Text Talk Reflection
I really enjoyed the text talk activity that we did with Dr. Ari. I learned a lot of new strategies to use when I am in the classroom. I thought that it was very useful to read the text first, then show the pictures and ask questions. Often teachers will show the pictures to the children while they are reading, and sometimes you will see children focusing more on the pictures than on what you are reading. I like how Dr. Ari asked questions throughout the book. This also assures that they are paying attention to what you are reading. Another good reason for asking questions is because when you are reading a book to your students, they can sometimes get lost or confused, and I think that it is a great idea to pause and make sure everyone is up to speed. It is also a great way to find out their thoughts about what is happening in the story. It was also very useful to put sticky notes with reminders on the pages that he wanted to talk about with the class. This will help a lot when I begin reading to my students. This way I will not have to develop questions for the students on the spot, but can have them already written down. Even if I know the questions I will ask, it is still a good reminder just in case I forgot what I was going to ask the students.
Overall, I really enjoyed the story and got a lot of useful information from this experience. I hope that I can use what I learned with Dr. Ari to develop my own text talk lesson. I hope mine is useful to my students, as well as myself.
Image by Google.com
2 Comments »
{ RSS feed for comments on this post} · { TrackBack URI }
anmccall Said:
on September 9, 2009 at 12:51 pm
I thought the text talk reading was cery helpful as well. Omer did such a good job of reading the book and applying the text talk concepts.
heatheryar Said:
on September 14, 2009 at 7:05 pm
The test talk lesson was enjoyable. That is not something that I can usually say about some of the things that we do in class. Omer did a great job showing some of his personality while he read the book. I agree that the method of reading first and showing pictures later is very helpful…However, let me tell you that kids get mad when you don’t show them the picture immidiently, or at least my kids did.