YES MA'AM

YES! MA'AM

Today I had the opportunity to go into Mrs. Beavers's Classroom and continue our work with YES! MA'AM. Our focus today was to put a whole YES! MA'AM together.  We began the lesson by reviewing how to write a Yes! MA'AM: Restating the question and providing an answer/inference, citing evidence using a sentence starter, and closing it by restating the answer/inference.  Students then went back to their seat and read the Newsela article: "Driverless Cars, Flying Cars, and Now Walking Cars".

                              

After reading students answered the question: "Elevate" was introduced by Hyundai at a car show in Las Vegas. What sets "Elevate" apart from other cars? Use two details from the text to support your answer. We used a scaffold today with the four boxes and students were also provided the sentence starters. Students worked on one part at a time, and then we checked back in whole group.
Here are some examples from today:

                              

Driverless Cars, Flying Cars, Now Walking Cars
Yes MA'AM Template (just add sentence starters for support)

Yes MA'AM

YES MA'AM

Yesterday I had the opportunity to go into Mrs. Beavers's 4th grade classroom. Our lesson focus was writing a constructed response. We reviewed the YES! MA'AM checklist to begin the lesson. See it below!

Our Article was from Newsela (which already has an embedded constructive response for EVERY article). The question was, "What is the overall central idea of this article? Use at least two details from the text to support your answer." The students used turn and talk to pull out details. We also talked about using the exact words from the article.

                         

 

We started the YES!! MA"AM by giving our answer to the central topic of the article and restating the question. We then 

Today we practiced whole group, next week, we will practice more individualized and with Chromebooks.

Link to PDFs used:
YES MA'AM POSTER
CONSTRUCTED RESPONSE TEMPLATE
NEWSELA PDF