Today we introduced our fifth
reading strategy: Determining Importance.
To help the girls understand the value of this strategy, we all sat in a
large circle outside the classrooms. I told the girls I would be taking a walk
this afternoon and needed their help in deciding what I should take with
me. They enthusiastically agreed! I
dumped the contents of my purse on the floor and we went through each item. The
girls decided the items I should take with me: a license, chapstick, a credit card,
gloves, a hair tie, etc. They ruled out unnecessary items: a comb, lipstick, my
wallet, a tape measure. I asked the girls to tell me how this activity is like
reading. The girls quickly made a connection to determining important parts of
a story.
