Monitor Comprehension Follow your Inner Conversation

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Monitor ComprehensionFollow your Inner
Conversation

• The Wednesday Surprise
• by
• Eve Bunting

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Connect Engage

• Inner conversation what is it?
• How readers get stuck and continue to read
• Book introduction
• Theres nothing more important than a readers
  thinking!
• Animal tracks

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Model

• Show inner conversation (sticky notes)
• Questions
• What is the surprise? It sounds like they are
  making something
• Compared Grandma to an actress is Grandma
  pretending not to know about Dads birthday?
  Why?
• Connections
• I remember sharing many things with my Grandma
  and her understanding me.
• Big ideas
• reading

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Guide

• Had children talk about the book so far
• Now they jot down their own inner conversation

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Collaborate

• Student inner conversation
• What is in Grandmas bag?
• I have a rock collection.
• Why did they hang red streamers?
• How come Grandma didnt learn to read when she
  was young?
• Is the surprise a cake?
• What kind of a pebble is it?
• I think she did not know how to read and now she
  learns. Yes!

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Collaborate

• Students work in groups of 3 or 4 and talked
  about their thinking
• We walked around and joined in
• We gave them copies of the books

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Share the Learning

• Chart is record of thinking
• Big ideas and lingering questions

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Follow up

• Differentiating between asking any question and
  asking questions that help you understand the
  story better!