Reading Aloud to our Class

Your Name: Tyrah Urie Date: 9/7/17 Publication Date: 2016

Book Title: Maybe something beautiful Authors: F. Isabel Campoy &Theresa Howell

Deeper meanings in text: community, collaboration, coming together to create change

Introduce the text:
 Read the title and author
 Always ask if anyone has read the book and, if they have, to please not tell others what
happens.
State the purpose of your read aloud:
 I chose this book to engage students in appreciating their communities and envisioning ways
to grow their neighborhoods toward positive change.
Stopping Place: Choose places that Encouraging Talk at Stopping Places:
support students’ in thinking about
the characters, problem, vocabulary, Consider asking open-ended questions that offer students an
themes, or critical events. There is opportunity to think strategically, share their thinking, and
no wrong when deciding the exact do the work for themselves.
place to stop, as long as you draw
talk that builds purposeful
comprehension.
Page # and phrase to cue you to Reason for Questions (open-ended) for Turn-
stop: Stopping: To gather and-Talk:
students’ thinking Jot down words to describe Mira in
“Her city was less gray—but not about the protagonist your response journal.
much” and to identify
character traits based What are you thinking about this
on evidence in the character?
story.
What do Mira’s actions so far in the
story tell us about her?
Page # and phrase to cue you to Reason for Questions (open-ended) for Turn-
stop: Stopping: To make and-Talk:
“The whole neighborhood became a predictions about What are you thinking now?
giant block party. Until…the police what will happen
man walked up.” next in the story and What might the police officer say to
to infer a character’s Maya? Why do you think that?
motivations and
actions.

End of Book: Questions to Guide Reflection on the Heart of the Story:

Why would the authors write a story that gets us thinking
and talking about collaboration in our communities?

Make a list of how you can bring joy to your neighborhood.