Fifth grade is the year students, as readers, go deeply into text, interpreting and analyzing stories. In our narrative reading unit, students think about their thinking while reading. As readers, they become more awake to their own lives and those of others through rich, engaging and diverse stories. When books resonate with students' own lives and experiences, their worlds expand.
Struggling to find books to match, challenge and develop students as readers, my hope is to continue growing their love of reading through great books. These are a few of the responses my students shared when I asked, "What book character, scene, idea, or passage made you see your world differently? Something you decided, I want to carry this with me."
The scene, 鈥淟ighting new that you didn鈥檛 hold a secret; the secret held you. Until you told it to let you go.鈥 in Fleabrain Loves Franny
In Eldest, the second book of Eragon, it says, 鈥淏ut until then we shall not let unhappy thoughts disturb us.鈥
Fortes fortuna adiuvat- Explorer Academy 4 The star dunes 鈥淔ortune favors the brave.鈥
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell - 鈥 It's Beautiful isn鈥檛 it? How it all hurts, but we never give up."
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Fifth grade is the year students, as readers, go deeply into text, interpreting and analyzing stories. In our narrative reading unit, students think about their thinking while reading. As readers, they become more awake to their own lives and those of others through rich, engaging and diverse stories. When books resonate with students' own lives and experiences, their worlds expand.
Struggling to find books to match, challenge and develop students as readers, my hope is to continue growing their love of reading through great books. These are a few of the responses my students shared when I asked, "What book character, scene, idea, or passage made you see your world differently? Something you decided, I want to carry this with me."
The scene, 鈥淟ighting new that you didn鈥檛 hold a secret; the secret held you. Until you told it to let you go.鈥 in Fleabrain Loves Franny
In Eldest, the second book of Eragon, it says, 鈥淏ut until then we shall not let unhappy thoughts disturb us.鈥
Fortes fortuna adiuvat- Explorer Academy 4 The star dunes 鈥淔ortune favors the brave.鈥
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell - 鈥 It's Beautiful isn鈥檛 it? How it all hurts, but we never give up."
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