Third Grade readers are in the thick of studying fictional characters. Students are learning about how to create mind movies by studying the authors words. We're teaching the students to have real and strong conversations about their books by using evidence from what they are reading to support their thoughts.
Just a few of the lessons we've taught:
1. Creating Mind Movies by reading the words and developing a picture in your mind.
2. Rereading when your movie becomes "blurry"
3. Stepping into the character's shoes by using your senses to further build your mind movie.
4. Using empathy to make connections to what the character is going through.
5. Establishing an opinion about a character, building onto that opinion by gathering more information and possibly revising your thoughts.
Students are also working to response in written form about their readings. Tomorrow students will be writing a letter about something they are reading at their desk (Just RIght Books!) and not only summarizing their reading but also stating their thoughts on mind movies and opinions of the character.
Students will be graded on both their ability to response appropriately showing their thinking but also on their ability to write a letter in letter form, use appropriate capitalization and punctuation.
