The second part of the lesson went well. The students were able to come up with very creative answers to my open-ended questions. I noticed that Katie was more willing to participate, however, I made sure Matt participated equally by making them alternate on who answered the questions. They were also both encouraged to comment on each other's answers and ask follow up questions. They both were able to carry out the objectives I made for them by answering several questions. Furthermore, they used the questioning strategy learned in the previous lesson to ask each other and me additional questions.
The strengths in this lesson for supporting my students learning were that the questions used were very open-ended and allowed them to think about the book more critically than they are usually required to do in their class. A limitation to this was that they are not used to these types of questions, that do not have a "correct" answer, which they were thrown off by a bit. They asked me if they got the answer right a couple of different times. When they did this, I reminded them that there is no "correct" answer other than trying their best to think about them as answer them as best as they could by using the book's pictures and words to help explain their thinking.
I noticed that I may be a bit too accepting of answers. By this I mean, I have a hard time saying that students are wrong, or need to think about their answer more. I did however ask them to explain their reasoning when I felt this was an issue, which I think is a good way to keep them motivated and not feel bad about their answers. All in all, I thought this lesson went well.
Please let me know if I need to clarify anything!!! Thanks!
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