Chapter 4,
Chapter 4 integrates many strategies in ways of boosting comprehension of literature. Chapter 4 is about assessing and encouraging the reader to achieve better comprehension and to educate teachers to anticipate their students’ needs, and generate discussions about the material. I believe it helps to teach how the cultural diversity needs to be handled in every classroom.
ELIJAH of BUXTON written by Christopher Paul CurtisElijah was the first free baby born in Buxton, Canada and the first person there who had never been owned by a slave master. Christopher Paul Curtis confronts powerful issues in his books. Racism, family, love, and hope are recurring themes in novels such as the Newbery Honor-winning The Watsons Go To Birmingham—1963, Bud, Not Buddy, for which he was awarded both the Coretta Scott King Award and Newbery Medal, and Elijah of Buxton, also a Newbery Honor winner and Coretta Scott King Award winner.
http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/collection.jsp?id=49 check it out!!!!This website has Lesson plans, discussion guides, and extension activitieshttp://www.powells.com/authors/curtis.htm is an interview with Christopher Paul CurtisThe author wants to help people understand our differences by writing powerful literature that opens up discussions. In his books, Curtis has incorporated Bloom’s Taxonomy in questions he provides in the back of the book.
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Thank you for posting websites that we can go to. I think it is very important for teachers to work together and help each other. I know for myself that it is always useful when another person helps me or gives me suggestions.
ReplyDeleteGood job Lori! It seems that you learned the importance of comprehension as well as the part that it plays in the scheme or reading.
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