Hats

This week, we met more hats (that Ms. Leom wears).

Sunni Summarizer

Madame Prediction

Clara Clarifier

Queenie, the Queen of Questions

The characters represent "reciprocal reading", four processes successful readers use as they read. Readers predict, ask questions, clarify, and summarize as they read. In Ms. Leom's world, each of these skills is represented as a hat. The many hats of a reader.

The characters also have a voice. MADAME Prediction speaks with a slight (poor) French/German/European sound. Queen of Questions speaks fast Midwestern. Clara has a southern accent, and Sunni Summarize is Midwestern calm and collected. It helps later, when Ms. Leom wants to prompt students, she can switch her voice, and students are immediately cued to our learning.

Our focus this week is summarizing and clarifying (fix-up monitoring). These are important skills, and students use summarizing daily, most notable, on their green, weekly reading logs. 

These pictures are "stock" images from previous years. When students are surveyed at the end of every year, they often remember these characters. When students enter sixth grade, and they are working on these four roles, rumor has it, these hats are remembered and mentioned. Hats off to learning!!