Character Development BME for Primary Students

Today while planning with our second grade teachers, they expressed a couple of great points. First, they wanted to tweak the way we do 6-Minute Solution. Currently, we follow our district guidelines and use the program as an introduction. They mentioned they wanted to do it the first six minutes of differentiated instruction. Great idea! This way they can follow the readers a little closer, especially in their lower classes. Right now, if a student is very low, they can't correct any errors because they don't realize there was an error. The second thing they wanted to do was incorporate the Stamina initiative we have going on in the entire school! (Coaches, don't you just LOVE when this happens?!) So, in 2nd grade we are going to begin at 5 minutes of silent reading and they will follow the current Primary schedule of Stamina Fridays. Students will read the story they are normally reading, but silently, and then take their regular assessment after. Finally, I taught them the BME strategy (beginning, middle, end). I added one of our state's question stems-How does the character change from the beginning to the end of the story? I also wanted the kids to be able to back up their opinions with proof from the story. And, because we are really pushing writing in our school this year in every grade level,

I added a paragraph frame where kids will use their graphic organizers to complete it.

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