Today we talked about reading with our minds on fire and capturing these "fire moments" in our reader's notebook. We practiced pushing our thinking about these "fire moments" by writing long and using prompts to push our thinking.
-Fire Moments - moments in our books when we feel emotions or empathize with characters, when we can't wait to see what will happen next, when we question the characters, when we can visualize the setting so clear that it is like we are there…
-Writing Long - when we take an idea and write as much as we can in our reader's notebooks about it (like our thoughts just spilling on our papers). We tried to get to half of a page today and some of us got even more than that!
-Prompts - sentence starters that help us keep going. Could it also be…. To add on to that…. Another reason might be… This is making me realize… On the other hand… - Grabbing these prompts when we feel "stuck" helps us keep pushing our thinking and helps us take our thinking in new directions.
I compared this kind of thinking to being inside a garbage bag. If we have a thought that is one dimensional, it is like standing up tall in a garbage bag. However, if we have a thought and then push our thinking about this thought, it is like our hands and feet and head jetting out and pushing on the garbage bag in all directions. I am picturing a "force flex" bag here! When we pick fire moments to write about, we can challenge ourselves to think deeply about the text we are reading.
Homework for tonight is to read and to write long about one fire moment. (definitions above!)
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