It’s Reading
Workshop Day!
Get your reading
folder and make
updates!
You will need post-it
notes today.
Today’s Agenda
• Mini Lesson: Good readers ask thin and thick
questions as they read.
• Work Time: Independent Reading while
questioning
• Debrief: Type 1
Thinking Strategies
How we make sense of the world around us.
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Questioning
Visualizing
Connecting
Inferring
Predicting
Concluding
Mini Lesson:
Good readers
ask thin and
thick
questions as
they read.
Thin Questions
• Thin questions deal with specific
content or words you don’t know.
• Answers to thin questions are short
and close-ended.
Thick Question
• A question that requires more than a one
or two word response.
• It deals with the big picture and large
concepts
• Thick answers are involved, complex, and
open-ended.
Goldilocks and the Three
Bears
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Who were the main characters in the story?
Thin
Where did this story take place?
Thin
What does the word “porridge” mean?
Thin
How would you feel if someone broke into
your house?
• Thick
• What is the lesson of this story?
• Thick
Thinking Stems: Questioning
THIN
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Who…?
What…?
When…?
Where…?
How many…?
What does the
word ___ mean?
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THICK
Why…?
What if…?
What might…?
How would I feel…?
How does ___ feel about…?
I wonder why…?
How come…?
How could…?
What is happening…?
So what…?
As you read, write thin and thick
questions on post-it notes.
Place them on the page in your book
where you had the question.
Period 1
• Debrief: Type 1
–On your post-it notes, turn at least
one thin questions into thick
questions.
• Homework: Continue to read and
record questions on post-it notes.
Period 2-7
• Debrief: Type 1
–On your post-it notes, turn your
thin questions into thick questions.
• Homework: Continue to read record
questions on post-it notes. If you
own one, bring an iPod to class
tomorrow. 