Readers’ Workshop
Our
work empathizing with characters is taking a slight shift this week. Previously, our focus was “becoming” the
character, creating mental movies and connecting emotionally to characters. While this is, and will always be important,
we are now working to grow ideas and theories.
Our work begins by recognizing that a character’s actions are a window
into the sort of person he or she is.
With our work in Second Step, we have developed our ‘social
intelligence’ that basically means the ability to read people well, to glean
what they are thinking and feeling. We
are applying these skills to the characters in our books. Later this week, we will work to identify
portions of the text where a character behaves strangely, and instead of
thinking, “That’s weird,” we will work to consider possible reasons for this
out of character behavior. What could be
the motivation behind this change? Has
something changed or were our previous ideas about a character simply too
simplistic.
Characters
– like people – are not just one way!
Writers’ Workshop
We will continue working on strong
closings that explain what happens to the main characters and resolve the
problem. Beginning
Wednesday, we will start the editing process, going through each of the letters
in our editing acronym: C.U.P.S. (Capitalization, Understanding/Does it make
sense?, Punctuation, and Spelling). Ask your child how their draft is coming along? Where are
they in the writing process? Have you visited the blog with them lately to take
advantage of the writing samples featured online?
Skills
Block
Students
will be tested on spelling List 10 this week.
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