Rich Conversations

Anticipation for the rich conversation!  
One of my students is curious about fairy tales and folk tales.  We have read many pieces of informational text, so moving into traditional literature will be a great new genre!

In our sessions, we unlock the mysteries that written text brings to students.  This means word study, writing, and deeper diving into comprehension.  When everything we could be curious about is open for exploring, the walls created by fear of failure crumble.  Discovery is for all of us!  I am the guide; the learner makes the discoveries.  That leads me to the anticipation!

So, I've chosen a tale that is new for my student, Three Billy Goats Gruff.  When I shared the title, it sounded interesting to her because it was unfamiliar...and she likes goats.  We have already discovered that base words can end in double letters and this tale is full of them!  We have also just discovered our first trigraph, three letters or graphemes that write one phoneme or sound.  This tale has a trigraph just sitting there, waiting to be discovered.  Ahhh, then the rich conversation about the characters and the conflict.  I wonder if there is a lesson that these characters are learning.  More rich conversation that can lead to a theme.  Finally, the elements or ingredients that a story contains to be in this special genre called, Traditional Literature!

The anticipation!  I cannot wait until our session!   The next post will share her discoveries!  Get ready...because there is always a discovery that I did not anticipate!  Just the thought makes me smile!