Notice and Note Again and Again Video

March 15, 2022 Post a Comment

In my last mail service, I shared the success I've had in weaving close reading into our reading instruction in 2nd grade. The act of reading text multiple times with support has a clear advantage for master readers in regards to fluency, vocabulary development and comprehension. Once I got the basics downward, I started looking around for literature on close reading that would guide my mini-lessons.

Once I got my hands on Notice and Note I knew it was exactly what I had been searching for, even though it is written for grades 4+.

The authors polled teachers in grades four-12 to compile a listing of the nigh often studied novels and so began to look for similarities in plot, character development and theme. What resulted was a set of "signposts". As drivers, when nosotros encounter a sign such as this we know what is about to happen and change our driving accordingly.

Similarly, successful readers tin read the signs that the author leaves behind to know what'southward coming in the text and modify their thinking appropriately.

My favorite instance that I accept been able to apply to many of our read-alouds is the "Again and Again" signpost because information technology seemed most relevant to real life. If I need my husband to remember that we have plans on Saturday, I tin can't expect that mentioning this once volition be enough to ensure he remembers. Delicately, careful non to nag, I weave the mention of those plans into several conversations considering it'southward important to me that he keeps those plans in mind when he schedules other things. My kiddos responded well to this story and could certainly relate to such tactics beingness used by their own mothers.

Similarly, authors will mention things "Once again and Again" and when they exercise nosotros must ask ourselves: What is it that they want us to understand and why is it and so important to the author that we understand it?

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To teach this to my 2nd graders, I created a mini-lesson using the book Sheila Rae, the Brave in which the author repeats some variation of "Sheila Rae wasn't afraid of anything" on well-nigh every folio. Very apace my students picked upwardly on the repetition. During my starting time attempts at close reading I might have been satisfied but past the fact that they'd noticed it, but Notice and Note had me expecting more from such a realization.

What do you think the writer wants to make certain that you understand almost Sheila in the beginning part of this volume?

Through turning and talking, my students were able to articulate that the writer actually wanted us to empathize that Sheila Rae was brave.

Why practise y'all think that the author, Kevin Henkes, felt that he had to piece of work so hard to make sure that nosotros believed that Sheila Rae was very dauntless?

From here, with guidance, my students best-selling that mice are not often thought to be brave, but rather shy and timid. Upon finishing the book, I shared my thoughts aloud that when Sheila Rae became scared, I was quite surprised. Fifty-fifty though it shouldn't really surprise me that a baby mouse would feel afraid when she was lost in the woods. I was surprised because Henkes had completely convinced me that Sheila Rae wasn't agape of anything. He had convinced me by saying and so "Once again and Again."

The exercise of repetition is so common in books for young readers that noticing "Once again and Again" signpost was the perfect mini-lesson for my 2d graders.My students are now independently noticing this practice and discussing its purpose in our shared read-alouds and their own texts. Thank you to Notice and Notation, the highest purpose of shut reading has come up to fruition in my classroom:my students are reading like writers.

I began to ask myself: What other signposts can work for the main grades? And why do the strategies and Find and Notation seem to be written exclusively for grades iv+?

I have had similar success with mini-lessons on…

"Word of the Wiser", where another graphic symbol gives the main grapheme advice as in Strega Nona past Toni dePaolo and
"Memory Moment", where the author reveals a retention or a flashback to share important information with the reader, which happens throughout the book Holes past Louis Sachar.

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Absolutely, some of the signposts do not occur equally frequently with the text complication that is typically encountered by primary grades, such as "Ah Ha Moments" and "Contrasts and Contradictions".

Nonetheless, I think there is a treasure trove of other signposts waiting to be recognized in picture books and chapter books for primary readers.

For instance, I've taught a signpost lesson to help them notice "plot twists" – or events in the text that get differently than the chief character expected, such as when Ramona cracks a raw egg on her head (intending to but remove the beat of a hard-boiled egg) in Ramona Quimby, Historic period 8. Or when Wilbur – taking the suggestion of the goose – breaks free from his pen and discovers that liberty is not at all what he thought it would be. (Charlotte's Web)

It was clear to us that the manner a character responds to a "plot twist" tell usa A LOT about the graphic symbol. They tin can indicate a starting or catastrophe indicate in the equation of how a graphic symbol changes over the course of the text.

I'm working on developing a few more as we current of air our way through many amazing texts this year. Though my 2d graders are non yet automatically reaching for the writer'southward intent when reading or discussing a text, our modeled think-alouds pb to richer dialogue and a deeper understanding of the text equally a whole.