Sticky+Note+Strategy

Sticky notes are a more courteous way to track our thinking as we read. When we invite students to share their questions, confusions, connections, disagreements or delights in what they read, we are teaching them to be active, reflective readers. Tracking their thoughts during reading requires students to be metacognitive, to think about their thinking. It shows them to be active, not passive readers. And it helps them develop awareness about what they do when they read successfully, so they have a repertoire of tools to draw on when they encounter stumbling blocks.

= **Sticky Notes Strategy for Reading Comprehension** =

//Put sticky notes on the text as you are reading.//

__Use them for__**:**


 * Sum-ups** – Write down what just happened. For example, “George just stole cookies from the cookie jar.”


 * Predictions** – Guess what will happen next in the story. For example, “George may get grounded if his parents find out.”


 * Questions** – Write down what you are wondering. For example, “What does ‘justice’ mean?” Or, “I don’t understand this part.”


 * Connections** – //Text-to-self// – Compare a character or an event to yourself. For example, “I stole a cookie once.”

//Text-to-text// – Compare a character or an event to another book. For example, “This reminds me of how Stanley got in trouble for stealing in __Holes__.”

//Text-to-world// – Compare a character or an event to what might be going on in the world. For example, “People steal other people’s things in the real world, too.”

//Text-to-media// – Compare a character or an event to movies, TV, computer games, video games etc. For example, George reminds me of the character from “Dennis the Menace.”


 * Vocabulary development-** Have students sticky note words that are challenging for them to understand while they read. Teach them to identify these words and then teach them strategies they can use to help figure out the meaning of these words when they read. (Use the pictures/diagrams, use context clues, use word parts you know and understand, read ahead, reread)