STOP! Notice & Note! The first ten days of school students learned about close reading strategies called sign posts. They are 6 common signs that appear in almost any book. When you notice one, you stop and ask yourself an anchor question, and answer it in order to dig deeper into the text and grow ideas about characters, conflicts, and themes. Students have been actively using these strategies during our read aloud of The Tiger Rising, and while reading in their book group books. In addition to the signposts, students have been learning strategies to help them identify the small moments; actions, dialogue, & character thoughts, in text where we learn things about characters and can grow ideas about what kind of people they are. They are learning to use precise language; character traits. By identifying multiple traits students are beginning to understand how characters, like people, are complicated or more than one way. They are learning to also think about a character's motivations and the obstacles they encounter while trying to get what they want. How they deal with the obstacle or problem gives important information about what kind of person the character is as well. They record all of their thinking while they read on post-it notes or directly in their reading response notebooks. This helps them to hold onto their ideas, look for patterns of behavior, and grow ideas by gathering evidence from the text. Next we'll be looking at how characters change from the beginning to the end of a story, what they learn, and identifying the theme. Writing About Reading! Being able to write about what you read helps to solidify your own understanding of the text. Additionally, students need to be able to respond to specific questions, cite examples from the text to support their ideas, and explain why their example is a good one. I introduced them to RACE. It's an acronym which will help them to remember to include all the parts of a well written response. Then they use the student rubrics from the learning progressions to rate one another and get feedback on their work. HOMEWORK EXPECTATIONS!
Students are expected to read for a minimum of 20 minutes every night. They should be reading in a "just right" book. Their book club books will be read in school unless they have make up reading to do. Their homework book can be a choice read. At this time we are requiring them to log what they read, when, and how many pages.
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