Sharing in the Reading Tent

As I was roving during Daily 5 today I noticed two of our boys in the reading tent and it was such a gorgeous sight. They were doing 'Word Work' and exploring dictionaries together. What made this particularly amazing was they have both been trying to ‘Expand Vocabulary’ from Café Literacy. They were comparing words that were missing and why dictionaries are not the same. We also have a few thesauruses in the tent. As we have allowed them to just explore the dictionaries in the tent, this coming week we are going to formally teach the features and uses of them. Our more able students are already using them in alphabet keys and list making tasks independently. Preps are always amazing