Notice and Note: Signposts and Anchor Questions from Notice & Note: Strategies for Close Reading by Kylene Beers and Robert E. Probst Contrasts &Contradictions AHA Moment Contrasts and Contradictions AHA Moment STOP and NOTICE and NOTE STOP and NOTICE and NOTE When you’re reading and a character does something that is the opposite (contrast or contradiction) of what he/she has been saying all along… When you’re reading and a character suddenly realizes, understands, or figures something out... 1. Stop. 2. Ask, “How might this change things?” 2. Ask, “Why would the character act that way?” 3. Problem? Learned about conflict. 3. Make a prediction or an inference. Tough Questions 1. Stop. Life lesson? Learned the theme. Words of the Wiser Tough Questions Contrasts and Contradictions STOP and NOTICE and NOTE STOP and NOTICE and NOTE When you’re reading and a character asks himself a really difficult question... 1. Stop. 2. Ask, “What does this question make ne wonder about?” 3. Answers tell you about conflict or give you ideas about what might happen in the story. When you’re reading and a character (who’s probably older and wiser) takes the main character aside and gives serious advice... 1. Stop. 2. Ask, “What’s the life lesson and how might it affect the character?” 3. Life lesson = theme of the story Again and Again Memory Moment Again and Again Memory Moment STOP and NOTICE and NOTE STOP and NOTICE and NOTE When you’re reading and you notice a word, phrase, object, or situation mentioned over and over... When you’re reading and the author interrupts the action to tell you a memory... 1. Stop. 2. Ask, “Why might this memory be important? 2. Ask, “Why does this keep showing up again and again?” 3. Learn about theme, conflict, or foreshadowing. 1. Stop. 3. Learn about theme, conflict, or foreshadowing. Created by Kim Dennison, 3rd Grade ELA Teacher/Intermediate Literacy Coach, Frontier Elementary, Pinellas County Schools, FL