Year 3 - Investigating Book Characters

This week we continued with the reading books the we are reading class. We found out by looking a little closer at our characters, we understand the story we are reading better. We understand better why the characters do certain things, or how they feel.

We asked ourselves question's like; What was the character's problem? Did they manage to solve their problem? If so, how? 

Explaining the problem to our audience in a way that everyone could understand the message was very important. We tried our best to be respectful listeners and gave each other tips on how to make the message clearer or to improve the flow.

We also noticed that sometimes we read to fast and miss out on the great secrets that are hidden in the text and illustrations. We miss jokes or other important information in the text, that can help us really understand what we are reading about. Looking up words that we are not sure about is important too.

We also looked at new vocabulary words to improve the character descriptions in our letters that we are writing in the classroom. We combined using the evidence we found earlier to make very detailed descriptions of the book character we choose.

“There is massive evidence that self-selected reading, or reading what you want to read, is responsible for most of our literacy development. Readers have better reading ability, know more vocabulary, write better, spell better, and have better control of complex grammatical constructions. In fact, it is impossible to develop high levels of literacy without being a dedicated reader, and dedicated readers rarely have serious problems in reading and writing.”  ― Stephen D. Krashen