Book+Letters

*November 12, 2010
Dear Students, We will be exploring a new way to share your book letters within our classroom community. This page is primarily for that purpose. Every two weeks you will post one of your book letter from the past two weeks following the Book Letter Rubric guidelines. Your participation and completion of the biweekly assignment will count as a portion of your reading grade. Please rememer to be respectful of the safety issues we discussed about online usage of this weblog. Let's have a great time sharing our thoughts and responding to each other about the reading we are doing this year. Remember "Real Reading is Thinking" Please post your book letters under the post through the discussion link at the top of this page after you have written and peer conferenced to make any necessarity revisions. Use the rubric to evaluate your work. Each month additional guidelines will be added to include reading strategies.

Sincerely, Mrs. Chaney

The proceeding was originally published November 12, 2010 at http://starreaderclass.blogspot.com/2010/11/welcome-students-we-will-be-exploring.html Dear Students, Please proofread your first book letter in your composition journal and reflect on the three events you shared with me. Stories usually present a problem - something that needs to be answered or changed - and one or more of the characters must search for a way to solve the problem. We should ask questions as we read the beginning of a story to try to identify a problem. Ask yourself "What was wrong or what did the main character or characters need to fix or figure out?" Remember another word for ** problem ** is conflict. As a story comes to a close, the main character usually finds a ** solution ** or ** resolution **to the problem. Ask yourself "How did the main character solve the problem?

Some times an author does not always directly tell the reader everything that is happening in a story. Good readers use their own knowledge and details that the author does not include to make ** inferences **, or ** draw reasonable conclusions ** about the characters and the plot. To make ** inferences **, __**readers analyze, or think critically about, the character's experiences and compare these to their own experiences.**__ Did you analyze the characters and events in the story to make inferences or draw reasonable conclusions?

Be sure to include the problem, solution, and at least one instance or example of how you made an inference while you were reading. These post will be due on your scheduled book letter due day.

Thank You, Mrs. Chaney

**__A shortened version of written text that gives the main ideas/main events__**
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 * ====== **Nonfiction ** ====== || ====== **Fiction ** ====== ||
 * ===== *What is the main topic? ===== || ===== *Who are the main characters? ===== ||
 * ===== *What are the main ideas? ===== || ===== *Where and When is the setting? ===== ||
 * ===== *What re the most important details? ===== || ===== *What is the main event? ===== ||
 * ===== *How do those details support the main idea? ===== || ===== *What are the important details? ===== ||
 * ===== *What are the key words or phrases? ===== || ===== *What is the conflict? ===== ||
 * ===== *What information is not important? ===== || ===== *How is the conflict solved? ===== ||

=== =Skim and  Scan =

__** moving your eyes quickly over the page to get the information you read **__
Skim ﻿when you want to read something quickly **to get a general idea** **.** Scan when you want to read somethinkg quickly **to find a specific piece of information**
 * Skim if you are previewing a book for selection.
 * Skim if you are rereading some pages before moving on in a book.
 * Skim when looking through a newspaper or magazine.