We have started about making connections while we are reading. One of the common things I hear from the students when we start making connections is: This book doesn't remind me of anything! I've never done what they are doing in the book. Instead of connecting to what the characters in the books are doing I am asking the students to connect to how we think the characters are feeling. Today we finished reading the book Jamaica Tag Along and made our first individual connections.
A good connection should have two parts.
A part from the book:
In the story (the main character) was feeling ______________ when . . .
and then the part that the book reminds you of:
That reminds me of when I was feeling _____________ when . . .
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