Rationale

In my elementary classroom field placement at Evans City

Elementary, I created and taught lessons for a third-grade
classroom. Incorporating a read aloud with a reading strategy, I
taught students how to use a ‘Who Wanted But So Then’ organizer
to summarize a biographical text. Graphic organizers can help
students organize thoughts and more concisely communicate the
main idea of a text. To teach this lesson, I modeled the strategy
with a text they read the day before about Ruby Bridges. Then,
while reading aloud I am Jackie Robinson I pointed out details that
would eventually go into our ‘Who Wanted But So Then’ organizer.
After reading, I guided the students through the first part of the
graphic organizer. The students worked independently and shared
their answers with a partner. Finally, we discussed the summaries
the students created. Summarizing a text is important because it
shows that the students comprehended the text. This graphic
organizer not only showed that students comprehended the key
details, but they could integrate the central ideas of the text in a
meaningful way.