That's a disgusting title isn't it? :) Well, hopefully your child has come home talking about how we SNOT all the time in fourth grade! SNOT is an acronym that stands for:
Small Notes On the Text As a reader, it's important to engage with a text. Gone are the days of just reading the words...now it's time to THINK about what those words mean and what the text is saying! When we read a text together in class, we SNOT all over it! We circle words and draw lines to synonyms. We take notes in the margins about what we think characters are feeling or how the text is making us feel. We write down our thoughts ALL OVER THE TEXT. We dissect it paragraph by paragraph so that by the time we are finished we have made connections all over it! We notice interesting words, we ask questions, and we figure out what the text is talking about. It's important to think about what we are reading. Why did the author write it? What did we learn? Does it remind us of anything else we have read? We train our 4th graders to do this by writing down their thoughts and connections as they read. At the beginning of the year, the students are always a little more shy about writing down their connections as they read. We do a lot of our "SNOTTING" together. However, as the year progresses, they grow braver and more confident as they practice to actively think every time they read until it literally becomes a reading habit! And what a wonderful habit to build! Good readers THINK about what they are reading! I always tell the kids that when you get finished, it should look like you "blew your nose all over your passage!" Gross- but the kids love it and it's a metaphor they never forget! :) Happy Reading! The SNOT Trainer :) Comments are closed.
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