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It’s Reading Workshop Day!. Get your reading folder and make updates! You will need post-it notes today. Today’s Agenda. Mini Lesson: Good readers ask thin and thick questions as they read. Work Time: Independent Reading while questioning Debrief: Type 1.
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It’s Reading Workshop Day! Get your reading folder and make updates! You will need post-it notes today.
Today’s Agenda • Mini Lesson: Good readers ask thin and thick questions as they read. • Work Time: Independent Reading while questioning • Debrief: Type 1
Thinking StrategiesHow we make sense of the world around us. • Questioning • Visualizing • Connecting • Inferring • Predicting • Concluding
Mini Lesson: Good readers ask thin and thick questions as they read.
Thin Questions • Thin questions deal with specific content or words you don’t know. • Answers to thin questions are short and close-ended.
Thick Question • A question that requires more than a one or two word response. • It deals with the big picture and large concepts • Thick answers are involved, complex, and open-ended.
Goldilocks and the Three Bears • Who were the main characters in the story? • Thin • Where did this story take place? • Thin • What does the word “porridge” mean? • Thin • How would you feel if someone broke into your house? • Thick • What is the lesson of this story? • Thick
Thinking Stems: Questioning THIN THICK Why…? What if…? What might…? How would I feel…? How does ___ feel about…? I wonder why…? How come…? How could…? What is happening…? So what…? • Who…? • What…? • When…? • Where…? • How many…? • What does the word ___ mean?
As you read, write thin and thick questions on post-it notes. Place them on the page in your book where you had the question.
Period 1 • Debrief: Type 1 • On your post-it notes, turn at least onethin questions into thick questions. • Homework: Continue to read and record questions on post-it notes.
Period 2-7 • Debrief: Type 1 • On your post-it notes, turn your thin questions into thick questions. • Homework: Continue to read record questions on post-it notes. If you own one, bring an iPod to class tomorrow.