What questions do you have about envisionment building and how it is implemented in the classroom? What roles do you see the teachers in this video clip assuming? How do these classrooms portray Langer’s four tenets of envisionment building (students are life-long envisionment builders, questions are central to the literary experience, students use class to build on the understandings and interpretations they arrived with, and the assumption that multiple interpretations are valuable)? Give specific examples. What elements of the envisionment-building classroom occur in your own practice? What changes to your instruction would you like to make to bring it closer to this model? Link to Video: https://www.learner.org/series/engaging-with-literature-library-a-video-library-grades-3-5/signposts/?jwsource=cl (Links to an external site.) Voices in the Conversation Overview: A visit to Katherine Bomer’s fifth-grade class showcases techniques for involving all students in a classroom read-aloud and the ensuing discussion that follows. Ms. Bomer respectfully models, supports, and encourages conversations among students on the text The Color of My Words by Lynn Joseph. Questions to Consider: *You do not need to submit your responses 1) What kinds of support would your students need to be successful participants in literature conversations? 2) Are there modeling or support strategies that Ms. Bomer uses that would work with your students? 3) What read-aloud literature selections might be particularly appealing to your students? Video Link: https://www.learner.org/series/engaging-with-literature-library-a-video-library-grades-3-5/voices-in-the-conversation/?jwsource=cl Grade 3 Signature Lesson Plan: The signature assignment for this course is to create a Grade 3 grade lesson plan. Your lesson plan is to be based on a children’s book of your choice and CCSS foundational skills. You will design the lesson and present it in a video in the following weeks to come. Please review the following requirements and elements of a lesson plan. Before you can present a lesson, you need a written plan. Below you will find a video for review and the lesson plan template. Review the video below, complete the lesson plan template, and common core standards websites (in the lesson plan template as a hyperlink). video link: https://youtu.be/bJL6aVmEuZw
