culturally responsive instruction

Conversing with students about books and reading can be a very informative form of assessment. You can learn a lot about what they enjoy and what they dislike, what they find easy to do and what they find challenging.    This type of conversation about their perceptions and preferences can inform the kind of instruction and supports you provide.

ACTIVITY
Engage a child you know in a conversation about books or reading (or think about a conversation youve recently had with a child on this topic).    What did you learn from this conversation?    Did anything about this conversation surprise you?    Did anything worry you?    Did anything impress you?    Think about what questions you asked and how the child responded.    Did any of those questions extend or deepen the conversation and prompt interesting responses?    Did any seem to stop the conversation?    Are there other questions you wish you had asked?

POSTING
Begin the post with a    brief description of    your conversation with a child and    what you learned.    Based on this conversation and other experiences youve had, write    two questions or conversational strategies you think might help extend or deepen this type of conversation.    This weeks discussion is meant to help us develop a list of questions to use when engaging in book talk with children.    So, if possible, try to post 2 questions have not yet been posted.