I have been working really hard to get my students involved in analyzing text, and excited about reading. So, I thought, why not turn a fairy tale like "Jack and the Beanstalk" into a great debate! I presented the question "Is taking a goose and a doughnut from an evil giant stealing?" Students had to read through the text and formulate an opinion as to whether or not this was stealing. Once they had their opinion, they had to create debate posters with answers supported with evidence from the text. Then we invited another 2nd grade class in to see if we could persuade them through our debate. It turned into a pretty heated discussion, and we even had some students who started out with a "yes" turn their ideas to "no" due to hard evidence! This is something we will be doing more of, it was fun!
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