It’s Reading Workshop Day!

Get your reading folder and make

updates! You will need post-it

notes today.

Today’s Agenda

• Mini Lesson: Good readers ask thin and thick questions as they read.

• Work Time: Independent Reading while questioning

• Debrief: Type 1

Thinking StrategiesHow we make sense of the world around us.

• Questioning• Visualizing• Connecting• Inferring• Predicting• Concluding

Mini Lesson:

Good readers ask thin and

thick questions as

they read.

Thin Questions• Thin questions deal with specific

content or words you don’t know.• Answers to thin questions are short

and close-ended.

Thick Question• A question that requires more than a one

or two word response. • It deals with the big picture and large

concepts• Thick answers are involved, complex, and

open-ended.

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

• Who were the main characters in the story?• Thin• Where did this story take place?• Thin• What does the word “porridge” mean?• Thin• How would you feel if someone broke into

your house?• Thick• What is the lesson of this story?• Thick

Thinking Stems: Questioning

THIN• Who…?• What…?• When…?• Where…?• How many…?• What does the

word ___ mean?

THICK• Why…?• What if…?• What might…?• How would I feel…?• How does ___ feel about…?• I wonder why…?• How come…?• How could…?• What is happening…?• So what…?

As you read, write thin and thick questions on post-it notes.

Place them on the page in your book where you had the question.

Period 1

• Debrief: Type 1–On your post-it notes, turn at least

one thin questions into thick questions.

• Homework: Continue to read and record questions on post-it notes.

Period 2-7

• Debrief: Type 1–On your post-it notes, turn your

thin questions into thick questions.• Homework: Continue to read record

questions on post-it notes. If you own one, bring an iPod to class tomorrow.