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October 2, 2002
Transcript Analysis Project
(TAP)
Introduction:
The class is reading the book Where The Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak. Most of
the students were read this book in Kindergarten the year before. The discussion takes
place as the story is being read. I wait to show the pictures after we have discussed the
content on each page. I did not include the introduction or the conclusion to this
discussion.
Description of Students:
This is a first grade class with 11 boys and 10 girls. This is a rural school. Most of the
students are from lower or average middle class families. Their parents mostly work in
furniture or textile factories or local businesses. Of the 21 students, 19 are Caucasian,
1 is African American, and 1 is Asian. One student has Cerebral Palsy and has a personal
assistant for her special needs. 6 students are below average academically, 13 students
are average, and 3 students are above average. 5 students have speech problems and 3 of
my below average students were labeled “At Risk” by their teachers last year.
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Transcript of Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
The night Max wore his wolf suit and made mischief of one kind and another
Explain
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Turning Back
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Agree
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Marking
Retrieve
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Recapping
Explain
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Teacher: Now what has happened so far to Max?
Student 1: He’s wild
Teacher: Did it say Max was wild? Listen. (reread sentence)
What do you know about Max from this sentence?
Student 2: He makes one kind and another
Teacher: What was that word? He makes………..Mischief. What’s mischief? What do
you know about Max? He makes mischief. What does that mean?
Student 3: He’s making wolf sounds.
Teacher: OK, that would be mischief.
Student 2: Being wild.
Teacher: Being wild might be mischief.
And what is he wearing?
Many students: A wolf suit.
Teacher: A wolf suit. So, so far you know that Max is wearing a wolf suit and he’s making
mischief of one kind and another. (Showed pictures)
What kind of mischief is this?
Student 3: He’s chasing his doggie.
his mother called him “WILD THING” and Max said “I’LL EAT YOU UP!” so he was sent
to bed without eating anything.
Judgment
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Describe
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Turning Back
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Turning Back
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Opinion
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Agree
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Judgment
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Teacher: What do you think about Max’s behavior?
Many students: bad
Teacher: How would you describe his behavior?
Student4: Bad.
Teacher: Why do you say bad?
Student 4: Because he said he’s going to eat his mommy up.
Teacher: What’s wrong with that?
Student 4: Because that’s not nice.
Teacher: It’s not nice? (Shaking head like I’m thinking)
Many children: That’s not nice.
Student 1: That’s bad manners.
Teacher: That’s bad manners.
Good Student 1.
Student 2: And because his mommy loves him.
Teacher: His mommy loves him.
Is this something you should say to someone who loves you?
Many children: No
Teacher: So what did his mother do?
How did she feel about what Max did?
Student 5: She sent him without any food.
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Teacher: She sent him to bed without getting any supper.
Student 4: That’s so sad.
Teacher: Do you think Mamas’ get sad when they have to punish their children?
Student 4: Sorta upset.
Teacher: Upset’s a good word.
Student 6: But that’s what my mommy did?
Teacher: She sent you to bed without any supper?
(Elizabeth shakes her head yes and other children start to chime in so I begin reading.)
Paraphrase
Opinion
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Agree
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Paraphrase
That very night in Max’s room a forest grew and grew
Teacher: What do you think the author means by that? Did a forest really grow?
Student 1: It grew bigger and bigger.
Teacher: OK, you’re saying that the forest grew bigger and bigger,
but is that what the author meant, that trees really did grow in his bedroom?
What do you think Student 3?
Disagree w/ S. Student 3: I think the author that drew that was just trying to be silly.
Repeat
Teacher: You thought they were trying to be silly.
Disagree w/ S. Student 2: I think the author that drew it was just telling you that he fell asleep and was
dreaming.
Marking
Teacher: OK so Student 2 thinks he fell asleep and was dreaming.
Judgment
Does anyone agree with Student 2 or do you disagree? What do you think, Student
7?
Disagree w/ S. Student 7 : I think he’s imagining that there’s a forest in his room.
Repeat
Teacher: You think he’s imagining that there’s a forest in his room.
Turning Back
What makes you think that?
Personal Experience
Have you ever imagined anything in your room?
Correct
Student 7: yea
Personal Experience Teacher: Have you ever imagined or pretended? Do kids do that? Do kids imagine?
Correct
Many children: yea. I do. I have.
Judgment
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Turning back
(Showed picture)
Student 2: He’s closing his eyes.
Teacher: He is closing his eyes.
Student 8: Last night I dreamed…
(Everyone wants to tell me what they have imagined, so I read.)
Information
Agree
Unrelated
and grew
Opinions
Many children: Oh! Ooo!
He’s imagining that.
No he’s not.
Yes he is. He is too.
He’s sleeping.
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and grew until his ceiling hung with vines and the walls became the world all around
Unrelated
Turning Back
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Recapping
Opinion
Student 8: I dreamed last night…
Teacher: Now, I don’t want to know what you dreamed last night.
I want you to tell me what is happening to Max.
Student 3: His whole room is turning into a forest.
Teacher: OK, Now remember, some of you thought he was imagining. Some of you thought
he was dreaming. Some of you think that the forest really did grow in his room.
Many children: (Telling their neighbor what they think)
and an ocean tumbled by with a private boat for Max and he sailed off through night and day.
Explain
Correct
Turning Back
Correct
Retrieve
Correct
Agree
Marking
Teacher: So what has happened now to Max?
Student 9: The ocean sailed through his room.
Teacher: OK, who wants to finish what Student 9 was saying?
Student 2: It was going to sail through his room and lead him to the wild things?
Teacher: What was going to sail through his room?
Student 2: The sailboat.
Teacher: Ohhh…!
Teacher: Now listen to the way the author says this.
and in and out of weeks and almost over a year to where the wild things are.
Explain
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Turning Back
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Agree
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Helping
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Explain
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Teacher: What does the author mean by in and out of weeks and almost over a year? What
does that mean? Coty?
Student 10: It means he’s traveling by walking and he’s getting ready to fall asleep.
Teacher: (Reread sentence) Does it say he is falling asleep?
Many children: No
Teacher: (Reread sentence) What does this mean? What is the author saying?
Student 4: It means that that’s how long it took.
Teacher: How long… So the author is describing how long.
How long did it take?
Student 4: It took…. ugh
Teacher: Almost….
Many children: over a year
Teacher: Over a year. So is that more or less than a year?
Many children: More!
And when he came to the place where the wild things are they roared their terrible roars and
gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws.
Explain
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Turning Back
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Teacher: What’s happening, Student 11?
Student 11: He’s trying to be a wild thing?
Teacher: Did it say that he was trying to be a wild thing?
Many Children: No.
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Agree
Retrieve
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Describe
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Turning Back
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Turning Back
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Repeat
Agree
Disagree w/ S.
Agree
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Teacher: No, it did not say that.
He came to the place where the wild things are and what did they do? Student 12?
Student 12: They uh….
Teacher: How would you describe the wild things?
Student 6: They’re deciding, they’re ugh, they’re just deciding and…
Teacher: They’re deciding?
Student 6: uh ugh. They’re acting wild.
Teacher: How would you describe the wild things?
Student 13: Mean
Teacher: What did they do that made you think they were mean?
Student 13: They showed their claws and their teeth.
Teacher: They showed their claws and their teeth.
I might think they were mean too.
Student 7: I think they’re just excited that Max is there.
Teacher: Oh…! That could be a possibility.
Student 2: That’s what I think. I agree with her.
Teacher: They could be excited.
Student 6: That’s what I was thinking.
(Showed Picture)
Information
Agree
Judgment
Correct
Recapping
Disagree w/ S.
Student 12: It looks like the lion is smiling.
Teacher: It does.
So do you think they’re just excited or do you think they’re mean.
Many children: They’re excited
Teacher: So now ya’ll have changed your mind, you think maybe they’re excited?
Student 4 : I think they might be fighting over something, like fighting over who’s going to
eat him or something.
till Max said “BE STILL!” and tamed them with the magic trick of staring into all their
yellow eyes without blinking once and they were frightened and called him the most wild
thing of all
Explain
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Turning Back
Correct
Retrieve
Correct
Teacher: So who can tell me what has happened now with Max?
Student 14: He’s going to be the king.
Teacher: Well, first tell me what’s happened on this page? What has he done?
Student 3: They called him the most wild thing.
Teacher: What did he do to calm them down?
Student 2: Said be still and he stared at them and scared them.
And made him king of all wild things.
Retrieve
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Teacher: Why did they make him the King?
Student 9: Because he was…
Teacher: Student 6, why did they make him the king?
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Student 6: Because he was so scary.
Teacher: He was scary.
They thought he was the what?
Student 6 & other children: The wildest.
“And now,” cried Max, “let the wild rumpus start!”
Explain
Teacher: What’s a rumpus? Let the wild rumpus start. Student
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Student 13: Noise
Repeat
Teacher: Noise.
Agree
Good.
More information
How else would you describe a rumpus?
Correct
Student 2: Dancing around and making real loud scary noises
Agree
Opinion
Agree w/ S.
Information
Judgment
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13, what’s a rumpus?
Teacher: This must be a rumpus. (Showed the picture)
Student 9 : Yea, I bet that’s a rumpus.
Student 12 : Yes, cause they’re stomping up and now.
Student 2: Actually they’re roaring at the moon.
Teacher: Is this a rumpus? (Showed the next picture)
Many children: Yes!
Teacher: Is this a rumpus? (Showed the next picture)
Many children: Yes!
“Now stop!” Max said and sent the wild things off to bed without their supper.
Information
Explain
Correct
Repeat
Two children: Ah oh! Like his mother.
Teacher: Why do you think Max did that?
Student 2: Cause his mother did it to him.
Teacher: Cause his mother did it to him.
And Max the king of all wild things was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him
best of all.
Personal Experience Teacher: Where would someone love you best of all? Student
Correct
Student 1: My mommy
Paraphrase
Teacher: Your mommy and daddy. They love you best of all.
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Then all around from far away across the world he smelled good things to eat so he gave up
being king of where the wild things are.
Retrieve
Incorrect
Turning Back
Teacher: So what has he smelled, Student 15?
Student 15: I think he smelled chicken.
Teacher: Did it say chicken?
Children laugh
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Teacher: We don’t know what he smelled. You can’t guess if it doesn’t tell you. Does it tell
you what he smells right now? It just says that he smelled good things to eat. So we’ll have
to wait and see what he smells.
(Showed picture)
Information
Agree
Student 4: He looks lonely.
Teacher: He does look lonely.
But the wild things cried, “Oh please don’t go—we’ll eat you up—we love you so!”
Retrieve
Teacher: Where have I heard that before. “We’ll eat you up.”
Correct
Repeat
Helping
Correct
Student 15: The little boy said that to his mother.
Teacher: The little boy said that to his mother.
And now the wild things are saying it to…
Teacher and children: him
And Max said, “No!”
The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their
terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Mac stepped into his private boat and waved
good-bye
And sailed back over a year and in and out of weeks and through a day
Annotating
Question to T.
Teacher: Look at his eyes. (showed picture)
Student 8: Does it say if he was dreaming?
Teacher: (Shake head no)
And into the night of his very own room where he found his supper waiting for him
Agree w/ student Student 2 : I think he was dreaming.
Explain
Teacher: Now what do you think the author meant to happen? Why is the forest not there?
Opinion
Student 15: I guess it disappeared.
Disagree w/ S. Student 2: It wasn’t in his room.
Turning Back
Teacher: It wasn’t in his room?
Opinions
Many children: He was dreaming. It was make-believe. It was his imagination.
Repeat
Teacher: It was make-believe.
Opinion
Student 4: It was his imagination or a dream.
Repeat
Teacher: Imagination or dreaming.
More information
Student 12 , how would you explain this?
Correct
Student 12: He probably was sleeping and he was dreaming and he woke up and it wasn’t
Information
Agree w/ S.
Turning Back
there anymore.
Student 4: Yea! Cause look at his eyes….in the picture.
I agree with Student 12 .
Teacher: You agree with Student 12, why?
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Agree w/ S.
Turning Back
Correct
Paraphrase
Turning Back
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Marking
Agree w/ S.
Turning Back
Agree w/ S.
Question to T.
Turning Back
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Student 8: I do too.
Teacher: What about his eyes?
Student 4: Because he’s like…(he squints)
Teacher: His eyes kinda look squinty.
Why?
Student 4: Like they’ve just been asleep.
Teacher: Like you’ve just been asleep. Trent, that’s a very good observation.
Student 2: I think he was falling asleep. He was so hungry he fell asleep and dreamed that a
forest was growing. Then he sailed and went to the wild things.
Teacher: So, are you agreeing with Student 4 and 12?
Student 2: Then they roared and stuff like that and it kinda scared him and he was frightened
and he woke up and started squinting his eyes like this
Student 4: That’s sorta like Student 12 and me.
Teacher: Yea! I think you’re agreeing….are you agreeing with Student 12 and 4?
Student 2: Yes. I’m definitely agreeing.
and it was still hot.
Explain
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Turning Back
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Disagree w/ S.
Turning Back
Disagree w/ S.
Marking
Turning Back
Opinion
Turning Back
Opinion
Turning Back
Correct
Correct
Turning Back
Opinion
Repeat
Opinion
Agree
Opinion
Teacher: So had he been over a year and in and out of weeks. How do you know it had not
been a year?
Student 6: When he was gone, his mother quietly opened his door and put his supper in there
and left his room.
Teacher: What do you mean, when he was gone?
Student 6: When he was out into the wild things.
Student 4: He really wasn’t gone.
Teacher: So you think he was really out of his room, out into the wild things? (Talking to
Elizabeth)
Many children: No! He was dreaming!
Teacher: These people think he was dreaming.
What do you think Elizabeth?
Student 6: I think he really was out into the wild things?
Teacher: Why?
Student 6: Because the forest grew and grew into his bedroom and didn’t go away until a
long time. I think that means it really happened.
Teacher: Could that happen?
Many children: No!
Student 12: Unless you put plants in there.
Teacher: Could that happen….? So, do you think that it really did grow? What do you think
? Student 6
Student 6: I think he was dreaming.
Teacher: You think maybe, he might have been dreaming?
Student 3: While he was sleeping, I think his mother went in his room and put some supper
on his table.
Teacher: OK
Student 4: I don’t think that really happened because when he got back it was still hot. It
wouldn’t be hot if it was over weeks and years.
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Helping
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Paraphrase
Opinion
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Teacher: The food would have been what, Student 4?
Many children: Cold
Teacher: The food would have been cold.
Student 2: I think his momma knew that he would wake up if he smelled the food. So she
put it on his table and he smelled the food and then he wanted to go home and eat
the food. So then he woke up and ate the food.
Teacher: And so he woke up and ate the food.
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