Asking Questions

Our current reading focus is on Asking Questions. Students are working to recognize how questions can help us when we read. Students are using these words to stop and ask themselves questions about what they are reading. When we stop to ask questions while we read we are learning more information, adding more details and understanding how to retell what happens in the story.

Please continue to use these words for your Word Wall Homework for the week. In addition, when reading with your child this week, stop and model a question you have about the story. This will help them to use this strategy on their own when reading independently.

In class we are working on this strategy before, during and after we read. We read The Stranger by Chris Van Allsburg. We had many predictions and questions about who the stranger was and what his purpose was for visiting the farm. Below are some Book Talk tweets we shared. We used the #blktlk hashtag during this activity.

We read this story and have many questions. Grade 3, can you tell me what makes the stranger father nature? #blktlk pic.twitter.com/bumlMmqFw8

— Mrs. Ciampa (@MrsCiampaClass) January 19, 2016

@MrsCiampaClass we don't think he is father nature because.... we think that he's a guy from heven .God sent hem down. BY: ds & BRM

— Mrs. Ciampa (@MrsCiampaClass) January 19, 2016

@MrsCiampaClass sc cc say: he is not father nature because he is God. He chage the wather. what is the Stranrger Name?

— Mrs. Ciampa (@MrsCiampaClass) January 19, 2016

@MrsCiampaClass TC and JM: We know that it is Father Nature because he changed the trees colour to green and made it warm

— Mrs. Ciampa (@MrsCiampaClass) January 19, 2016

@MrsCiampaClass IB says: He made nature. He also changed colour of the trees.

— Mrs. Ciampa (@MrsCiampaClass) January 19, 2016

@MrsCiampaClass EB says: That he blew on the leaf and it just made the tree turn red and yellow when he left.

— Mrs. Ciampa (@MrsCiampaClass) January 19, 2016