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Some weeks ago, when the school year was brand new, I wrote about setting up our Reading Journals for a year of writing about our reading. Now we are approaching the end of the first marking period, and the truth is that we are just beginning to be ready to write about our reading.
I was thinking about this on Sunday night as I participated in Kylene Beers and Bob Probst’s Notice and Note webinar. The six signposts of Notice and Note have anchored our read aloud work as we’ve made our way through Priscilla Cummings’ Red Kayak; they have helped us identify places where we can notice, pause, reflect and deepen our understanding of the text. The purpose of the signposts, as Kylene and Bob write, is:
to teach our students to be alert for certain features as they read, to take responsibility themselves for pausing and reflecting when they spot them, to own and ask a few potentially powerful questions at those moments, and to be willing to share and revise their thoughts in responsible conversation with others…We need to keep reminding the students, explicitly, what we are asking them to do – notice, pause, reflect. And we need to make sure that the language we use doesn’t just help them learn more about any one particular text but is generalizable
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I recently attended a presentation by children’s book author, Alice McGinty. Alice is the author of the beautifully written and informative picture book biographies Gandhi: A March to the Sea and Darwin. (Click here to see Alice’s website and her other publications.)
Alice’s presentation was centered around using biographies to make science content accessible to kids. She also spoke about some considerations when writing biographies. As a writer, I found this part of her presentation particularly interesting. Here are some of my notes:
Biographies are a sort of bridge between fiction and nonfiction. Although nonfiction in content, biographies use story to present the facts.
Writers of biography know they must draw their reader into the story. There are several “points of connection” a reader could make. to the story.
- Connection through Character
Readers appreciate being able to identify with a character. Writers should research the subject of their biography to find a trait, flaw, or feeling that is common to other people. For example, an unwavering and persistent curiosity or a feeling of being different than others are both relatable characteristics. Writers must research not only the facts, but also find the subject&