1. Lesson 10: Seeing a Text through the Eyes of Other Readers
Interpretation Book Clubs

2. Connection Some moments stay with us forever – Good and bad
A book club can be that way too! If done well. Your book club is with you, sitting on your shoulder whenever you read.
Often one person will find something that another person will miss. Ideas then grow.
Happy moments: performing in a concert or competition, summer camp, inventing something new (especially with a friend)
Sad moments: losing someone we care about or being hurt
2. As you read, you see a descriptive passage and want to skim past it but think, Eva would really enjoy this part. You read it more closely and find yourself almost loving it too!
3. For example, in my book club a major character was killed and I was mad at the author for doing this. One of my book club members said, “But he had to die. Do you see how it empowered the other characters to take charge.” Wow, we had not thought of that and so now we read thinking that sometimes someone must die.
If you have read harry Potter, you get it. Dumbledore had to die.

3. Teaching Point
Today I want to teach you that the best part of reading with others is that it changes you.
You end up viewing the text through the eyes of others, and therefore seeing more than you would have otherwise seen. 1. 2.
3. Let me tell you the story I did once with Charlotte’s web. It was a student and parent book club. One of the students spoke up and said, this book teaches that you should not give up and you may come through in the end. What do you think? (thumbs up or down) Well half the group thought this was a good theme and the other half thought this was crazy. Were they reading the same book? They were like, “you think this is a survival story. No way. This is a love story. The theme is Sometimes in life you love someone so much that you would do anything for them.
So can you picture who thought what? The kids thought Charlottes web is a story about a runt who almost gets itself killed and manages to survive against the odds. The grown ups thought this book was about a generous spider named Charlotte who loved her friend so much that she gave her life for him.
Which is right?
You are right, they both are and it was because more eyes were looking at the book that they could see more than one theme.

4. Your Next Question should be: The answer should be from the text!
Let me help you!
Someone in YOUR club will start talking and you will think,” You think that’s the important part of this book? Geez, I see it differently.”
Your Next Question should be:
What made that seem so important to you?
The answer should be from the text!
It was repeated here……. And here…… and here…… OR
It was unusual and stood out OR
It seems to be highlighted here……..
It could also stem from their life experiences and what is important to them. That is what it stuck out to them!

5. Let me help you some more.
Your Goal is:
Listen longer to teach other
Devote more time to follow each other’s thinking
Be willing to read the text with other’s ideas in your mind.

6. How Club Members Learn from Each Other’s Ideas
You Try!
How Club Members Learn from Each Other’s Ideas
Readers give examples of their own and each other’s ideas.
Reader’s restate each other’s ideas in their own words.
Reader’s allow other thoughts to change their own.
Reader’s add onto to what each person is saying, growing a larger theory together.
Reader’s use their Writing About Reading to fuel their talk.
Let’s watch a short video clip.
Pay attention to: the readers are not only telling each other their ideas but they are also changing their thinking as they listen to each other.
Be on the lookout for the specific things you see these kids doing that shows they are learning from each other and are changed because of this conversation.
Write ideas: record on a chart and then share some of the PP ideas.

7. As You Read……
For your book clubs to become life changers like a summer camp….
You need to go into a book club with your ideas and willing to hear or learn something to make you read differently. – not just today but always.
Add to chart: “Be open to seeing……”
Read and be ready to talk in 20 minutes.

8. Pause
As you read and come to the end of a book, I have a small tip for you when you write and talk about your reading.
Share what the book is really about AND
Share why you love this book.
Think like a book reviewer!
For example Ganwar keeps trying to get Kek to give up. But at the end of that passage, Kek begins to cry a bit. That is a shift because Kek is starting to crack. We learn if he does not hold onto his hope, he will fall apart. Sometimes hope is the only thing that keeps you moving forward in life. Keep reading.

9. Share Keep in mind your Constitution! Be positive today!
Tell a partner you like their thinking
Push them to add some evidence
Don’t jump from idea to idea without taking time to develop your thinking.
Begin with one person’s idea and talk – then move on. Do your ideas connect?

10. Book Club Assignment
One person talk- share your ideas, plan to talk awhile, show your club members places in your text that helped you grow this idea. Explain why the idea matters to you.
Listeners: Encourage your club member to talk at length. Help make it easy for them. “Where did you find that?” “Can you say more about that?”
Then, pick up that idea and go with it, add to it, find more examples, ask questions, talk about why it matters.
When the conversation becomes repetitive or loses energy, switch and hear a second reader’s ideas and go again.
Rank your meeting from is amazing and 1 is uh oh!
Read to your next sticky note tonight! Be ready to talk tomorrow.
Talk for 10 minutes. Remind them to rank their talk today from is uh-oh and 5 is awesome. Decide where you are reading to tonight.
If time they should WAR. If no time, have them write or flag to get ready for clubs tomorrow.

17. HOmework
Readers, for homework, continue last night’s assignment. Keep reading your book club novel. Keep jotting answers to these questions: “What are the problems that the main character is facing?” “Where in the story is the main character facing that problem?”
Last night, you began writing a two-page entry. Continue working on the entry. Be ready to share it with the class tomorrow. Remember that you want to take the leap to figure out what the author might be saying about not only that character, but about people, in life.