BOOK HEAD HEART Reading: Get your students to really connect with their independent reading!
Book Head Heart framework comes from Disrupting Thinking by Kylene Beers and Robert E Probst. This framework helps students think more deeply about their texts.
A readers thinks about what is ...
In the Book:
In his/her Head: What thinking did the reader do?
In his/her Heart: How did the reader connect emotionally to the text and learn from it?
A readers thinks about what is ...
In the Book:
- What’s the book about?
- Who’s telling the story?
- What does the author want me to know?
In his/her Head: What thinking did the reader do?
- What surprised me?
- What did the author think I already knew?
- What challenged changed or confirmed my thinking?
- What did I notice?
In his/her Heart: How did the reader connect emotionally to the text and learn from it?
- What did I learn about myself?
- How will this help me to be better?
- What does this make me feel?