1. It’s Reading Workshop Day!
Get your reading folder and make updates!
You will need post-it notes today.

2. Today’s Agenda
Mini Lesson: Good readers ask thin and thick questions as they read.
Work Time: Independent Reading while questioning
Debrief: Type 1

3. Thinking Strategies How we make sense of the world around us.
Questioning
Visualizing
Connecting
Inferring
Predicting
Concluding

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

6. Thin Questions
Thin questions deal with specific content or words you don’t know.
Answers to thin questions are short and close-ended.

8. 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.

9. Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Who were the main characters in the story?
Thin
Where did this story take place?
What does the word “porridge” mean?
How would you feel if someone broke into your house?
Thick
What is the lesson of this story?

10. Thinking Stems: Questioning
THICK
Who…?
What…?
When…?
Where…?
How many…?
What does the word ___ mean?
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…?

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

12. 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.

13. 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. 