gr group Iowa

This is obvious but sometimes students don't ask questions about what they're reading because they understand what's going on in the book.  Iowa is reading Junie B Jones: Something Smells Fishy with me right now, and not writing down very many questions.  When I pressed Kamari about why he didn't write any questions after reading a sort of cliffhanger at the end of a chapter, he explained that he knew why Junie B. had called her grandma a genius- because Junie B. really was going to do what her grandma had joked about.  I think this group also may only be thinking about questions on a continuum between remembering and understanding, they may not have enough experience or practice asking higher level questions.  Kashira is writing a lot of inferences in her notebook and one question: "why would she go to look for a raccoon in the morning?"

Group share:
Kashira: I think Junie B. is picky.  Aniyah agrees.
Anyah: What do Junie B. get from her grandma?
Kamari: I think it's obvious from the cover that it's a fish from the cover, and her grandma said it wouldn't bite and stuff.
Kamari: Did Junie B. catch a pet for pet day? (everyone shrugs)
Kashira:I can predict to that.  I predict that she is going to bring a fish on a leash and her teacher is going to tell her that she couldn't bring it unless she had it in a cage.
We talk about changing questions to make them clearer.
Trae: Do she like raccoons?
Anyah: I don't think she likes racoons because maybe she hasn't seen one.
Kashira: I think she do because when her mom was eating cereal she says that she's going to try to catch a raccoon.