Session 7: Interacting & Monitoring Independent Reading Session 7: Interacting & Monitoring

Session 7: Interacting & Monitoring “Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.” Charles William Eliot

Session 7: Interacting & Monitoring Teaching Points Readers evaluate lines about the characters and their problems to make decisions about what they like or dislike about each of the novels. Readers notice details and lines to stay connected to characters or problems in the novel. Readers create theories about the author’s purpose and begin to predict the plot. Readers notice and connect details and actions and identify central idea(s) as they continue reading.

Session 7: Interacting & Monitoring Active Engagement 1 Review your Collecting Text bookmarks, highlighting the entries that involve choices the subject makes.

Session 7: Interacting & Monitoring Independent Practice 1 Consider the choices and write one paragraph about your opinions of the subject, in light of the decisions s/he makes in the book.

Session 7: Interacting & Monitoring Active Engagement 2 Review your Collecting Text bookmarks, highlighting the lines and details that contain clues about the author’s purpose.

Session 7: Interacting & Monitoring Independent Practice 2 Write a one paragraph entry in your readers’/writers’ notebook that states and explains your theory about the author’s purpose, Include two quotes from the book as your evidence. Also make a prediction about the remaining section of the book.

Session 7: Interacting & Monitoring You are to Complete/Submit 1 paragraph about the subject of your text 1 paragraph about the author’s purpose with 2 pieces of evidence from the text. Read for Homework and fill out your Reading Log & Collecting Texts Bookmark