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Please do not read this to the students.  This is a description for teachers, about the big ideas and key understanding that students should take away after completing this task.\nBig Ideas and Key Understandings\nIt may not be easy to achieve your dreams, but when you maintain a positive attitude and continue to persevere through the struggles, all things are possible.\nSynopsis\nThe author, Helen Lester, traces her writing career from the age of three to adulthood.  She shares her struggles with writing in elementary school and even later as a successful writer.  Helen’s story demonstrates that even the most challenging struggles can be overcome with persistence and a good sense of humor.  Her journey serves as a wonderful guide for young writers as well as an entertaining piece of literature.\nRead entire main selection text, keeping in mind the Big Ideas and Key Understandings.\nRe-read the main selection text while noting the stopping points for the Text Dependent Questions and teaching Vocabulary.\nDuring Teaching\nStudents read the entire main selection text independently.\nTeacher reads the main selection text aloud with students following along. (Depending on how complex the text is and the amount of support needed by students, the teacher may choose to reverse the order of steps 1 and 2.)\nStudents and teacher re-read the text while stopping to respond to and discussthe questions and returning to the text.  A variety of methods can be used to structure the reading and discussion (i.e.:  whole class discussion, think-pair-share, independent written response, group work, etc.)\nText Dependent Questions\nText-dependent Questions\nEvidence-based Answers\nReread page 261. An autobiography is the story of a person’s life written by that person. Who is the story about?\nThe story is about Helen Lester.\nHow old was Helen when she first became an author?  What did she write? (Pg. 261)\nHelen first became an author when she was three years old.  She wrote grocery lists for her mother.\nReread page 262.  Helen says that “the fun part of writing grocery lists was that she could turn the lists upside down and the words said the same thing.”  What does she mean?\nThe words that she wrote in her grocery list were nonsense words, and they looked the same in any direction that someone looked at them.  The words she wrote were not readable.  Since Helen had not learned to write, she scribbled nonsense words on the “grocery lists”.  These illegible scribbles looked the same no matter which way you turned them because they didn’t say or mean anything.\nUsing the illustration and the text on page 263, explain in your own words the term “mirror writer”.\nWhen Helen went to school and learned to write letters, she wrote everything backwards in the wrong direction.  She started writing words on the page from right to left instead of from left to right.  Her teachers had to hold her work up to a mirror to understand what she wrote.  This is called mirror writing.\nReread the last paragraph on page 264. After overcoming mirror writing, Helen continued to have a hard time with writing.  Why was writing stories so difficult for Helen? 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