Use this guide sheet to record your Literature Circle’s thinking Reading is Thinking Guide Sheet

Wondering Inferring ImportanceDetermining Synthesizing Author’s Craft

“How come…” “I wonder..”

“May be it means…” “I think…” “This is really important…”
“This whole story is “I get it…” “I like how the author…”
about…”
 Use this guide sheet to record your Literature Circle’s thinking Reading is Thinking Guide Sheet

CharactersUnderstanding Describing Setting Summarizing Plot Making Connections Visualizing

to be friends “The main character is…” “When I read this… I imagined a “The most important thing “When I“Iread
canthese
see (or
words…
hear, smell, “I get a picture in my
cause…” place that looks like…” that happened was…” it remindstaste
me or
of…”
feel)…” mind…”