What are the strengths and weaknesses associated with each of these ways of coping? 1.Keeping your feelings to yourself 2.Talking about it with someone 3.Using your imagination to cheer yourself up

Active Reading Pink = This is probably IMPORTANT to the story Blue = This is CONFUSING to me; I have a QUESTION about this.

What Was Important? Share with your group one of the places you marked as important. EXPLAIN WHY you think it will be important. What questions did you have?

Critical Writing What is the exposition of the story? (characters, setting, conflict) What is rising action of the story? (early events)

Factual or Interpretive? 1.How old are you? 2.What are the names of your sixth grade teachers? 3.How long have you gone to Wright Elementary school? 4.What is the most important part of the school day? 5.How can teachers help students learn more at Wright?

Factual (Detail) Question Is verifiable—ONE answer found on the page. Who, What, When, Where, How? Ask these questions to better understand facts about the characters, setting, and plot of a story.

Critical Writing Review the spots you marked with a BLUE Post It. Write one factual question you have. (Who, what, when, where, how?) Write one interpretive question you have. (Why, how?

What Do You See? (7 min.) When told to do so, ONE member of the group carefully removes the cover of the basket. DO NOT TOUCH ANYTHING IN THE BASKET. Make observations with your eyes, not your hands. What do you see? When told to do so, cover the basket and make a list of what you saw.

A Second Look When told to do so, remove the cover from the basket and see if you observe anything else in the basket. What did you miss the first time? Add the new details to your list.

Finish this sentence: Looking at the basket a second time is like reading a story a second time because…

Second Reading 1.Make note of at least one location that you see a person facing the truth. 2.Make note of at least one location that you see a person avoiding the truth.

Critical Writing A. Who is facing the truth? What evidence supports this? B. Who is avoiding the truth? What evidence supports this?

What are the most important questions we have about the story? 1.Skim through the story to remind yourself of the questions you had yesterday. 2.Each member of the group writes ONE question on a sentence strip. The first word should start with a capital letter and the sentence should end with a question mark. 3.Compare your questions and determine which ones are factual and which ones are interpretive.

Critical Writing You have the rest of the class period to produce a written response to a prompt about this story. It is a writing grade, so pay attention to the rubric. You can following the writing process, but the final draft is due at the end of class.

Categorize the Questions Open your folder and read the questions. Place the questions into categories. Explain your reasoning for the categorization you created.

Evaluate the Question Which questions in your folder will help you better understand the following? Why? Characters Setting Plot Theme

CW: Questions about Questions! Why do good readers ask questions? Why is it necessary to ask different types of questions?

Interpretive (Infer) Question Has at least TWO different ways of answering the question. Why, How, and So What? To answer, you must make inferences by connecting ideas from the text to your own prior knowledge. Ask these questions to make connections, make predictions, and draw conclusions.

Factual (Detail) Question Is verifiable—ONE answer found on the page. Who, What, When, Where, How? Ask these questions to better understand facts about the characters, setting, and plot of a story.

Do You Want to Build a Snowman??? Let’s make some snowballs… Put your name and a #1 at the top of your paper. Write a question about “Ghost Cat” that when answered would help someone better understand the story. Label it Factual or Interpretive Crumple the paper to make a snowball.

Point of View Review First person point of view involves the use of either of the two pronouns “I” and “we”. THE NARRATOR IS IN THE STORY. WE ONLY KNOW HIS THOUGHTS. After the police officer came to our school, me and my friend Rowley decided to start our own detective agency. Second person point of view employs the pronoun “you”. THE NARRATOR IS NOT IN THE STORY. Sometimes you cannot clearly discern between anger and frustration. Third person point of view uses pronouns like “he”, “she”, “it”, “they” or a name. This is also known as omniscient or “all knowing.” THE NARRATOR IS NOT IN THE STORY, BUT KNOWS EVERYTHING ABOUT THE CHARACTERS. Mr. Stewart is a principled man. He acts by the book and no one can deceive him easily. Johnny, on the other hand, is gullible and easily taken advantage of.

Which point of view? But still…she’d made a promise to help on this quest. Her friends were counting on her. They’d saved her when Midas had turned her to gold. They’d brought her back to life. She couldn’t repay them with lies.

Create a Visual If the bag represents the story, where would you place the screen bean to represent point of view? First Person Point of View Third Person Point of View

These pictures are like point of view because…

Keeper Questions These questions usually have answers that are found throughout the story. What are our Keeper Questions? Write this question next to “Big Idea.”

Shared Inquiry Discussion 1.Read the story carefully before participating in the discussion. 2. Discuss ONLY the story everyone has read. 3. Support your ideas with evidence from the story. 4. Listen to other participants and respond to them directly. 5. Expect the leader to only ASK questions.