Reading About Migration!
Hello Everyone!
Yesterday, everyone chose a chapter book / novel related to real-life migration or refugee stories. We had a wide selection to choose from thanks to our Suncrest and District libraries!
Over the next two weeks, we will be reading this book carefully to learn about the human migration experience in relation to our unit. We are also looking to practice our reading comprehension skills, using Adrienne Gear’s Reading Power prompts as a guide. Things we will look to do are:
- Become more aware of how stories are structured — the elements of a good story; how dialogue is presented with appropriate capitalization, spacing, and punctuation; and how a story flows from beginning to end.
- Visualize as we read, such that we use our senses to gather information and a picture of the setting and characters.
- Make Connections as we read, finding ways to connect our own lives or current events to what we are reading.
- Question as we read, asking deeper questions about the story that go beyond the basic information presented in the book.
- Infer as we read, becoming a detective to think about the deeper meaning of a book, or to understand what isn’t written down in the text by the author.
- Transform our thinking as we read, reflecting on how what we are reading is changing our thoughts or perspectives. What impact is the book having on us?
The final task will be to do a mini book report on your e-port. You will use elements of the assignments I give you on each area of reading comprehension to help you create the book report. Enjoy your reading!
Ms. D