Learning about Rising Stars of Inferences Post-Its by Lauren

When you're reading your just right book, you should put post-its in your book to have deeper thinking about your reading. Post-its are meant for you to stop and jot down what you are thinking. When you have longer thoughts, you write thoughts down in your reader's notebook. For example, you can do an EEG or you can stop and sketch or write long off of a idea. But when you do post-its those are for you to stop and jot your ideas, you should have evidence from the text or evidence from the book. 

If your goal is to write a 1 star post, it states an idea about the characters or it says an idea. In the book Sheila Rae's Peppermint Stick, for example, I could write “Sheila is rude” or “Sheila loves her peppermint stick”. If you’re ever stuck on how to start, you can use "I think…" or "________ is feeling…" or "______ is the kind of person who...."

If your goal is to write a 2 star post-it in your book, you should support the idea with evidence of words and actions like “Sheila got a chair and then she got 4 huge big books and then climbed up on it and stood on her tippy toes." To get started you can use "I think this because...and a part of the text that shows this is..."" and also… and…."

If your goal  is a 3 star post-it you should support ideas with more than one piece of evidence of words and actions. For example if my goal was to write a 3 star post-it, I would write “Sheila is rude because she keeps teasing her little sister. For example, she said "I will give you some if you can guess how many stripes it has," and she would not give her the peppermint stick." 

If my goal is to  write a 4 star post-it, I would write ideas about characters relationships using specific evidence in the text. For example I could write “Sheila Rae LOVES her peppermint stick. I know this because in the text it says Sheila Rae had a peppermint stick it was long shiny and had stripes she loved it and she did not want give some to her sister. I know this because she made obstacles for her sister to have some. Sheila Rae loves her peppermint stick because in the text it says, "Sheila Rae held the peppermint stick close to her body."" To get started you can use: "__________ and _________ are similar/different because...also..." or "__________ is ibn the story because.../____________ is in the story to show..."

 Rising Stars of Inference Poster

 An example of writing about our reading

Reader's notebook where you can sort your post-its and do other writing about your reading

(The photos above were taken and captioned by Lauren for her blog post.)