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Artful Artist (visualizing)  Name __________________________ Group __________________________ 

Book __________________________ Pages ____________to____________ 

Artful Artist:  Your job is to draw some kind of picture related to the reading.

It can be a sketch, cartoon, diagram, flow chart, or stick figure scene. You can draw a

picture of something that the reading reminded you of, or a picture that conveys anyidea or feeling you got from the reading. Any kind of drawing or graphic is O.K. – youcan even label things with words if it helps.

Draw on a separate sheet of paper.

Presentation plan: When it is your turn to present, you may show your

picture without comment to the others in the group. One at a time, they get tospeculate what your picture means to connect the drawing to their own ideas about thereading. After everyone has had their say, you get the last word: tell them what yourpicture means, where it came from, or what it represents to you.

Questioner Queen/King (going deeper)  Name __________________________ Group __________________________ 

Book __________________________ Pages ____________to____________ 

Questioner Queen/King:  Your job is to develop a list of questionsthat your group might want to discuss about this part of the book. What questions wentthrough your mind as while you were reading this? Usually the best discussion questionscome from your own thoughts, feelings, and concerns as you read. Your group willprobably be interested in “fat” questions – the big, rich, open-ended questions thatpeople can say a lot about, debate, and even disagree about. Write your questions onthe lines below.

1. __________________________________________________________________________________ 

2. __________________________________________________________________________________ 

3. __________________________________________________________________________________ 

4. __________________________________________________________________________________ 

5. __________________________________________________________________________________ 

Sample questions:1. Why did the author have this happen? 3. What was going through your mind as youwere reading?2. How is this part of the book connected to earlier parts? 4. Why did the character behave in thisway?

5. What do you think is the author’s theme?

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Wordsmith (appreciating brilliant words)  Name __________________________ Group __________________________ 

Book __________________________ Pages ____________to____________ 

Wordsmith:  Your job is to be on the lookout for a few especially important

words or phrases in today’s reading. You will find words that are puzzling or unfamiliar,

repeated a lot, used in an unusual way, or key to the meaning of the text. Mark themwith a sticky note while you are reading. Later, jot down their definition, from eithera dictionary or some other source.

Captain Connector (Schema)

  Name __________________________ Group __________________________ 

Book __________________________ Pages ____________to____________ 

Captain Connector:  Your job is to find connections between the book

your group is reading and the world outside. There are no right answers here – whateverthe reading connects YOU with is worth sharing!

Some connections I have found between this reading and other people, places,events, books, movies…

1._______________________________________________________________ 

 ________________________________________________________________ 

2._______________________________________________________________ 

 ________________________________________________________________ 

3._______________________________________________________________ 

 ________________________________________________________________ 

Word or phrase Page #

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Definition Reason for Choosing

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4._______________________________________________________________ 

 ________________________________________________________________ 

Genius Guesser (inferring)  Name __________________________ Group __________________________ 

Book __________________________ Pages ____________to____________ 

Genius Guesser:  Your job is to locate a few special sections of the text

that your group would like to hear read aloud. The idea is to help people remembersome interesting, powerful, funny, puzzling, or important sections of the text. Youdecide which passages or paragraphs are worth hearing. Do they give you clues to makenew discoveries? You can read the passages aloud yourself, ask someone else to readthem, or have people read them silently and then discuss.

Page #andParagraph

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Reason for Choosing it

(for example: important, confusing, surprising, funny,

informative, well-written, thought-provoking etc.)

Plan for Reading

(you read aloud, ask for a volunteer, or

have the group read it silently together)

Transformer (synthesizing)  Name __________________________ Group __________________________ 

Book __________________________ Pages ____________to____________ 

Transformer:  Your job is to prepare a brief summary of today’s reading. Did

any of your thinking change about the story, the characters, the author, oryourself? Explain. The other members of your group will be counting on you to givethem the key points of the reading and how your thinking has changed because of this

passage. You may write a paragraph or a list.

Summary:

 ________________________________________________________________________ 

 ________________________________________________________________________ 

 ________________________________________________________________________ 

 ________________________________________________________________________ 

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