woolvs+in+the+sitee

//__woolvs in the sitee__// by Margaret Wild and Anne Spudvilas
We used this book to develop the language and tools needed for discussing and writing argument/ opinion. I used it successfully with my 3rd graders, reading the book aloud several times before we set to work. It worked because I could honestly say that no one, not even Ms. Spudvilas herself, has specifically stated what the book is intended to represent. This made it very, very safe for all the children to conjecture, and then to gather evidence from the text and illustrations that would support their various stances. The children developed and then presented their thinking and related textual and visual evidence.

I did not use the YouTube trailer with my 3rd graders--the music makes it much scarier than the way I read it in class. I did use the trailer successfully when presenting the idea to adults and colleagues have used the trailer successfully with older students.

[|• Book trailer for //woolvs in the sitee//] - YouTube [|• Blog discussing //woolvs in the sitee//] - scroll down to find Anne Spudvilas's entry

3rd Grade Student work - group presenting "Gangs" as the underlying subject
• [|Gangs_frame] - working in small groups, children collected their evidence here before presenting it to the rest of the class • Gangs - example of visual evidence #1 [|gang_pic_evidence1.jpeg] • Gangs - example of visual evidence #2 [|gang_pic_evidence2.jpeg] • Gangs - example of text evidence [|gang_txt_evidence1.jpeg]

3rd Grade Student work - group presenting "Bad Weather" as the underlying subject
• Weather - example of visual evidence #1 [|weather_pic_evidence1.jpeg] • Weather - example of visual evidence #2 [|weather_pic_evidence2.jpeg] • Weather - example of text evidence [|weather_txt_evidence1.jpeg]