bibliography lesson

Lesson bombed with a capitol B.

I think if I could boil it down to one key thing, it was planning. The timing didn't make sense. There was too much work for a 70 minute period. And if that weren't enough, I felt like the activities weren't properly scaffolded. When the kids got to the bibliography puzzle section, they didn't use clues, they just tried to fit the puzzle together.

Fortunately, I teach this lesson again next Friday. Here's what I'm going to do:

1. Instead of having them FIND the bibliography pieces, I'm going to have them copy them off of a power point slide. We can come back to "finding" on another day.

2. Get to the puzzle earlier and prep it better. Go whole class with directions so that everyone knows what I want them to do.

3. A clear guided practice where the kids call out what comes next in an entry.

4. Re make the puzzle. Make the cuts cleaner and more obvious. Only 3 entries instead of 4. Also, remake the puzzle with books they're familiar with like Twilight. That way, the kids will already know what's a book and what's an article.