The goal of reading this biography this week was to get students thinking about determining importance in their reading. An important comprehension skill to have while reading is being able to pick out those things that are most important to you. We talked about what determine means, what important means, and we practiced highlighting those things that were most important about Disney in the introduction and first chapter of the book. Students started by thinking every sentence was important, but we discussed how those things that were truly important about Disney were those that made him stand out above the rest, those things that made him different.
After practicing determining importance in each following chapter, students have become quite good at finding those things that stand out about Walt Disney. By Friday we learned that he drove an ambulance in World War I, was a smoker, dropped out of high school, lived in Chicago, Kansas City, and Marceline, and loved animation- movies made from multiple cartoon drawings implying movement. We will be reading more about Walt next week and continue on to other Who Was books like Louis Armstrong, The Beatles, and Pablo Picasso afterwards.
For those interested in donating to our classroom library, Who Was books are a great reading level for third grade students and provide lots of interesting information on various historical figures. The books are less than $5 and we would be interested in the following titles:
Who Was Mozart?
Who Was Abraham Lincoln?
Who Was Elvis Presley?
Who Was Albert Einstein?
Who Was Annie Oakley?
Who Was Anne Frank?
Who Was Helen Keller?
Who Was MLK Jr.?
Who Was King Tut?
Who Was Harry Houdini?
Who Was Sacajawea?
Who Was Queen Elizabeth?
Who Was Jackie Robinson?
Who Was JFK?
Who Was Obama?
Who Was Ronald Reagan?
Who Was Johnny Appleseed?
Who Was Maria Tallchief?
Who Was Claude Monet?
Who Was Babe Ruth?
Thank you in advance.
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