
January's Book-of-the-Month, as is the tradition, was an alphabet book around our theme - M is for Melody: A Musical Alphabet. The strategy that we learned was called "six word stories" - a story told in six words - no more, no less. The idea was to learn to write/ think concisely and to summarize. To teach the strategy the principal gave groups of teachers a picture and asked them to come up with six words to describe the picture.

The idea for the Book-of-the-Month strategies is that they can be learned and practiced by teachers as part of our professional development and then used in the classroom. This month the learning was obvious as kindergarten teachers Rachel Happ and Julie Johnson took the strategy back to their classroom and then represented the results on their standard-based bulletin board.


We saw a man sleigh riding.

An old house that is busted.

The dog played with the man.

A lovely beach and a bird
It is always interesting to see how grade levels from Kindergarten through fifth grade will take a strategy and use it in their classroom with their children. Kindergarten says this strategy is a keeper!
2 comments:
Is there aplace to view all books of the month and materials for teaching with them?
You can view all of the Chets Creek Books-of-the-Month and our supporting information at http://ccebom.wikispaces.com. It's a great resource.
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