Class 2OL

If you came into our room during our read aloud time, you would think you had walked into a third, maybe a fourth grade classroom! The students of Class 2OL are having amazing conversations about our read aloud selection, The Chalk Box Kid by Clyde Bulla. As we read, we are paying attention to our questions. We call them our wonderings, because it’s what we are wondering about the book.

In this picture, you can see the excellent questions the kids generated after looking at the cover, reading the blurb on the back and looking at the table of contents.

After we read a chapter, students record and share their thinking in their Reading Notebooks.

We expect that the students will begin to adopt this strategy of asking questions during their independent reading. We are exploring this strategy in fiction and nonfiction texts.