Learning In Rainbow Valley

Today we enjoyed building our schema for Rosa Parks.
What is schema you ask? I have included a great article written by a Virginia Beach Reading Resource Teacher that you may find helpful.


Before your child reads a story ask them to Activate their Schema.  This strategy really gets them thinking.  Once they are reading ask them to Build their Schema.  

Schema

Schema is what we think we know. It’s what we’ve seen before, heard about, or experienced in our life. We all have different schema, because we’ve all lived and experienced different things. You can have a lot of schema or a little bit of schema for something. Or you can have no schema at all.
When we “activate” our schema, we think about what we already know. It’s like we have a whole bunch of little file folders in our head labeled with different topics. One folder might be labeled “grandma” or “dolphins” or “worms”. If we activate our schema for “worms” then we pull that file folder out of our head and open it up and see what we already have inside it.
When we “build” our schema, we add new information into those files. We do this by reading a book about that topic, talking with a friend, or by simply experiencing something.
When we “revise” our schema, we take out any information that was wrong and replace it with new information. For example, we might have had in our schema that dolphins are
fish. But when we built our schema and read a book about dolphins, we revised our schema when we found out that dolphins are mammals.
-Article By Amanda Yates