The book Career Day by Anne Rockwell is about a class that is having a career day at school. The children in Mrs. Madoff's classroom take turns introducing their family member for career day. Every visitor has an interesting job to talk about and together the class learns about all of the different jobs people do. This book gives the reader a first person view on what younger students think about career day. This book is a good book to teach the making connections reading strategy because many students can relate to having career day at school. This book could be used to teach text to self because text to self is a connection between the book and the readers feelings or life experiences. To teach students how to make text to self connections the teacher could have a chart with three questions and the students could answer the questions on their own sheet of paper. The questions are What does the story remind me of, has something familiar happened to me, and have you ever had the same feelings as the character. When students are asked these type of questions it allows them to make a connection with the characters in the story.
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Here's an example of a chart that could be used to help students make connections. We found this activity at this text to self activity at this website http://www.pinterest.com/pin/215680269628546782/.We believe this book would go along very good with this activity because most kids can relate to career day and thinking about what they want to be when they grown up.
Career day is a very fun day for students and they can learn about so many different careers and learn about what they may want to be when they grow up. The activity you chose was really neat. The text to self is a great way for the student better connect the characters. ~Olivia
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ReplyDeleteCareer day was one of the best days of the year when I was in elementary school! I think all students will enjoy this book and I like that the bloggers chose to provide an example of the text to self activity. I agree that this book will go along nicely with the activity. -Beth
ReplyDeleteI really like your book choice. Students can make connections with their future career plans, or their parent's career. The chart is a wonderful illustration of the comprehension strategy. I think it would be great to encourage students to write about their future career plans. Your younger students a good sentence stem would be: "When I grow up, I want to be________." Great Job!
ReplyDeleteI love the idea of using a career book! Kids love to talk about what they want to be when they grow up, so I think this book would be easy for children to connect with. I like the idea of giving the children questions to help them understand how to connect with the book. I think it would be a great way to teach them to make connections.
ReplyDeleteUsing a career day idea was very good, each child has some prior knowledge as to what their parent(s) do for a living and they can relate that to the book and with their classmates. I like the activity chart you posted as it gives a great visual to what questions the students need to be asking or relating to. Great job on your post! I also like the questions you put in there to ask students so they can generate some ideas in what they have or haven't experienced.
ReplyDeleteIt is awesome to be able to use this book for an actual Career Day at school. It is very important for children to learn about having a career and this book focuses in on that importance! I think the activity will really get the students engaged and thinking about what they would like to do themselves when they grow up. I remember my husband attending a career day at my children's schools. That could be another interesting thing, is inviting some of parents to come and share what type of career they have and talking with the students about it. Great book for a great topic!
ReplyDeleteCareer day is always a favorite At school!! The students get excited. The feeling they could connect to through this book would be great for getting them into the activity -- sarah
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