Schoolwide's Lesson of the Week: Reading Patricia Polacco (1/14/10)

 

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Dear Community,

Subject: Schoolwide's Lesson of the Week: Reading Patricia Polacco (1/14/10)

Do you read aloud to your students? How do you use dialogue or conversation to conjure lifelike memories in memoir study? In this week's lesson, literacy consultant Sarah Cordova uses an interactive read-aloud of Patricia Polacco's My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother to drive home the importance of conversation and reading like a writer.

Learn how to:

• Use family conversation to develop good writing;
• Help students "read like a writer" and understand how dialogue makes writing more memorable and lifelike; and
• Engage students in storytelling with the voices from their own lives.
  
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Highlights

Lesson Title: Interactive Read-Aloud of My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother by Patricia Polacco

Subject: Writing Workshop / Reading Like a Writer - Interactive Read-Aloud

Audience: Grades 2-6

Description: Writers use conversation/dialogue to conjure concrete memories of people and places. Sarah Cordova explains how teaching students to "read like a writer" offers several teaching points, from punctuation choices to how to evoke mood and emotion.

Share: Create a common tool for your entire school or school district by sharing the Lesson of the Week and using it to provide consistency. Please contact me at ldavies@schoolwide.com and I will be glad to assist you with this process.


Thanks so much for your participation. Read. Learn. Enjoy!


Sincerely,
Ladi Davies
VP of Educational Solutions
Schoolwide, Inc.