Strategies
- Interactive Read-aloud: Reading aloud is one way for everyone in the class to be exposed to information in books and the whole group can have something in common. Interactive read-alouds allow the students to become involved and engaged in the reading, by making predictions about the text, noticing details in the pictures, make comments on the book, and/or ask questions.
- Open-Mind Portraits: One of the goals of this lesson is to learn empathy. Open-Mind Portraits can help to do this. The students will have a outline of a character in the book and they will have to write or draw what they think the character is thinking throughout the story.
- Literature Circles: Have the members of the class split into groups and everyone in that group reads the same story. They discuss the book talking about the elements, the themes of the story, what they were thinking about during the reading and can they expand on any of the ideas in the book relating text to self, text, or world.
- Peer Teaching and Learning: Have each group present what they talked about on their Lit. Circles. Each story is a little different and address different types and ways of bullying. Have the students discuss the differences in the stories and what connections they may have.
- Creative Writing: Have each student write a poem, short story, report, or picture book over bullying. Have them write about bullying in there lives, what they have learned, solutions to the problem, or anything else related to the topic. If they are writing fiction make sure to think about point of view.
:) Created by Marissa Hoshaw 2012