![]() ![]() They became my fourth grade confidants and cheerleaders. Often when I am reading professional literature, I have those moments when I wonder, “Why didn’t I think of that?” “Why haven’t I been doing this? I used to.” Or, “I can’t wait to try what I have learned.” As I was reading this book, I couldn’t wait to go into the classroom and share the strategies with my students. The student conversations that are included in every chapter and with each strategy give you an opportunity to delve into the mind of students and understand their thinking. When one of their conversations with students began to go off topic – way off topic – and it was difficult to get the students back on topic, they admitted tongue in cheek that they were beginning to regret using real world examples in their lessons. They also throw in a bit of humor, often at their own expense. When you are reading the book, the sidebars make you feel as if the authors are speaking directly to you. They share their research successes, mistakes, retakes, and the steps they took to move forward. Kylene Beers and Robert Probst are about honesty and openness. Each chapter includes a conversation about the authors’ research, student examples, and a section with common questions teachers might ask. The book is divided into four sections: Issues to Consider, The Importance of Stance, The Power of Signposts, and The Role of Strategies. This leads to a much deeper understanding of the text and assists students in creating evidence-based responses as they continue to read. Signposts provide a signal to students to slow down their reading and think. The authors have taken what they know about reading and used it to introduce strategies called Signposts, a reading routine that provides students with a better understanding of “what to look for” as they are reading. One of the best resources I have seen to help us teach non-fiction reading strategies is this new book from Kylene Beers and Robert Probst. I need to teach students how to become immersed in the text so that they not only ask questions about their reading but question what they are reading. I would love to say that I have been teaching close reading all along, but as I’ve reflected more deeply in the past year, I’ve realized that teaching “close reading” is not enough. Teachers who were enamored with Notice & Note: Strategies for Close Reading will fall in love again. Reading Nonfiction: Notice & Note Stances, Signposts, and Strategies is hitting the bookstores this week. Get ready to be challenged, enlightened, and invigorated. All emotions are signposts to what you value or need.Reading Nonfiction: Notice & Note Stances, Signposts, and Strategies □ How can I bring a little bit of what I value or need into my life today? What small action or step could I take today?Įqually when you feel positive emotions like joy, excitement, admiration - get curious as well. □What is this emotion about a situation or a person telling me about what I need or value? And then ask yourself the following two questions: Just stream of conscious writing about everything you feel. □When you feel difficult emotions like frustration, anger, sadness: get curious! Signposts to something you need or something you value. Your emotions can be such valuable signposts! Feeling agency is so important for your wellbeing! And it showed me the agency I have even in restricted circumstances. But going somewhere new, seeing new vistas brought light and joy. Obviously one walk doesn’t fully satisfy this need. The light energy we all felt after this walk carried through the rest of our Sunday. We all came back with a big smile on our faces and with renewed energy. Half an hour later we were in the car, driving to a nature reserve, a 30 minute drive from our home. ![]() I talked to my husband and kids about my plan. This will literally widen your perspective, you will be seeing new things and will be able to enjoy different vistas. So I wrote to myself (□ ) “Ok, if you are craving new impulses, wider perspectives… why don’t you go for a walk in a new place, a different nature reserve than the ones surrounding your hometown? Just go somewhere else today. I longed to broaden my horizon again, to experience new things, see new things. I really craved freedom to get new input, new vistas, new perspectives. That my world felt confined, boring, uninspiring.Īnd I wrote about what these emotions were telling me. The anger, frustration, sadness, feeling that is was unfair and so on. Writing always brings light, more clarity, creates some emotional distance to how I am feeling. So I sat down Sunday morning to write about this in my journal. Because I heard people outside clearly breaking the curfew, I saw and heard about people visiting other people in groups (against the regulations/ strong advice of the Dutch government). ![]()
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