details deepen our understanding of Patricia Polacco. (Think-Pair-Share) Great, let’s add a few of those details we’ve talked about on the chart. (add a few you heard, or from the example above.) Our goal today is to practice how readers, “... get to know their author better by comparing and contrasting the setting in different books by the same author.” Let me ask you the same question I asked myself? Now that we’ve compared these setting how does this deepen our understanding of the author? What do these settings tell about the author? Here is a sentence frame that you can use to help you get started. Patricia Polacco must be ____ because her settings are ______. I think that the setting _________ deepen our understanding of Patricia Polacco, because_____. (Think-Pair-Share) Link: I feel like we are now deepening our understanding of Patricia Polacco as a writer. Today as you go off to study your author think about the setting, and how they tell us about the author. You may not have already read two books by your author, but if you have you have an advantage because, “Readers get to know their author better by comparing and contrasting the setting in different books by the same author.”
details deepen our understanding of Patricia Polacco. (Think-Pair-Share) Great, let’s add a few of those details we’ve talked about on the chart. (add a few you heard, or from the example above.) Our goal today is to practice how readers, “... get to know their author better by comparing and contrasting the setting in different books by the same author.” Let me ask you the same question I asked myself? Now that we’ve compared these setting how does this deepen our understanding of the author? What do these settings tell about the author? Here is a sentence frame that you can use to help you get started. Patricia Polacco must be ____ because her settings are ______. I think that the setting _________ deepen our understanding of Patricia Polacco, because_____. (Think-Pair-Share) Link: I feel like we are now deepening our understanding of Patricia Polacco as a writer. Today as you go off to study your author think about the setting, and how they tell us about the author. You may not have already read two books by your author, but if you have you have an advantage because, “Readers get to know their author better by comparing and contrasting the setting in different books by the same author.”
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