After completing Chapter 5 of Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida, readers make text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections to Victor Martinez's novel by crafting journal entries addressing comments and questions to characters in the book.

Concepts

reading comprehension strategies, responding to reading, text connections, text-to-self connections, text-to-text connections

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Have class members assume the role of one of the characters and respond to the questions posed by their classmates

Pros

• A rationale and directions for the activity are included

Cons

• No models are included