The Prezi we use to introduce each signpost is here.
#Sign posts reading free
Please feel free to post comments about your experiences with the signposts or questions you have. Here are some lessons, books we’ve used, and other resources. Ask yourself, why is this memory important?
Memory Moment: When you’re reading and the author interrupts to share a memory. Ask yourself, why does this keep showing up again and again? Again and Again: When you notice a word, phrase, or situation happening over and over. Beers and Probst give you six signposts that. Ask yourself, what is the life lesson and how will this affect the character? Students should be thinking deeper about the questions they are having or why he or she finds the part surprising. Words of the Wiser: A character (usually older and wiser) takes the main character to the side and gives him or her advice. Ask yourself, how does this change things? Aha Moment: Suddenly a character (or the reader) realizes, understands, or finally figures something out. Ask yourself, what does this make me wonder? Or, the character is faced with a difficult choice. Tough Question: When you’re reading and a character asks a really difficult question. Ask yourself, why would the character do or say this? Contrast and Contradiction: When a characters says or does something that’s opposite from what he or she has been doing or saying all along. The next step is understanding the reason these signposts are in a book (author’s purpose) and what it makes us think about. So far, the students are really learning the signposts and seem to be enjoying them! We are working on identifying them in our books and in the world around us. We have been covering the fiction signposts in class these last couple of weeks. 
This book and the strategies I’ve learned from it have changed the way I teach reading to my students.
Published November 2012 Fiction Signposts Notice and Note: Strategies for Close Reading
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