Stop and Jot

Today during reading workshop we learned the strategy of stop and jot. This helps students think while reading and make connections to what they are reading. We use post it notes to draw simple smile faces ( happy parts of story), frown faces (sad parts) questions marks ( I wonder why....) and exclamation points ( exiting part of story) to show our thinking during reading.  Students did a wonderful job with this and shared their stop and jots with a friend after they were finished reading.