Habits+of+Mind

=1. **Reflect and Connect**= **Keep track** of what you know and what you don't know. **Make connections** between what's new to you and what you knew before. Develop your skills as a **Summarizer and a** **Connector**.


 * In your own words, summarize what you understand about the
 * setting, characters, plot and theme.
 * author's bias, main argument and supporting evidence.


 * Speculate about the parts you don't understand or the things that are confusing you.


 * Connect what you're reading to what you know, and explain the similarities and differences:
 * //Text-to-Self//: Tell a story from your own life that this reading reminds you of.
 * //Text-to-World//: Tell a story about something that is happening in the world that relates to what you're reading.
 * //Text-to-Text//: Describe the similarities and differences between what you've been reading and another book or article.
 * //Text-to-Media//: Describe a song, T.V. show, movie, web site or other media that this reading reminds you of.

===**2. Wonder** === **Ask questions** before, during, and after reading that lead you deeper into the text. **Point to what's important** by quoting the passages that matter most, and explaining why these are worth remembering. Build on your ability to be an engaging **Discussion Director** and **Illuminator**.


 * Write your questions down as soon as you have them, and select from them later.


 * Identify the important aspects of your assigned text, and develop questions other students might want to discuss.
 * Focus on the major themes or “big ideas” in the text and your reaction to those ideas. What interests you will most likely interest other students too.
 * Talk to your reader/listener, ask them questions, and request a response.
 * Be picky. Choose passages that you think are memorable, interesting, puzzling, funny, or important.
 * Make a "quotation sandwich":
 * Say why you chose each quote.
 * <span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; list-style-position: inside; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 1.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Include the exact quotation, cite it with proper references, and link to it, if possible.
 * <span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; list-style-position: inside; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 1.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Expand on what each quotation makes you think.

**3. Investigate** <span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">**Draw conclusions** about the text you are reading by making inferences or intelligent guesses based on clues from the text combined with your own experiences or prior knowledge. Work on skills you need to be a better **Problem Solver**.
 * <span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; list-style-position: inside; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 1.5em 1.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Write something like this: "The author doesn’t say __, but I know because__."
 * <span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; list-style-position: inside; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 1.5em 1.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This is what people mean when they say that you have to "read between the lines." To show your understanding of a text:
 * <span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; list-style-position: inside; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 1.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Explain what you think is true.
 * <span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; list-style-position: inside; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 1.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Quote specific parts from the text that support your hypothesis.
 * <span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; list-style-position: inside; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 1.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Say why this makes sense based on your past experiences.

===<span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.5em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">**4. Construct** === <span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">**Create and use images and other media** (both in your mind and actually) to deepen and stretch your understanding of a text. Develop your skills as an **Illustrator.**
 * Draw, record audio, or make video, make graphs, charts, and write about what you read.
 * Draw a scene as a cartoon-like sequence, or record a dramatic reading of an important scene so readers can better understand the action.
 * <span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; list-style-position: inside; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 1.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Draw maps or charts to show how one person, place, or event relates to the others.
 * <span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; list-style-position: inside; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 1.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Label your drawings so we know who the characters are.
 * <span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; list-style-position: inside; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 1.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Draw objects that symbolic represent the ideas, the characters, the tone of a a text.
 * <span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; list-style-position: inside; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 1.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Draw graphic organizers like venn diagrams, bubble clusters, T-charts to show key ideas, words, meanings and how they relate to one another.
 * Use writing to explain how your drawing, video, or audio relates to the text you're reading.

===<span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.5em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">**5. Express** === <span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">**Combine your thoughts** about texts with your knowledge of other texts or media. Develop your skills as a **Researcher**.


 * <span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; list-style-position: inside; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 1.5em 1.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"Fold in" your analysis of the text you are reading into an ongoing research or inquiry project, the way a chef might add a new ingredient to an already-beaten mixture.
 * <span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; list-style-position: inside; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 1.5em 1.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Integrate quotations from the text you are reading--and your analysis of those quotations--by revising something that you have already begun to compose.
 * <span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; list-style-position: inside; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 1.5em 1.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Create a mashup that brings together the text you are reading with other, multiple sources around a common theme.

<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This page modified only slightly from Youth Voices wiki, who compiled the following studies into this document:
 * //<span style="color: #0066b3; font-family: inherit; font-size: 10px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mosaic of Thought, Second Edition: The Power of Comprehension Strategy Instruction //, by Oliver Keene and Susan Zimmermann (<span style="color: #0066b3; font-family: inherit; font-size: 10px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Seven Strategies of an Effective Reader )
 * <span style="color: #0066b3; font-family: inherit; font-size: 10px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The 6+1 Trait Writing framework, Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory (<span style="color: #0066b3; font-family: inherit; font-size: 10px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Trait Definitions )
 * <span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; list-style-position: inside; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 1.5em 1.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Stripling, B. and Pitts, J. //Brainstorms and Blueprints: Teaching Library Research as a Thinking Process//. Littleton, CO: Libraries Unlimited. ( <span style="color: #0066b3; font-family: inherit; font-size: 10px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Pitts/Stripling Model of Inquiry] (PDF), especially pp. 7-9)
 * //<span style="color: #0066b3; font-family: inherit; font-size: 10px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Literature circles: voice and choice in book clubs and reading groups //<span class="addmd" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 10px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">, by Harvey Daniels ( <span style="color: #0066b3; font-family: inherit; font-size: 10px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Seven Literature Circle Jobs ; <span style="color: #0066b3; font-family: inherit; font-size: 10px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Joy and Jeopardy of Role Sheets )
 * <span style="color: #0066b3; font-family: inherit; font-size: 10px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> " [|NetSavvy Skills Framework] " (PDF), p. 2., by Ian Jukes