Reading on with interpretations in mind Interpretation Book Clubs

Examples of yesterday’s work

Teaching point Today I want to remind you that once a reader has developed an interpretation about a book, it is important that he or she stay with that idea. As readers, you can wear your interpretation like a pair of glasses, as a lens and read on in your book looking for more places that fit with or change your idea.

Hope and kek Hope can help people survive hard times and go on

In the bathing room I look hard in the shiny glass In the bathing room I look hard in the shiny glass. I wonder if I look like an America boy. I’m not sure if that would be a good thing or a not-good thing. Once there was… The next morning, I don’t know what I am feeling. I’m excited yes, Because to go to school and learn is a fine honor. But sometimes there would be singing, or a story or numbers on our fingers and toes to count. I liked the stories the best. Once there was a lion who could not roar…. a man who sailed the sea. a child who found a treasure… The stories would lift me up, the words like a breeze beneath butterfly wings, and take me far from the pain in my belly and the tight knot of my heart.

In the bathing room I look hard in the shiny glass In the bathing room I look hard in the shiny glass. I wonder if I look like an America boy. I’m not sure if that would be a good thing or a not-good thing. Once there was… The next morning, I don’t know what I am feeling. I’m excited yes, Because to go to school and learn is a fine honor. But sometimes there would be singing, or a story or numbers on our fingers and toes to count. I liked the stories the best. Once there was a lion who could not roar…. a man who sailed the sea. a child who found a treasure… The stories would lift me up, the words like a breeze beneath butterfly wings, and take me far from the pain in my belly and the tight knot of my heart.

I hope the will have stories at my school I hope the will have stories at my school. If they don’t know how, perhaps I can teach them. It isn’t such a hard thing. All you must do is say Once there was… and then let your hoping find the words.

I hope the will have stories at my school I hope the will have stories at my school. If they don’t know how, perhaps I can teach them. It isn’t such a hard thing. All you must do is say Once there was… and then let your hoping find the words. TURN AND TALK

Mid workshop

Push to connect interpretations that at first seem unrelated share Push to connect interpretations that at first seem unrelated

Homework TALKING TO DEVELOP YOUR IDEAS Readers, you’ve become accustomed to the pattern of reading and writing about reading every evening. That pattern is important—a sort of breathing in, breathing out. But to write and think well, sometimes one has to step back and not write. Sometimes one needs to fill the well. So tonight, I’m hoping you’ll have a conversation about the reading you do, but don’t write. You can confer over the phone with a club member, or in person with a family member, or you can have a conversation across the Internet or even with yourself! Please, as you confer, use the thought prompts that we studied today. Try to use them in ways that help you to have an especially provocative, brave, important conversation. And if you want, when the conversation is over—flash-draft the best ideas you came to so they don’t get lost!