2 Pigsty
Readers Workshop Daily Plan
1. Mini-Lesson Focus: Conversations with Books
ELACCRL2 Determine themes, central message, or moral using text for reasons. ELACCRL3 Describe characters and their actions using text for evidence
2. Pigsty: Say to students, “Talking about books is a great way for you to interact with each other. It also gives you a chance to voice your thoughts about what you are thinking. Many times this will allow you to think about a character or what the author is trying to say in a new way. It expands your thinking about what you are reading.” Read Pigsty by Mark Teague to the class. Just read it through without stopping to reflect on what you are thinking. After reading, tell students that you have put Table Twitters on each table setting. You want them to work in collaborative groups to twitter to the parts of the story that you have left. Students should write down their twitters and then have a brief sharing. Different tweets should be at each table so students can rotate and respond to different topics (see examples below). After allowing students to respond, bring group back together to gather everyone’s thoughts. Tweets can be posted around the room. Encourage students to “tweet” each time they read books so that their ideas can be shared and expanded on by many students.
3. Student Reading/Teacher Conferring
4. Reading Share: Student Teacher
Have students share some of their tweets.
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Examples of things to Tweet from Pigsty by Mark Teague
General questions for each of the tables: Mark Teague uses several phrases to compare Wendall’s behavior and room. What do these phrases mean from the book? What are some other comparative phrases that you know? What do they mean?
When Wendell’s mother came to look at his room, the pig was hiding, but the mess was still there. She threw up her hands. “Okay, Wendell,” she said. “If you want to live in a pigsty, that’s up to you.”
Wendall started to complain. The mess was too huge. But suddenly he remembered a saying he’s heard, that “many hooves make light work.”
Mark Teague writes, “In fact, it was a bit too clean, from a pig’s point of view. So while Wendell inspected, the pigs prepared to go home.” What would be some other “animals” points of view in thi same situation? What phrases could be used to support your thinking?
Troup County Schools 2013
Reading Writing Connection