Unit 3

2-5-8 Activities

8 pt

2 Thinking Maps for IRIS Pals Reading Strategy Grades 2-6

5 pt

2 pt

I chose to do First Grade and I used the McGraw-Hill Reading text book. I tested a sample from Unit 3. The Lexile for this book is 460. According to Frye’s Readability Level, the X equals 137 and the Y is 10.8. On the grid the grade level is between first and second grade.

Crew: Check in and Support Video:

The idea of a “crew” makes it very consistent and helps maintain relationships. They share their problems and academic progress with their peers. They attend this for at least 30 minutes a day. Kids get credit for the crew and it helps them share goals. This would be a hard thing to incorporate into a single classroom. However, I could take this idea and adapt it. One way to incorporate this would be to do something like morning meetings. During the morning meetings the students could be open about their struggles either personally or academically. We could also really practice goal setting. It would be good for each student to have a goal and then we work all year to try to meet it.

School as a Living Museum:

Students are able to communicate what they are learning. It helps to “show off” the students. It helps encourage students and motivate them. It is pretty much student led. This idea really makes the students work harder. Symmetry, repetition, and surprise are the three main elements from this video when it comes to art. It adds a lot of diversity to the school.

This would be a really cool idea to incorporate into my future classroom. If I have students work really hard on performance based projects, then I should be more than willing to show it off. I want them to feel accomplished and proud of the work that they do. Not only will I display their work in my classroom, but I will also display it in the hallway to brighten up the school. I can collaborate with other teachers and we can work to start a living museum like then one mentioned in the video. This would really give the students some ownership of their work.