Tough Questions

Today Ms. Cavallaro introduced our first signpost that we are going to talk about as we read the book Charlotte's Web. 

The book that we took these ideas of signposts from is called Notice and Note.

The authors of the book found six signposts that you can almost find in every book. When reader's find these signposts they can start to have a deeper understanding of the book they read. We have decided to just introduce two of the six signposts as we read Charlotte's Web.

The signpost that we introduced today is called Tough Questions. You can see the poster above that explains the signpost. To introduce the idea Ms. Cavallaro showed a clip from the movie The Lion King. In the clip Simba asks himself the tough questions that we are looking for in our book. 

Ms. Cavallaro then taught the class the question they will ask themselves when they notice the question. Now students can search for moments in Charlotte's Web where the characters ask themselves tough questions. We will continue to talk about tough questions and showing the class examples of characters in books and movies asking themselves Tough Questions. If you are a reader yourself or love movies, you might want to look for these signposts yourself. They do make reading more enjoyable. When you find one of these Tough Questions moment you can ask yourself the same question our students will be asking when they find an example:

What does this question make me wonder about?

Hope you are having a great week.