Use the students’ questions to facilitate inference. If you are reading this book aloud, have students pose questions at the end of each chapter. Have students keep track of their questions using sticky notes. Support your students to probe deeply and “read between the lines” as events unfold. Careful readers of this novel will realize that much is happening that the reader must infer. Reading Strategies: Questioning & Inference. Readers will intuitively understand the big questions the Three Rancheros ask.”Have you ever in your life come to realize that everything, absolutely everything, depends on you?” Ripe for exploration of the soul, courage and bravery, and the bonds of friendship, literary devices and themes, and intertextuality, Raymie Nightingale is sure to foster deep thinking as a read aloud or whole class read, book club book, or independent selection. Objects large and small – a jar of candy corn, particle of dust, stuffed moose head, empty bird cage – take on new meanings. Light and dark imagery serves as a metaphor, allowing the reader to consider along with Raymie the impact of one moment, one person, one authentic good deed. Each has experienced great loss: Raymie’s father has just left her mother, running off with a dental hygienist Beverly’s father left long ago Louisiana and her grandmother are determined to outrun social services and stay out of the county home. Raymie, Beverly, and Louisiana start out as strangers taking baton twirling lessons and end up the “Three Rancheros.” Two of the girls are intent on winning the Little Miss Florida Tire contest, while the other is determined to sabotage it. In a novel about comings and goings, familial bonds and new friendships, loss and identity, DiCamillo takes readers all at once on a deep journey of the soul and a frenzied laugh-out loud romp. And then you got up in the morning and pretended that none of it had happened.” Over the course of one week during the summer of 1975, Raymie Clarke, the ten-year-old protagonist of the almost eponymous novel, bereft over her father’s absence, ponders big ideas and big questions. People confessed to you that they were hungry all the time. People left and people died and people went to memorial services and put orange blocks of cheese into their purses.
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