The Diary of a Worm

(This story time video ia 30 minutes in length....I will have to learn how to edit with my new camera.)

Third graders listened to the Diary of a Worm. We identified vocabulary words and talked about how they were used in the story. Ways to figure out unknown words in a story include looking for clues in the pictures or the sentences around the word. Students can also look it up in the dictionary or ask someone else.

Good readers also ask questions before starting a story. Then they think about the story while reading. Teachers call this monitoring as you read. At the end we played a "Remembering Game" with stop signs. Everytime Mrs. Peabody became mixed up while retelling the story, the students raised their stop signs to help her get back on tract. Lastly, we reviewed the elements of a story with the display board called "Dancing with the Stars of the Story". Children each had their own stars and placed their thumbs on the Who-What-When-Where-Why as we discussed these parts.

Talking about reading aloud.....

I had the best time today sharing with future teachers about the importance of reading aloud.