Destination Post Card - Every student in this class will be able to read every sight word on the 100 word list by the end of first grade!
Mavens, Connectors and Salesmen
After reading the summaries of chapter two from The Tipping Point, by Malcom Gladwell, I came to understand the different roles of mavens, connectors and salesmen in the process of the spread of information and trends. Mavens are people who accumulate knowledge and are recognized by others as having truthful and reliable information. When I think about Mavens in my own personal network, I think about a literacy interventionist at my school. She has been at my school for eight years and has a background in special education. She has also been trained in Reading Recovery and LLI approaches to literacy intervention. Whenever I have questions about the validity of approaches, I can go to her and know that she has a wealth of knowledge in the area of literacy intervention. When I think about connectors , I think about our tech team. We have an incredible IT guy who works hard to support our school community. He is always seeking out opportunities to share out the wonderful things happenin...
The playful characters and your challenge to think wanna be 'like the big kids' definitely speaks to the elephant while your structured objective certainly grabbed the part of us who wants accountability, and what an amazing bright spots! I think your destination postcard could have everyone (kids, parents, colleagues, jumping on board to this destination.
ReplyDeleteThis is a really great postcard that shows how you'll engage the different aspects of rider, path, and elephant! I love the way it is broken down and that the end goal is not only to learn a concrete number of words, but to also bring those words into the 2nd grade!
ReplyDeleteI love this and am impressed by your artistic talent. Your destination reminds me much of the teacher in Chapter 3 of Switch who called her students "scholars" and told them they'd be 3rd grade readers. It is highly motivating for our young readers and writers to see themselves as such, and looks like you're well on that track. Well done!
ReplyDeleteWow! This awesome in more ways than one! You have great artistic talent and made this postcard so fun! In all seriousness, you took a fairly "uninteresting" goal and turned into something that seems so exciting! I imagine that your readers would be much more motivated. Have you used any of this yet with your students?
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