"It's Monday...What Are You Reading?"

Today we finished our Book Club selection, Junie B., First Grader, Cheater Pants by Barbara Park.  Junie B. is a favorite character of mine!  Mrs. Park's books offer a host of character trait lessons and reading with the purpose of noticing how a character's actions contribute to the sequence of events in a story.  I chose this selection to guide students on their use of our first three fiction sign-posts: Contrast & Contradictions, Tough Questions, and Aha Moment!  The class did an excellent job reading this humorous selection and noticing the main character, Junie B., grow and change throughout the text.  We will continue to study characters in many books in Reader's Workshop as we focus on CCSS RL 3.3: Describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events.