The Students Become Teachers - Applying and Teaching What We Know!

The students are actively applying before, during, and after reading comprehension strategies, vocabulary development, and test-taking strategies learned throughout the year by consciously thinking about what they are reading. Instead of being passive readers who just read the words, they are transitioning to active readers who interact with text.

The students have learned multiple test-taking and reading comprehension strategies this year. Through active engagement, leveled-learning, differentiation based on data and informal observations, application, flexible seating, and small and large group instruction, they have participated in multiple reading comprehension activities to aid in the navigation of fiction and non-fiction text across multiple genres.

They are currently blending the skills learned to demonstrate their knowledge as holistic, active readers, who predict, make connections, infer, synthesize information, visualize, identify the main idea, form opinions, analyze the author’s tone, and determine important information.

The students are creating Google Presentations to demonstrate their knowledge of strategies, as well as providing real-world application from their studies, online portfolios, and classroom anchor charts. Through the creation of their presentations, they are transitioning from student to teacher. They will teach other students about the power of interacting with text.

The students were given the opportunity to choose both the strategies they have learned and applied, as well as the strategies they continue to practice during classroom activities. They are using their own life experiences to demonstrate understanding of the strategies.

The students have online portfolios, where they will continuously reflect on their learning. They are also using a rubric as a guide. The students will revise their ideas and receive feedback from peer and teacher conferencing.

The Google Presentations will be uploaded to their online portfolios and presented to the class. The 7th grade students will become the teachers by demonstrating their knowledge as “masters” for students in 6th grade English classes. They will also be included on our blog...stay tuned!