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being able to comprehend, discuss, and expand their contextual knowledge.

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to read for meaning

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They are able to understand text and relate it to their lives.  

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They are able to understand text and relate it to their lives.  

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Enjoy reading and be able to do it independently.

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Eventually they should understand the how and why, and how it relates to their own lives.

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Literature poses new situations and perspectives that help students think about and determine their own point of view.

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making connections

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it gives them a chance to connect to real life

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it gives them a chance to connect to real life

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...to help them make connections and understand emotions in their own lives by comparing it to the literature and characters.

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to understand life lessons that are hard to learn

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Create stamina.

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Making it visible for kids - giving students time to reflect on their thinking/reading - DISCUSSIONS

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Teachers need to explicitly tell readers what their goal is and refresh the goal and restate the goal multiple times.  

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Teachers need to explicitly tell readers what their goal is and refresh the goal and restate the goal multiple times.  

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The important thing about teaching literature is connecting and experiencing new things through literature

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To make connections to "real-life" and to help understand how to handle situations

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To make connections to "real-life" and to help understand how to handle situations

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That students enjoy reading and want to continue reading outside of class.

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it helps them to learn to connect things to their lives.

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to make connections with the character, setting, and or events with real life situations 

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to make connections with the character, setting, and or events with real life situations 

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To understand the how and why and to be able to transfer knowledge into their own lives.

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Allows for the ability to communicate thoughts and feelings about an experience or event

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Build your characters and not the plot. Once you have strong characters, the rest of it falls into place. Sometimes, "you have to kill your little darlings."

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...being able to communicate ideas to others in writing and verbally.

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That students enjoy writing and would like to continue writing in the future and that they can use their imagination to guide them.

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it builds better understanding of the craft of writing to share experiences through stories and characters.

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it builds better understanding of the craft of writing to share experiences through stories and characters.

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is to be descriptive, to create mind movies

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communicating a story in sequential order

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to provide a teacher model to good quality drawing and writing

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to provide a teacher model to good quality drawing and writing

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To communicate ideas and our lives to others

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To communicate ideas and our lives to others

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using a mentor text as a resource to become a more meaningful, and powerful writer, when writing independently in the future.

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student choice and learning how to make good decisions while writing.