#Reasoning history wordwall free#

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#Reasoning history wordwall free#

There's also a free template for you to use in your own 3rd, 4th, or 5th grade classroom! I've experimented with several ways to organize this word wall, and my favorite two options are below. And eventually, my students stopped describing every character as friendly! When I asked students to defend their reasoning and explain why all of these characters were friendly, the main answer I would get would be along the lines of. We created a character trait word wall that we added to all year long. I decided my students needed to broaden their character trait vocabularyand start thinking more about word connotations. When I asked students to defend their reasoning and explain why all of these characters were friendly, the main answer I would get would be along the lines of 'The character didn't do anything mean.' Somehow, I had taught my class that anybody who was not mean is automatically friendly! When asked to describe the character traits this character exhibited, OVER 75% of my students chose friendly! (I believe the correct answer was creative.) I vividly remember this group of students taking a practice test where a character made up a game involving running through the sprinklers in their front yard.

If a character took a nap, somehow that was friendly behavior! If a character took care of somebody else's pet, that was friendly behavior. If a character handed a tissue to somebody, my students considered that friendly behavior. Somewhere in the lesson, we had taken a close look at the character trait 'friendly.' I'm not sure what exactly I said or did, but after the lesson my students became OBSESSED with describing characters as friendly. Then, I taught a lesson on character traits that resulted in an unexpected confusion in my students. I had successfully dealt with some difficult behavior problems, explained equivalent fractions to my 3rd graders without any tears, and I finally felt certain that my students were learning a lot. Going into my 3rd year teaching, I was finally beginning to feel more confident.