1 Aaron’s Hair

Readers Workshop Daily Plan

1. Mini-Lesson Focus: Reading Like A Writer

Reading Standards: RL1 refers to using the text to explicitly get information and using text to make inferences. RL6 refers to point of view of reader as well as author. RL9 has students compare and contrast different texts.

2. Aaron’s Hair: “When we read from the perspective of a writer, we focus less on what the writer is trying to say and more on how the writer is saying it. Specifically, we look at the techniques the writer is using to get his or her message across and how those techniques affect us as we experience the text. These certainly aren’t the only ways to read. But they represent an interesting and valuable way of thinking about a text. The point of all this is to help us enjoy reading more by making it a more active and interactive process. When we read actively, we don’t just wait for the meaning to come to us, we go after it — aggressively. We look deeply into the text hunting in certain specific ways searching for clues as to what the writer is trying to say. When we read interactively, we ask questions about the text and our reactions to it, and we use the answers to develop a sense of how the text works. It’s as if we start a conversation between the writer, the writing, and our self. During Language Arts you will be writing your own “hair” piece. As I read aloud Aaron’s Hair by Robert Munsch, I want you to think as a writer. Think of some of the techniques the author uses and how you might use them when you write.” Read Aaron’s Hair by Robert Munsch to students. Periodically stop and ask students to think about some of the techniques the author used to make his point. Have students turn to their partner and discuss some of the techniques and how they might use them in their own writing. You may want to start an anchor chart of techniques authors use (see below). This chart can be added to as students discover different techniques while they are reading their own text. You may want to include this chart in their Reading Writing notebooks.

3. Student Reading/Teacher Conferring

4. Reading Share: Student Teacher

Have students share some of the writing techniques they have discovered in their own reading.

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Reading Like a Writer

Title of book / Technique / Specific Example

Troup County Schools 2013

Reading Writing Connection