Book Club Presentations: Day 3

In class on Thursday, October 24^th, I was the student for both presentations.  The first presentation was on the book, “Write Like This”.  I thought they did a pretty good job overall explaining everything.  It felt a little rushed, but I realize they did have a limited amount of time.  I think the best part of this activity was finding the different pictures within the one big picture.  I also liked the activity with the poem, however, we were rushed through it and weren’t given a lot of time to think and collaborate within our groups.  I would use both of these techniques in my classroom to get my students to realize that they need to read things more than once to fully understand it and would continue to practice this technique with their readings. 

The second group that presented had read the book, “Nonfiction Matters”.  They did a great job giving an overview of the book and it really caught my attention.  Their activity was based on the K.W.L chart (what we know, want to know, and what we learned).  This was very similar to some things I came across in the book I read, which was based in an ELL classroom, so it was good to see it in another setting as well.  I had fun with this activity, learning about sharks, and would definitely use this in my future classroom.  Overall the day went well and I learned a lot.