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Activity
5 ~~ Opportunities to Interact Socially (30 minutes)
Objective:
Recognize opportunities for your students to interact socially with books.
Context: One of Dr. Gambrell's research
findings relates to the positive effect on reading motivation when literacy
activities are coupled with social interaction. Teachers can therefore
capitalize on their students' natural desire for social interaction by
providing multiple opportunities to be "social with books".
You may want to review two previously mentioned
methods from Activity 3, Book Talks and
Reader's Theater, and note that they both
allow for social interaction.
With Book Talks, once the teacher has presented
enough book talks, students begin to internalize the fundamentals of a
book talk and can begin to do their own in class, in other classes at
their grade level, and particularly in the lower grades. You can also
make use of the Interactive Read Aloud, as well as students reading aloud
to others. Another idea for social activities involving books is to tap
into the multiple intelligences of your students. You may want to revisit
the list of multiple intelligences in Activity 1. You can also read more
about multiple intelligences by referring to Howard Gardner's book (listed
in the references cited in Activity 1).
Activity: Keeping
in mind all of these ideas for social interaction in literacy activities,
answer the following two questions.
Question 1
What are the current opportunities
for your students to interact socially in book related activities?
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Question 2
What other types of interactions
would you like to implement? |
When you're finished, please proceed to Activity
6 |