Several
weeks ago we learned our second reading strategy, schema. Schema is your
background or prior knowledge of a given subject. We introduced the strategy by
having the girls share with one another some of the qualities that make them
unique (born in Georgia, love to play the violin, has a little brother, etc.). We
compared the brain to a lint roller. As the lint roller rolls along, it
picks up little pieces of everything just like our brains pick up tidbits of
knowledge all day long!
The girls jotted down their unique schema on
little pieces of paper and stuck their schema to the lint roller strips. The
girls had great fun thinking of their own schema.
Last week we listened to the song Rachel Delevoryas, and then we made all kinds of connections. We made text-to-self connections, text-to-text
connections and text-to-world connections.
The girls wrote their connections on sticky notes and posted them in the
correct circle.
Ask your daughter about the
connections she is making in her independent reading.
