Monitor and Clarify --> STOP!
Do you understand what you're reading?
Do you need to reread something? figure out a word's meaning? ask a question? make a prediction? visualize the story in your mind?
The second graders are asking themselves just that this month. They LOVE reading (in fact, I would call them "voracious readers"), and now we know good readers need to stop and check for understanding.
Why would we read a book if we don't understand it or remember it once we're finished? :)
Recently in Math, we learned about area- how much is covered in a shape? We set out to find the area using "1-inch tiles" (or in our case, Cheez-it crackers). We laid them out on the rectangles and counted up how many square tiles each rectangle's area measured.
Mmm! Math can be tasty sometimes!
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