This amazing book is written by David Wiesner and you can see its lovely Caldecott Medal on the cover. The book is a wordless picture book that tells the story of an amazing underwater camera. We used this book to show how students use details from the text and their schema to help them make inferences.
I keep telling the students that to me the most important part of an inference is the evidence that the students use to make the inference. I even think the evidence is more important than the inference itself. Today I really started to see some very sophisticated evidence being used to make inferences. We were looking at facial reactions to make inferences. We used our experiences at beaches to make inferences. I hope the students keep focusing on using evidence from the text along with their schema to make great inferences.
David Wiesner is an amazing author. The next time you are at the library I suggest you grab some of his books. My favorites include Tuesday, Sector 7 and Hurricane. All these books are the wordless picture books that can really allow our students to make inferences.
As we keep reading the book Charlotte's Web, we keep seeing more and more ways that it connects to The One and Only Ivan. The students have even started a compare and contrast page in their reader's notebook where they can find similarities and differences between the two books. Today we all found one major similarity a promise. You can ask about the two promises from the books.
Besides comparing and contrasting we are also focussing on looking for signposts as we read both books. The idea for these signposts comes from the book Notice and Note.
One of the signposts that we have been talking about is the Aha Moment. To me the Aha Moment is when a character finally figures something out or realizes something or decides something important. In the book The One and Only Ivan, Ivan had a major Aha Moment when he realized that he was living inside a cage. The whole book Ivan thought he lived in a domain but then one day he suddenly realized that it was a cage.
The whole idea of these signposts it that you notice the signpost and then you stop and ask yourself a question. The question we will be asking when we find an Aha Moment is...How might this change things? In The One and Only Ivan we decided that Ivan would start to get mad and try to escape.
I love these signposts. I have started to search for them in my reading. In almost every book I read I find at least one example of all the signposts. When I stop and notice these signposts as I read, I find that I understand the book on such a deeper level. I hope if you are reading a book you could search for the Aha Moment. Also you can talk about Aha Moments that our students are finding in the books they are reading.
It is extra innings and I am extra tired. I hope you had a quick Monday.
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