On March 8th Jillian came in to my classroom and watched me teach a lesson on inferences while reading a text. I asked Jillian to do a shadowing form on my above level student to help with my inquiry. When talking to her about my lesson, I learned that the type of reading I did with the class did not work out well. The students chorally read the passages. I agree that this was not the best way to do it because some students were not reading at all because they could not keep up and one student was reading way to loud and almost a full sentence ahead of the class. Next time I do a lesson like this, I will have my on and above level students read quietly at their desk while I pull a group of my below level students to read aloud with me at the “rainbow” table in the back of the room. This will allow me to keep an eye on all the readers and make sure that the below level students are reading and understanding the passage. I did like having the students use their reading journals to write down the words they did not know. This gave us a chance to go over them at the end of each paragraph. The students better understood the paragraph once they knew the definition of the words, helping them comprehend what they were reading. I was very thankful for my CT stepping in during this lesson when one of the students wanted to know about how it was possible for us to all start out as eggs. She told them it was nature and left it at that. I moved on in the reading and they just forgot about it from then on. Overall, I feel that this lesson went well and that the students got some practice with inferencing while reading. I do, however, feel that because this was a whole group lesson, that some students did not get the help that they needed and that they will still have a hard time making inferences. Next time, I do a lesson like this, I would like to work with a small group of students I feel are not understanding and give them the extra help that they need.
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