Over the last few weeks, first grade readers have focused on fiction texts to help answer a big question: What makes a family?
To help answer this question, students used a variety of comprehension strategies during our reading of these texts. Making connections, asking questions, visualizing, and inferring are strategies readers often use, and all help the reader stay focused on the story and understand what they are reading.
Students also applied these strategies after reading. In Room 123, we call that taking our thinking deeper. In both large and small group discussions, students grappled with the problems and issues presented in these texts. Then, they identified the important messages contained in them.
Through this process, students arrived at some important answers to the big question. Take a look at some of their thinking:
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