1. Learning to Think Analytically
Interpretation book clubs

2. Homework
Readers, tonight, continue to think analytically about the books you are reading. Below you’ll see a copy of today’s chart to help you remember the different ways you might think and write about your reading. You’ll also want to refer to the Post-its you jotted during today’s gallery walk. They will give you new ideas for the work you can be doing.
Questions that Can Help You Think Analytically
Divide into parts
• What are the important parts or scenes?
• How does this part fit into the book as a whole?
Rank
• What passage best represents . . . ?
• What evidence tells us the most about . . . ?
Compare
• How does . . . compare with . . . ?
• How does . . . when he was . . . compare with . . . now?

3. Need to jot
Please take a minute and jot down your thoughts about reading workshop..

4. Teaching point
Today I want to teach you that to think analytically, a person decide, “I’m going to try thinking…” and then think in any one of those ways…and then see if that thinking yields new insights . Often it will.

5. Let’s go back to Reader’s workshop thoughts
Think about the parts

6. Let’s go back to Reader’s workshop thoughts
Think about the parts
Think analytically by making selections and/or ranking, what helps the most, least

7. Let’s go back to Reader’s workshop thoughts
Think about the parts
Think analytically by making selections and/or ranking, what helps the most, least
Think analytically by thinking in comparisons? Same/different then WW? Same/different small group and mini lessons, Same/different fiction, nonfiction.

8. Now think analytically about Home of the brave
1. Make a plan. Are you going to divide into parts, select, rank or compare?

10. One way to compare…

11. And a way to Rank

13. Remember, when you write about your reading, it’s an invitation for you to think analytically, rather than jotting down any old idea that pops into your mind.

14. share
Gallery Walk
While you look at how others jotted their thinking, be sure to take notes on post it notes so you can refer to this next time you write deeper.