I was able to watch a periscope about a week ago with Hope King's fantastic idea about Super Mario. Basically you can do this with ANY content!!
I used it for reading. I printed off passages from NewsELA and then put together a packet with reading comprehension skills. We had level 1 which was asking and answering questions, level 2 summarizing, level 3 authors purpose and so on. Day one my kids had a blast! They came in excited and ready to go. They dove into those passage and worked so hard. I am so proud of how ready they are for 3rd grade.
The 2nd day we did the same activity with different rules. They had to have deeper questions. They are had to explain all of their thinking. They had to read more difficult passage's. They were FRUSTRATED. It took them 45 minutes just to ask and answer questions because my co-teacher and I kept sending them back asking them to clarify their questions or give better answers. It was awesome because they didn't quit. They buckled down with their partners and read and reread their articles looking for information. I was so impressed with 2nd grade.
I can't believe how well they did! I love that they were so engaged and that they were ready to do something difficult and do it well.
It is the end of the year and I have been incredibly blessed by this group. I cannot wait until next year and doing second grade again.
Year 4 is a wrap!!
Love,
Stephanie
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