Readers Record Their Thinking

Explicit Instruction/Teacher modeling

• Show students a chart where you have stuck sticky notes with symbols next to what the symbol represents. For example: A heart for favorite part, an exclamation mark for an exciting part.
• Go over the chart.
• Start reading the book and stop to think at the pages you have marked with a sticky note. For example: I put a sticky note with a heart here because this was my favorite part. I put a sticky here with a question mark because I was wondering about….

Guided Practice

• Model one page in the same book without a sticky note this time, thinking out loud as you read the page. For example: Hmmm. I think this page is really funny. I might put a sticky with a smiley face here so that I can remember to share this with my partner later.

Independent working time

• Ask students to go back to their desks with their book bags/boxes or familiar books and pick one book they will want to record their thinking on and one they will want to share with a partner.
• Give students three sticky notes each to record their thinking. You may also want to use one of the bookmarks listed under Materials and Preparation to facilitate note taking.
• Walk around and check in with students. Share a few student examples with the rest of the class.