Writing about Reading Means Reading with a Writerly Wide-Awakeness Interpretation Book Clubs
Reflecting on yesterday Take a piece of your writing about reading out that you are really proud of, something that feels like your best work. Now look at it and decide what part works. Look at your reading partner’s, too, and see what works.
Teaching point Today I want to teach you that people read differently when they write about their reading. Writers see more, notice more, think more…and everything becomes grist for their thinking mill. When you read as a writer, you bring a writerly wide-awakeness, an extra alertness, to your reading. You notice stuff others would pass right by , and you make something of what you see.
What does writing about reading do for us?
What does writing about reading do for us? Helps us pay attention to detail? Notice things we may otherwise miss?
Now you try
Now you try Things we might have thought Kek sympathizes with the cow-maybe she reminds him of himself. Kek notices things an uses words like a poet. Kek sees his new world in ways that show us about his old world.
Mid workshop Remember this?
Mid workshop
Letting one thought lead to more Share Letting one thought lead to more Thinking about the whole book, what are the most important ideas? List them across your fingers
Letting one thought lead to more Share Letting one thought lead to more Thinking about the whole book, what are the most important ideas? List them across your fingers Now think: Which of those ideas is most interesting to you right now?
Letting one thought lead to more Share Letting one thought lead to more Thinking about the whole book, what are the most important ideas? List them across your fingers Now think: Which of those ideas is most interesting to you right now? Now write about this idea….BUT here is the thing. After you record your first thought, try to go from tat first thought to a second thought about that same topic.
Talking and writing to grow new ideas
Mid workshop
Homework As you read, see if you can push yourself to think and write about some new topics. If you’ve been thinking a lot about character, consider shifting to a study of plot in your story, or of the setting.