelling stages, such as letter name alphabetic stage, within word pattern stage, and syllable affixes stage.
5. Three systems to spell correctly are: alphabet, pattern, and meaning.]]> 2023-03-26 21:45:40 UTC https://padlet.com/awhtmtns/knzbg26fgpe2mwgn/wish/2532068441