Post-It-ing+Guidelines

• Mark good sentences, phrases, and words. Transfer those post-its to your reader’s notebook so you can save them for later use. • Mark big, interesting words: examine their meanings and the way they are used in the text. Your word study notebook is a great place to work with the words that you find. • Mark places that make you say, “What? Wait a second; I don’t get it…” Ask questions so that the text makes sense to you. Record those questions in your reader’s notebook so that you can explain the text to yourself later. • Mark spots that you might want to talk through in a reading meeting. Transfer those ideas to your reader’s notebook to prepare for the meeting. Remember to be organized! • Mark confusing sentences and ideas; that way, you can revisit them later to see if your understanding has grown. • Mark ideas that would be interesting to share. Write them in your reader’s notebook. • Mark beautiful or mysterious illustrations. Writers choose their illustrations carefully; why did your author choose to include those illustrations in his or her book? Brainstorm your thoughts in your reader’s notebook. • Mark ideas that you connect to, or that you can connect to other books, people, places, etc. Think about why those connections are important.
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