Super Saturday
Writing Conference
SECRET SITE
WRITE ABOUT THE TEXT
SESSION 4 | Grades 3-12 / ELL Levels 3-5
[HANDOUT]
Note & annotate reader thoughts
Document the whispers of the Thinking Voice
Readers actively engage with texts.
Jot thinking adjacent to the author’s ideas
When lifting information out of the text, students take notes on what the text says and means.
After reading chapters 3-4 of Abby Takes a Stand, Kristi Burbank’s fourth graders continued to practice applying their Reading and Thinking Voices. Before the all-class read aloud and activity, Kristi typed the SAYS side in preparation for students to add their thoughts to the MEANS side. (Students then finished reading Chapter 4 and recorded their individual Reading and Thinking Voices.)
Gain information from many different sources
The Blind Men & the Elephant
Value Multiple Sources lesson clip Smartboard
Annotate across multiple texts
View a grade four mini-lesson executed on coding across texts.
PDF | Smartboard