Reading: Growing Ideas About Characters

Readers know that they should be developing ideas about their characters as they read. They can look at what their characters do and say, what choices they make, and the objects they hold near and dear to them and use those as a window into who they are as people.

Readers also know that it is so important to make inferences about characters. They know that there are levels of inference and they try to increase the number of stars on their post-it by making their ideas more sophisticated.

 Here are some ways we revised our post-its to make our ideas even stronger:

Don't forget that as you are reading, you need to grow ideas about your characters. See how many stars you earn on each one of your post-its!