![]() ![]() I decided that I had introduced it rather quickly, eager to launch the first workshop, assuming my students would pick it up as we practiced. Her chapter invited me to reflect on how I had introduced the concept of reading like writers to my students in the past. Does anyone want to make a prediction? What do you think this story will be about?” I summoned the calm reading voice of my mother, an amazing first-grade teacher and storybook reader, and we began.Ī few days earlier, I had reread the chapter “Organized Inquiry: Teaching Students to Read Like Writers” in Katie Wood Ray’s Wondrous Words. “ When I Was Young In the Mountains by Cynthia Rylant. They gathered around me on the carpet in front of the white board, fidgety at first. “Like in elementary school when the teacher read aloud?” someone asked. ![]() When I told them we were having storytime, my ninth graders appeared confused at first, exchanging dubious glances around the room. ![]() They love sitting cross-legged on a patch of carpet as the teacher reads a story from a chair, fanning open the pages of the book. ![]()
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