Palindromes

Our class certainly fulfilled their responsibility of collecting palindromes.  Once again we had more than enough to fill a chart.  Check it out!

Why all of this word play, you might ask?  I have been reading a novel aloud to the class called "Punished" by David Lubar.  While doing so, I have been modelling appropriate oral reading using phrasing, expression, intonation, proper pronunciation, and enunciation.  We also practiced activating prior knowledge by making connections (a reading strategy), characteristics of a narrative, using sticky notes, predicting, as well as providing the opportunity to get excited about words. It seemed to have sparked some interest because students are now suggesting words that we could add to our word wall and are starting to use more sophisticated vocabulary in their writing.