Today’s Agenda:

1. Today’s Agenda: • Mini Lesson: Good readers make connections • Work Time: Independent reading time while focusing on making connections. • Debrief: Turn and Talk

2. It’s Reading Workshop Day! Get your reading folder. Make updates to your reading record.

3. Mini Lesson: Good readers makeconnections to make meaning of what they read.

4. Thinking StrategiesHow we make sense of the world around us. • Questioning • Visualizing • Connecting • Inferring • Predicting • Concluding

5. Thinking Strategy: Making Connections • Text-to-Self • Text-to-Text • Text-to-World

6. Text - to - Self • Make personal connections with what you are reading. • What similarities do you and the characters share? • What experiences in the text are similar to those you have had?

7. Text – to - Text • Make connections between what you are reading and another text you have read. • PRINT: Books, novels, magazines, newspapers, poems, etc. • MEDIA: Movies, TV, YouTube videos, etc.

8. Text – to – World • Make connections between what you are reading and what is happening/has happened in the world. • Politics • History • Economics • Geography

9. Connecting – So What? • Non-example: • I have a connection to Capricorn because we both attend middle school. • So what? example: • I have a connection to Capricorn because we are both new to our school, and we have struggled to make friends.

10. Thinking Stems: Making Connections • That reminds me of… because… • I remember… because… • I have a connection to… because… • I can relate to… because… • I can connect to… because… • I see a connection between… because…

11. As you read… Focus on making connections. Write down at least THREE connections in on post-its and label its type (T2S, T2T, T2W). Be sure to use thinking stems!

12. Today’s Agenda: • Mini Lesson: Good readers make connections • Work Time: Independent reading time; focus on making connections. • Debrief: Turn and Talk – share some connections you made today.