Day 14

We often say to our students, "Reading is thinking."  It's true.  Consider all of the thinking that happens when you read:

• visualizing the setting
• predicting what might happen next
• evaluating character traits
• making connections with the events of a story
• wondering about the meaning of a word

and the list goes on.

Encouraging this thinking as you read with your child is easy to do.  Talk about the story together.  Sometimes we also write about our thinking when we are reading to help us remember important ideas or maybe because we are reading a textbook with valuable information that we will need.  At school, we jot notes to ourselves on sticky-notes and place them in our books.  This helps us when we talk about our reading with our peers and teachers.  Here are some students in action: