Q3 More ways to teach SCHEMA!

Welcome to Q3!  Thank you to all that spent the morning with me yesterday talking about SCHEMA!  I can't wait to see your Schema Sticks and One Minute Schema Determiners in your classrooms!

I wanted to share some more ideas to get even more explicit instruction about schema into your classrooms and lessons.  I LOVE this little idea below.  Such a great way for a student to show what they already know about a topic.  

This could be done simply with a generic head cutout and some crayons.  Students could draw the images instead of cutting. 

I would use one color for their schema before they read and then another after reading.  

Then they could analyze their illustrations and see how much knowledge on a topic they gained from reading.  

I created a template for to use in your classroom.  Just click the image to download!

If you read farther into the book Comprehension Connections on page 37 you will run across the idea of Concentric Circles of Connections.  This is simply teaching students to make connections to texts using their schema.  Check out the anchor chart below! 

Here is a great video from Pow Toons about those different types of connections that students make to text. 

Oh MY!   If you haven't jumped on the SCHEMA train yet this blog post from Miss Decarbo will get you on board!  It is filled with tons!!!!! of great information about why we need to start teaching young learners about how to activate their schema!

Happy Planning!