Today I introduced Harry Potter as our next read aloud book. We discussed the various purposes of read aloud, most important being that I can model what deep reading looks like and different strategies that kids can use when they are reading. I also love having books that everyone in the class as a common text that we can refer to all year long when learning new reading and writing skills. Harry Potter is one of those books that literally has almost every literary skill we will be learning about this year....and I have found that fewer and fewer kids each year have read the books! At the end of class we had read the first chapter, which was 17 pages long. I had the kids brainstorm and create a list of everything we learned in the first 17 pages- she the picture of our list below. I pointed out to them that this is what they should be doing when they are reading at home...one doesn't have to wait to finish a book before they get started on a book talk. They can be asking themselves every night when they finish reading- What did I learn today? and then do some thinking around different actions/conversations that they read and ask themselves what those behaviors/conversations tell them about the character(s).
Homework: IXL G10G4 and L1- quiz tomorrow! Fill out your reading log and work on your book talk!
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