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and blogged a response showing how they used summarizing from today's learning.
 * Students reflected on how using these strategies help them better understand the text on the discussion page

March 14, 2011 - Monday -Some students had not heard of the Everglades so we took a virtual mini field trip using the Discovery Education site. The trip shared insights about the size of the Everglades today being less than 1/3 of its original size. Students began having "aha" moments as they realized why the Southern Indians did not inhabit larger areas of the southern part of the state.
 * Today during guided reading we reflected on our summaries (and bubble maps) about the Apalachee tribe. We reread the Northern Indian section and used thinking stems that involved ** questioning **and ** determining importance **to identify if we indeed summarized the most important points about the tribe. Students realized that they needed to revise their summaries to include new learning pulled from the text brought out in our conversations.