I created this to show at our professional development meeting. It demonstrated how we went through all of the thinking strategies as we read the book, Out of the Dust. I then shared this with my students. What the videos would have been of. 1st- Japan's earthquake 2nd- Jaws theme song 3rd- Spider spinning its web to show that everything connects

1. How will I?
Am I?

2.  Text-to-Text

3. Text-to-Self

4. Text-to-World

7.  Why wasn’t Nebraska a part of the Dust Bowl?
 Could this happen again?
 Would we be more protected from the storms today
than they were back then?
 How many people died?
 How did they end up surviving?
 Why didn’t everyone just move?
 If you put all the dust storms together, how big would
that storm be?

8.  Question for each section of the
book.
 How did people react when they
saw the starving cows?
 Why does her mom want her to
focus on school instead of the
piano?
 How does their medical
treatment of burns back then
compare to today?
 Do Billie Jo ever cry for the loss of
her mom?
 What will happen to Billie Jo if
her dad dies?

9.  What will happen next in each section?
 Billie Jo’s mom will lose the baby.
 Billie Jo will run away.
 Billie Jo’s dad will remarry.
 Billie Jo’s dad will start planting trees
like the President said, and crops will
grow.

10.  Picking out hints from the text to
figure out what will happen next.
 An example from a movie would be…

12.  “My father has a raised spot on the side
of his nose that never was there before
and won’t go away. And there’s another
on his cheek and two more on his neck,
and I wonder why the heck is he
fooling around. He knows what it is.
His father had those spots too.”

13.  After running away and meeting a man
that had left his wife and children,
Billie Jo is thinking of her father.
 “ My father stayed rooted, even with my
tests and my temper, even with the
double sorrow of his grief and my own,
he had kept a home until I broke it.”

14.  In order to figure that out…
 I made you question what it was
 Make connections from what you saw in this
PowerPoint to your background knowledge
of the strategies
 Made a prediction on what it was
 Therefore combining all the elements of
these strategies leads to…