Comment on Rachel's Post (3/29)

Yo Rachel,

Thanks for your response to the reading. I think it's cool how much your CT uses prediction, both before and after reading activities. My CT is like yours in that she likes to use prediction before reading to get the kids invested in the story. It's interesting that you did that with Green Eggs and Ham - I would have been worried that some students would know the ending and spoil it for the rest of the class. Did anything like that happen? My CT is different than yours, however, in that she does not typically use predictions after reading. I think this was particularly useful for your kindergartners, since the concepts of past and future are still developing for them. In general, making predictions outside of the reading seems beneficial since it connects the act of reading a story to living life (we often don't know what's coming next!). I hope to bring in the use of predictions both before and after subsequent reading lessons.

Dave