What a Clunker!

No it's not a car that isn't working.  Today in reading, we began group books.  These books are a unique way for all of us to share our reading thoughts together.  Today we talked about encountering a spot in a book that makes you pause because there is something we don't understand.  "Clunks" can be words, phrases, sentences or whole sections of a book.  Fix Up Strategies are the ways we overcome the "clunks."  When kids are reading independently, there should be very few clunks-- if there are a lot, the book he or she is reading is too hard.