Teachable Texts

144. Just Us Women by Jeanette Caines

February 22, 2010 at 6:50 pm Leave a comment

Retell: A niece describes her annual road trip with her favorite aunt.

Topics: road trips, family, freedom, women, bonding

Units of Study: Talking and Writing About Texts

Tribes: mutual respect

Habits of Mind: applying past knowledge to new situations, thinking flexibly

Reading Skills: inference, interpretation

My Thoughts: I’m beginning a new unit this week–a unit devoted to strengthening my students inference and interpretation skills.  I’m looking for short and engaging texts to read aloud.  This is a great text for modeling how readers can infer a lot of information about a character/relationship from a simple line of text.

Entry filed under: African-American Authors, Female Authors, Picture Books. Tags: applying past knowledge, bonding, family, freedom, inference, interpretation, mutual respect, road trips, talking and writing about texts, thinking flexibly, women.