Intermediate grades readers face complex ideas when interacting with text.  They must develop capacity to distinguish between what a text says and what they know, believe and wonder.  Developing this capacity includes determining what is important to them as a reader, and to articulate this thinking with examples from text.  This helps them move beyond the practice of simply responding to pre-determined comprehension questions.  BHH allows for readers to tune in to how a text impacts them as a reader, thinker and individual, as they surface author intentions.  It is a flexible and rich routine that can be utilized with a wide variety of texts.

Grades 3+

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To explore more opportunities with BHH, consider Beers & Probst's Disrupting Thinking: Why How We Read Matters (TBC 179541).