Catching Readers

This year our district has given us a release day in April - I think it's the day after Easter. The catch is we have to get 7 in-service hours before then. I sorta missed the boat by not taking advantage of any of the few in-services the district offered this summer. {And boo, hiss - the district doesn't allow me to use the 6 college hours I'll have by then.}

Anyway, I've done a slap-dash bunch of in-services and I'm still an hour and a half short. Some of the other teachers in my school are also short. So I volunteered to do a book study, very loosely based on "Catching Readers Before They Fall." 




I was just re-reading chapter 5, "A Comprehensive Literacy Framework." I find myself reading professional books with two pulls - one is excited to see what else I can do; the other is reluctance to see where I am missing the boat. 

One quote I noticed this morning was this:

“If we want to support children as they build an effective reading process system, then we must show them what it looks like when a proficient reader is using his or her system.”

I would like to figure out how to do a better job of showing my students the thinking that is going on in my mind as I'm reading, so that they can {hopefully} transfer this information to their own reading. The authors advocate sticky notes - and I think that might be a good strategy for me to get started. 

Any hints from you?