Looking Closely to Outgrow Initial Ideas

hi readers.

So here's the thing.

When you write down an idea in your notebook or

on a post it note, you really shouldn't just forget

about it.

You should really spend some time going back and revisiting

those posts to deepen your thinking.

That's a big part of fourth grade, and I've noticed

one of the ways that I, deep in my thinking,

is by going back and re reading certain parts so

that I can grow my ideas even bigger.

I wanted to try that today with you with hot

day on Abbott Avenue.

So you've already heard the whole story.

But I want to go back and re read some

parts because my initial idea was that these two girls,

um, really want to be together.

But they're angry.

So I'm going to read this part on Page seven.

Let me show that to you.

This is where we are Ph.

Seven right here.

And it says, Hey, Miss Johnson calls out, You girls

still mad forever?

Kiss, she answers forever in a day.

Rene ads.

It's a best friend.

Break up day.

Um, so it's definitely, as I originally thought.

The girls are super mad at each other.

Um, they're acting the same way, though, to somebody who

is trying to help them.

And that happens a couple of other times to.

So I wanted to go back and just read.

Read that?

So this is Page eight.

I'll just show you that picture here so that, you

know, come on over here and help me with my

crossword puzzle.

Miss Johnson says, You know how long it takes me

when I don't have you all's help?

No, thanks.

Because she says, Not today, says Renee, not gonna never

going to be friends day again.

And then a similar thing happens over here.

Let's see.

This is Page 11 here.

It iss You girls wanna help me weed?

Mr Paul asks, kneeling in his flower bed.

Not today, Can she says.

No, thanks, says Renee.

So, um, are you thinking what I'm thinking?

These girls are so similar, I noticed that they are

sort of finishing each other sentences.

So maybe that's kind of the maybe not the reason

but part of why they're angry with each other, because

if you're really similar to someone, sometimes you kind of

butt heads with each other.

Have you ever noticed that.

I wonder if that's what's happening with these girls, and

if they're really similar, that would explain why they are

truly friends, too.

We just don't know why they're angry with each other

yet. So do you see how I went back and

reread a couple of places in my book?

And that allowed me to grow my idea?

It's not just the girls really want to be together,

but they're angry.

It's that they're actually so similar to each other that

maybe that has something to do with why they're angry.

So on our anchor chart, we want to add re

read, expecting your first ideas to change.

Okay, Radios.

So let's try this again with a different part of

the story.

Um, do you remember the part of the story where

they were playing jump rope?

I think it waas and then the ice truck appeared,

and so they all went to go get ice cream

to remember that part.

Okay, so what was your thinking there during that part?

Just really quickly for I don't know, 30 seconds or

so. Just turn and talk with your partner about what

were your thinking during that part of the story.

Go ahead and press pause and play when you're ready

to return.

Okay, so I'm guessing that many of you noticed that

this is the part of the story where Kishi and

Renee seem to become friends again.

So let's see if we can outgrow that idea.

And one way that we can grow our initial ideas

even bigger is by thinking about this chart that I'd

shown you before.

Let's see well, we know that their feelings have, oh,

change. Look at the bottom changes.

Let's re read that section again with the lens in

our mind of changes.

How are the characters changing?

So let me get to that part.

All right, Here it is.

Darling buys a blue ice pop Asia does to blue

ice pop for Nikki and one for kitschy, but none

for Renee.

They're all gone.

There's pictures here, Renee.

You can have half of mine kiss, she says, breaking

hers into Thanks.

Kiss, she, Renee says, smiling shyly.

You're welcome Kiss, she says, smiling back.

That's a great page right there.

Sure, the fat son has slipped completely behind the tall

stand of pine.

The girls sit on rennais porch, slurping blue ice pops

and watching Buster chased the cat back under the house,

watching Miss Johnson sleep with her head back, watching Mr

Paul trim his hedges.

Hail blue juice drips down their arms all the way

down to their elbows.

So what are you thinking now?

Now that we've reread that section with changes as our

lens are thinking books, I just went the wrong way.

Let me go back.

Okay, here's a chart.

I'll just zoom that in for you.

Here's another chart that might be helpful as you start

to try to push your thinking.

Um, you might say things like at first I thought

that this part was talking about the girls becoming friends

again. But now I think right in the beginning, it

seemed like blah, blah, blah.

But as I read on, it's clear that the first

time I looked at it, I thought, but when I

reread and dug deeper, I noticed, and in the beginning

the character was blank.

But as a story continued, the character changed, for example.

So go ahead and think about growing your idea a

bit bigger.

Hit the pause button, turn and talk with your partner

and then press play to begin again.

So I'm wondering if any of you were thinking about

sure. Both characters definitely change.

Kissy and Renee definitely changed, but did anyone mention that,

um, they actually shared with one another, and it was

in that act of sharing, that kind of brought the

walls of their pride down and brought them back together

as friends, Right.

Did anybody think of that?

Um, what about something like this?

Maybe a simple act of kindness can bring friends together,

right? Or maybe even people that are disagreeing together, something

like that.

So the first time I looked at it, I thought

that Renee and Kiss, she might never speak to each

other again.

But when I reread and dug a little deeper, I

noticed that they were so similar to each other, and

they truly did want to be friends, that it just

took a simple act, like sharing an ice pop to

bring them back together.

So that's a way that you could use one of

those prompts from the chart.

Okay, One other thing I want to share with you

and you have this in your notebook.

A ZX?

Well, is We've got sort of three stages here on

your thinking.

Stage one, you include just specific details from the text.

Right. Um then you move on to stage two when

we're kind of going up the ladder from just details

in the text to growing big ideas.

Stage two is where you think about Why did the

author right that parter include that part?

And you add your own thinking to it, Maybe even

some questions.

And then finally, stage three is where you really come

up with a brand new idea because you build it

from the specific details from the text, but also your

own thinking.

And what you notice that the author left you for

clues. So we're putting it all together here.

So today, as you go off and read, maybe spend

a couple of minutes before you agreed new section in

your book by going back and seeing if there's any

places that you can push your thinking and grow your

ideas a little bit bigger from the ones that you

already have posted.

So take about 20 to 25 minutes to read today

and then get back together with us for the share

of the end.

Off you go

Looking Closely to Outgrow Initial Ideas

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