A: Outdoor Play/Inquiry

How to use the outdoors as a learning environment while covering learning outcomes.

    *safety                                                *self-regulating
    *listening spot                                      *getting back to nature
    *using your senses                                *social responsibility
    *literacy in nature                                  *physical play
    *math in nature                                    *rough and tumble play
    *science in nature                                 *self-initiated play 

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B: Literacy Play

Using literature books to explore play!
    *Oral Language
    *A/B Partners
    *Using stories as invitations for play
    *Group and Individual planning
    *Role Play


Check out "Can I Play Too? by Mo Williams and how a simple book can have so much 'Literacy Play'! at...
                http://div18sharing.blogspot.ca/p/smart-learning.html

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C: SmartLearning Approach to Parent Reading

Helping parents develop deeper reading skills beyond decoding words!

    *Using SmartLearning Tools from Susan Close
    *Giving reading goals
    *Group reporting out
    *Students teaching their parents
    *Parent participation
    *Giving parents and children common language for being "Powerful Readers"
"Not only are we pointing out connections in our reading, we are making connections throughout our day" says Mrs. Bouey.

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D: SmartLearning with Young Learners

Taking meaningful literature and building a series of lessons through the nine steps to SmartLearning.

    *http://www.smartreading.ca/
    *Accessing prior knowledge, connections, questioning, imagery etc.
    *A/B partners
    *Chunking text
    *Transformation of text
    *Goal Setting and Reflecting on their own learning.
See how Math Literature can be incorporated in the Nine Steps of SmartLearning at...
        http://div18sharing.blogspot.ca/p/math-smart-learning.html

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E: Guided Independent SmartLearning

Students are reading books at their own developmental level while learning to be "Powerful Readers" and not just decoders.

    *Using SmartLearning Tools guided by the teacher as they read their own texts
    *Guiding them through being "Powerful Readers" which then fosters "Powerful Writers"
    *Before reading, during reading and after reading...

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