Teacher-librarian Sue Rasmussen and fourth-grade teacher Kylee
Howard field tested this lesson. They serve at Ruth Powell Elementary
School in Safford, Arizona. They taught these lessons in the
library media center.
In November 2007, Kylee and Sue conducted the modeling lessons
using a parallel teaching approach. This allowed each educator
to read and solicit students' responses to Tomás and
the Library Lady. More students had the opportunity to share
their ideas because of the lower student-to-teacher ration.
This photograph shows them teaching the same book at the same
time to half the class.
While students worked in small groups to read and ask questions
related to the book More Than Anything Else, Kylee and
Sue jointly monitored the students' work. Instead of completing
this lesson on the second day, the educators decided students
would be more engaged and focused if they broke that lesson
into two shorter work periods on consecutive days.
Samples of individual student work: Question Evaluation (Supplement
5F)
AASL Standards
for the 21st-Century Learner:
