Reading Reactions: Big Idea

Oh my gosh, I just figured out how to include "reactions" in the blog!  Even Blogger knows readers react to what they've read!  Although you're options are prefab...  Check them out at the bottom of each post.


Here's another example of a reading reaction.  We've been talking about big ideas, and how part of being a reader is thinking about what we can learn about people and the world from texts.  A big idea is one that transcends the book itself.  It's an idea that's true almost everywhere almost all the time, like the idea you'll see in Frey's reaction to Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech ("Don't judge people if you don't know them.").  Don't worry if you don't see evidence of this kind of thinking in the reactions your child is doing independently at this point.  We're exploring big ideas as part of our read aloud, which is a highly scaffolded setting.  Thanks for reading.