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Reading Logs
The PCL Model
Our district follows the Partnership for Comprehensive Literacy Model created by Linda Dorn and Carla Soffos. Reading logs are a key part of the model. They are used to record student's thoughts, ideas and learning.
Creating A Reading Log
The Reading Log can be any kind of notebook. In the past we have used 5 subject notebooks, but we found that the pages were always falling out, so we switched to composition notebooks. Once the notebook has been chosen, it needs to be tabbed. In our classroom, we use 3 tabs. We have a tab for genre learning, my strategies, powerful words and phrases and my thinking.
Genre Learning
In this tab we compile our learning about different genres. In third grade we teach a variety of genres including, fiction, non-fiction, historical fiction, biography, poetry, and fables. All of our learning about the genres goes into our genre learning tab.
My Strategies Tab
In this section, students record their learning about the comprehension strategies: questioning, making connections, visualizing, inferring, summarizing, activating prior knowledge, making predictions, and synthesizing.
Powerful Words & Sentences Tab
This is the section where students record all of the new, exciting language that they come across. It could be a word that they have never heard, a funny sounding word or a word that they just hope to use more in their writing. Sometimes I will even have kids open to their Powerful Words & Sentences section and have them record any words they hear me read from our text that they consider powerful. From time to time, kids are given opportunities to look up some of their powerful words in the dictionary and they are always encouraged to use their words when they are writing stories.
My Thinking
This final tab is where students can record any thinking that they are doing while reading. Responses to books that they read independently, in guided reading or during lit discussion groups are written in this section of the notebook. My students flag their thinking as they read and mark important places in their reading that sparked some sort of thinking. After they read, they make time for writing a response. My students also are part of literature discussion groups, or book clubs as we like to call them They are required to write a response and have their thinking prepared before they discuss with their group. In the past, I used a separate tab for lit discussion, but I have since decided that it works just fine to combine it with their everyday thinking.
Here are some of the anchor charts we have been talking about in reading these first few weeks of school.
Some of our classmates modeling how to be productive readers!
Reading Logs
The PCL Model
Our district follows the Partnership for Comprehensive Literacy Model created by Linda Dorn and Carla Soffos. Reading logs are a key part of the model. They are used to record student's thoughts, ideas and learning.
Creating A Reading Log
The Reading Log can be any kind of notebook. In the past we have used 5 subject notebooks, but we found that the pages were always falling out, so we switched to composition notebooks. Once the notebook has been chosen, it needs to be tabbed. In our classroom, we use 3 tabs. We have a tab for genre learning, my strategies, powerful words and phrases and my thinking.
Genre Learning
In this tab we compile our learning about different genres. In third grade we teach a variety of genres including, fiction, non-fiction, historical fiction, biography, poetry, and fables. All of our learning about the genres goes into our genre learning tab.
My Strategies Tab
In this section, students record their learning about the comprehension strategies: questioning, making connections, visualizing, inferring, summarizing, activating prior knowledge, making predictions, and synthesizing.
Powerful Words & Sentences Tab
This is the section where students record all of the new, exciting language that they come across. It could be a word that they have never heard, a funny sounding word or a word that they just hope to use more in their writing. Sometimes I will even have kids open to their Powerful Words & Sentences section and have them record any words they hear me read from our text that they consider powerful. From time to time, kids are given opportunities to look up some of their powerful words in the dictionary and they are always encouraged to use their words when they are writing stories.
My Thinking
This final tab is where students can record any thinking that they are doing while reading. Responses to books that they read independently, in guided reading or during lit discussion groups are written in this section of the notebook. My students flag their thinking as they read and mark important places in their reading that sparked some sort of thinking. After they read, they make time for writing a response. My students also are part of literature discussion groups, or book clubs as we like to call them They are required to write a response and have their thinking prepared before they discuss with their group. In the past, I used a separate tab for lit discussion, but I have since decided that it works just fine to combine it with their everyday thinking.
Here are some of the anchor charts we have been talking about in reading these first few weeks of school.
Some of our classmates modeling how to be productive readers!
