A big part of this is listening to your Inner Reader Voice. The kids are really getting good this and we have slowly begun the transition from thinking about our reading mentally to jotting our thinking down so that we can share. Students read and jotted down their thinking independently then shared together with the class. This is called READ. THINK. SHARE.
Once we were finished I had the kids reflect on one thing they learned (Content Response) and how talking with their group helped their understanding of the text (Process Response). This helps me see how much they understood about the lesson and how they felt about the activity. Apparently, they got a lot out of it and like it! *happy dance*