Offer any reflections that you have after completing the book.

For your consideration:  What graphic novels might work to demonstrate and model synthesis?

For your consideration:  What books or poems do you teach in which visualizing would be a critical or valuable strategy?  Explain how you might use the strategy.

For your consideration:  What activities/assignments do you do in science and social studies where you might  connect and need this "determining importance" lesson?

For your consideration:  What songs, besides  those listed in the chapter, could you use in order to encourage questioning?

For your consideration:  What "guessing games" do you use frequently to help students grow their ability to infer?

For your consideration:  How do you keep students from getting caught up in long stories, always making their own text-to-self connections, which can get the class side-tracked?

For your consideration:  How many demonstrations of "text-thinking" will need to happen for students to internalize and use that strategy?

For your consideration:  How do you use thinking and talking as part of your language arts instruction?

Thank you for being a part of our summer professional reading book club.  For each chapter of Comprehension Connections, I will create a post. 

•  You may respond in the comments section.  
• You may comment in any way that you wish.  
• Consider your reactions, ideas from the book that would be particularly helpful at a particular grade level, pitfalls of using a strategy, or ideas that you have for using the strategy.
  
• If you think of mentor texts that would be particularly helpful to use or ways that you might use something from our reading series, please include those ideas because they will be beneficial to everyone.
• Please comment at least once on each chapter.
• Please plan to complete your all your comments by August 15.  This will allow you to work at your own pace, and it will not be a pressing deadline if you are out of town from time to time.