2. SIM Professional Developer or Specialist

 Patty and Diane my SIM Professional Developers.  We went through The Word Mapping Strategy at PATTAN Harrisburg.  My book is tabbed with post it notes to take me to the various parts of the book to use with students. 

Diane Gillam & Patty Graner led the session in Harrisburg, PA

Completed Word Mapping with Elizabeth Gibbs on December 5, 2017 at Burns Middle School in Lawndale, This strategy reminds me of my focus on morphology when I was teaching gifted students. Other teachers felt that students who were not gifted were not "ready" for this. Had I known about this word mapping strategy, I could have been more influential in them seeing this differently. This enables students to learn how to predict unknown words because they are taught prefixes, suffixes, and roots. The can then use these skills to predict the meaning of words. I feel that this would be especially helpful for students in science.

Patty Graner
Diane Gillam

Patty and Diane