{"id":13223,"date":"2018-09-20T12:59:16","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T17:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/5badbfa87a.nxcli.io\/mts-elementary\/?p=13223"},"modified":"2018-09-20T12:59:16","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T17:59:16","slug":"growing-readers-and-writers-at-mts-elementary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mtcs.org\/mts-elementary\/growing-readers-and-writers-at-mts-elementary\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing readers and writers at MTS Elementary!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13224 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/mtcs.org\/mts-elementary\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/09\/Elementary-reader-web-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"Growing readers and writers at MTS Elementary!\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mtcs.org\/mts-elementary\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/09\/Elementary-reader-web-200x134.jpg 200w, https:\/\/mtcs.org\/mts-elementary\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/09\/Elementary-reader-web-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mtcs.org\/mts-elementary\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/09\/Elementary-reader-web-400x268.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mtcs.org\/mts-elementary\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/09\/Elementary-reader-web-600x401.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mtcs.org\/mts-elementary\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/09\/Elementary-reader-web-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mtcs.org\/mts-elementary\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/09\/Elementary-reader-web-800x535.jpg 800w, https:\/\/mtcs.org\/mts-elementary\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/09\/Elementary-reader-web.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>I recently had the chance to share a work in progress with the 3rd grade and 5th grade at MTSE, and I&#8217;m glad I did!\u00a0 When I shared my almost-completed picture book, Bare Feet, with Mrs. Anderson&#8217;s 3rd grade class, they listened with rapt attention and were very engaged.\u00a0 One of the students yelled out a word that he expected in one spot, and it was different than what I had, but it was a better word choice, so I have changed it.\u00a0 The students had many astute observations about what was going on in the story and how the character was feeling.<\/p>\n<p>I also had a chance to ask a group of 5th graders about a particular page that I was having a difficult time finalizing the text.\u00a0 I read the story to the class and asked them how they would write that page &#8211; since it is a children&#8217;s book, the text on that page is only two sentences.\u00a0 I was surprised and pleased that the students worked to incorporate elements from the overall story into the page, and some of them used a grammar point that we have been studying, coordinating conjunctions, as a way to provide variation in one of the repeating sentences.<\/p>\n<p>Seeing students think and react to an original text tells me that they have a huge capacity for critical thinking and interpretation.\u00a0 I look forward to bringing more opportunities for this kind of thinking into the classroom.<\/p>\n<p>Sheila McMahon, Teacher, MTCS Board Member and author<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently had the chance to share a work in progress with the 3rd grade and 5th grade at MTSE, and I&#8217;m glad I did!\u00a0 When I shared my almost-completed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13224,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Growing readers and writers at MTS Elementary! 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