Please join me on the blog for Unit Opener Planning Week, the week of October 15-20, a week spent planning and reflecting on possible unit opener ideas for the next unit.
Here’s the schedule for this blog (entries posted at 7:30 AM PST):
Monday 10/15 Best Practices for Unit Openers/Anticipatory Sets
Tuesday 10/16 Virtual Guest Speakers: Videoconferencing Made Easy
Wednesday 10/17 Activating your concept/question board
Thursday 10/17 Second Grade, Kindness Ideas
Friday 10/18 Third Grade, City Wildlife Ideas
Saturday 10/19 Fourth Grade, Dollars and Sense/Dreams to Jobs Ideas
Sunday 10/20 Fifth Grade, Astronomy Ideas
I also tag the following Open Court bloggers to continue or begin their discussions of their upcoming units:
1st Grade: Portable Superstars
2nd Grade: City Teacher
2nd Grade: 2A Vikings
2nd Grade: Mrs. Creticos
3rd Grade: Jose Rodriguez
3rd Grade: Jane Little
4th Grade: Mr. McCauley
4th Grade: Mr. K
4th Grade: Mr. Lawton
Ms. Mercer from a multi-level computer lab perspective
Special2Me from a special education perspective
You need not be tagged or be an Open Court Reading teacher to participate. Please post about your plans to introduce your next unit, link back to this post, and leave a response here with a link to your post.
I hope we end the week with some great ideas and pages when can go back to in the future for reference.
Continue to Unit Opener Ideas.
I am working on it right now. I’ll post later this weekend when I finish. Here’s the plan: I am opening the unit for my SDC 3rd-5th. I have levels all the way from non-verbal to 4th grade reading level. So obviously I have to scaffold this lesson in so many ways. I will email you later on.
Great idea mathew! Check out my entry on Unit Opener ideas; http://coordinator2.wordpress.com/2007/10/12/open-court-unit-openers Looking forward to a great week of collaboration and learning.
Ah, my brain is brewing! Won’t be able to post anything on this until next week but I can’t wait! Thank you for the invitiation Mathew!
Hmmm, I’m thinking about this. I’m more in the phase of closing out the first units now. I’ll try for next week?
First idea is up and cross grade level. Collaborative unit openers! Mathew, this is an exciting project.
It’s great to see what you guys are doing!
Here it is: http://mizmercer.edublogs.org/2007/10/18/open-court-unit-openers/
finally.
Here are my ideas