Sample
Lesson Page 1
Get Writing!! series
-An awareness of personal connection to a text shows readers they are important in the reading process.
What Does It Remind You of? is the second of three kinds of reader response cues or questions in this book. This is more personal or affective than simply noticing and encouraging children to connect themselves with the text.
We want young readers to learn that who they are, where they have been, and what they think are integral parts of reading. Learning to appreciate their personal part in reading (even as they master the phonemic aspects of print) sends this message over time.
As young readers use their emerging writing skills to respond to what they read, the reading/writing connection is established in ways impossible to achieve by merely listening to a teacher describe it.
Young writers will read literature and listen to the literature read to them. They will respond both orally and in print about how they connect with the literature by responding to questions such as, "What does the story remind you of?"
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