Thoughts about Rules by Cynthia Lord: Keep or Kill?

This week in school, we started a new read aloud: Rules, by Cynthia Lord. Over the course of the week, I collected students' thoughts about the book. Today, we looked at all the thoughts from this week and decided which ones we'd keep and which ones we'd "kill." The decision was based on whether or not the idea felt like something that would lead to a good discussion. If it was something that felt more like a fact from the book or a small idea that wouldn't lead to much conversation, we "killed" the idea. Check out our list of thoughts and see what we kept and what we killed. (If we were on the fence about keep it or kill it, we kept it just to be safe.)