Saturday, September 22, 2012

9/24 Text-to-Self

We've been making connections with our reading and our lives!

Good readers think while they read.  They notice when characters in the text experience things that they have too.  They notice when a character is feeling a way they have felt before.  When a character is visiting a place that the reader has been before, it's easy for that reader to get a good idea of what's going on in the story.  

Please practice this skill as you read for 20 minutes this evening. 


Then, in the comment section write and tell me the title and the author of the book you read. 
Let me and your friends know what connection you made while you were reading.

You can use these sentence stems to help you...

That reminds me of…That made me think of the time…I can relate….

29 comments:

  1. Molly B
    I am still reading Magic Puppy Star of the Show by Sue Bentely.
    I can relate to the character Tessa being nervous about messing up her lines in the play because I felt nervous when I was in the birds play last year.

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  2. Andie A.
    I am reading The Tail Of Despereaux by Kate Dicamillo. I can relate to this book because of when I was born and tiny, like Despereaux.

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  3. Today I read The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling.
    The little boy played in the jungle with monkeys this remind me of the time i played soccer in the jungle.

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  4. A to z mysteries the absent Author
    Ron roy
    I can relate because I have been to a library like Dink.
    Charlie O.

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  5. I read Zombie Chasers by Jhon Kleopferand my mental image is when a army zombie got on the back of the truck.

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  6. The Wimpy Kid Movie Diary
    by Jeff Kinney

    The people got excited about making the movie of the book and I know how that feels because I am excited about being in origress of making my own movie called Vampires vs. My Little Ponies.

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  7. Henry and Mudge and the Best Day of All by Cynthia Rylant.

    I can relate because I like ice cream as much as Mudge.

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  8. Junie B. Jones Has a Monster Under Her Bed by Barbara Park

    When Junie takes school pictures it reminded me of when I took my school picture.

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  9. I read Sophie the Zillionaire. She was walking with her best friend. My connection was that I have walked with my best friend many times.

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  10. I read Pokemon Sinnoh hall of fame. My mental is when the team Rockets steal the Pokemon.

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  11. Mouse Soup by Arnold Lobel

    I imagined I was being captured by somebody like the mouse.

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  12. Geronimo Stilto Mighty Mount Kilimsnjsro
    I am reading this because we are going to Kenya next summer. I am not far enough into it to relate to Geronimo.

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  13. Wolves By:G.Steven

    Wolves feel in love when their matting. Wolves feel hungry when their favorite meal is in front of them.

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  14. When the wolf in the story was hungry, it reminded me of what I wanted for dinner.

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  15. I read a book called Just Grace by charise Mericle Harper.But I did not very much get any connections.

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  16. I read some chapters of captain underpants and the attack of the talking toilets. by Dav Pilkey. some of the characters were mad and some were happy and today i was mad and happy.

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  17. The book that I read was: Dragonbreath by Ursula Vernon. i can relate with Danny Dragonbreath because he woke up scared from a dream and one time I woke up scared from a dream to.

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  18. I read Magic School Bus:Explores the senses by Jonna Cole.This reminds me of the time Mrs.Skrivanek made us study the senses.We used words to describe how something looked,felt,tasted,smell & sounds like.It's a blessing to have all the senses.

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  19. Jasmine L.

    I read Dork Diaries 2 by R. Russel

    My connection is that she is the smallest girl in school and I felt like I was the smallest girl in school when I was in Pre-K.

    She is the smallest girl in school too.

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  20. I am reading 'Harry Potter and The Goblin of Fire'. The Triwizard Tournament is about to begin. You have to be chosen from the best. This was like swimming in the Invitational swim meet. I swam the butterfly.

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  21. I am still reading The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain my text to self. They found eight dollars. I know how it feels to find money because I once found 3 dollars.

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  22. Dana L. September 24,2012 8:20 PM
    I read The Twits by Roald Dahl. I can relate to the character Mr.Twit being mean when he tied Mrs.Twit's wrists on to ballons and said"Oh look at those pretty ballons up in the sky". Once I saw ballons in the sky and I said the same thing as Mr Twit said.

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  23. I read Fancy Nancy and the Fancy Words by Jenny O'connell. This book reminded me of the time I tried to use fancy words because my tutor gave me a lot of new fancy words to learn.

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  24. Nhu.L

    I am still reading Hamster Magic By:Lynne Jonell
    My connection to the book was once I had a dram that I had a talking hamster a pet.

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  25. Ana K.

    I started reading a book called Judy Moody And The Not Bummer Summer by Megan McDonald. A text-to-self connection that I made is that Judy Moody and I are both very grumpy sometimes.

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  26. I read "Free Throw" By:Jake Maddox.Derek was getting a lot of pressure when he was about to shoot a free throw, I've gotten a lot of pressure when I was about to shoot a free throw.

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  27. We read Arthur Babysits by Marc Brown. my connection was that I tried to calm a baby down before when they were crying.

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  28. Ariana V 9/24/12

    Harry Poter Dethly Hollow

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  29. Flint Saves the Day by Michael Teitelbaum

    I imagine myself eating 100 hamburgers.

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