Think, Thank, Thunk...

M is LOLing at a text.

Oh the thinks you can think!

One of the skills we learn in the beginning of the year is Thinkmarking.

I always tell the kids that in Kinder, first and second grades they are learning to read. In third and beyond, they are reading to learn.

Digging deeper into a text and being able to pull out information for deeper understanding is a crucial skill.

We, as adults, do this automatically, but kids need to be taught this, so that's just what we do.

As you read, you respond back to the text, you "talk" to the text as if it were a real person.

If something is important, we star it, If something is confusing to us, we ? it, If something amuses us, we LOL it, and so on.

Get it? As we go on through the year, it becomes more and more of a habit until they are doing it even with abstract concepts they we are discussing.

Thinking about thinking is an awesome thing!

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