There was a great article in the Redmond Reporter about Early Achievers – take a look!
http://www.redmond-reporter.com/news/201299581.html
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Thursday, April 11, 2013
Simple Reminder
Remember the idea of tying a string around your finger to help you remember something? At a recent reflective practice group we did a similar thing with wood beads.
In the CLASS assessment, the “Concept Development” section has some key practices to do with children to help them develop reasoning skills. Asking prompting questions, predicting, comparing, brainstorming and relating to real life may not be things you are used to doing on a regular basis.
In order to remind ourselves about incorporating these skills into our interactions with children, we make wood bead bracelets with the key first letters of each word on 5 of the beads. Whenever the bracelet passes your line of vision, be reminded to incorporate something deeper into your interactions.
Give it a try!
Questions
Predict
Compare
Brainstorm
Relate to real life
Keep The Conversation Going!
Having deep, rich conversations with children helps them develop language skills, conversational skills and reasoning skills that will help them be successful in school.
Once the conversation begins, you can keep it going. See it like a tennis match. The ball keeps going over the net between both of you many times like a tennis volley. So often, our talk with children is just a serve and a return – you say something and they answer. Challenge yourself to long volleys instead!
Questions that get children to think are great ways to get a conversation started. Here is a list that came from a recent reflective practice group exercise:
Open ended questions/starters
What would happen if…
What do you think this book might be about?
Do you need anything else?
What do you need to get started?
How does that work?
How did that happen?
What is another way we could do that?
Can you think of…
How will you start?
What is your plan?
What’s happening?
How could you get that out?
How do you think we could fix that?
Want do you think happens next?
What could we do?
What do you think made this happen?
What should we put in this space?
How do you think…
What do you think about…
What made you think of that?
What are some ways…
How could we…
What else could we…
What else can you think of to…
What is another way to…
What is another way we could…
Do you have any ideas about…
What ideas can you think of for…
I wonder if there are other ways – what do you think?
How could we figure that out?
What would we need to…
Help me figure out…
What are your best ideas about…
I bet you have an idea about…
I need help figuring out…
What would be the best way to…
How many ways could we…
What are some other ideas about this?
How do you think we could…
Why do you think that this…
What do you think?
How did you figure that out?
Tell me how…
Tell me when…
Tell me why…
Keep it going with simple prompts: And?….. And then what?….. Then?….. What happened next?.....
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