Getting students engaged in reading so that they think beyond the text is the goal of every educator.  In my Reading in the Elementary School course, I learned about the Book, Head, Heart (BHH) framework. Using this framework, my students are challenged to think about how the text changed them or disrupted their thinking.  The BHH framework encourages students to take ownership of their learning by getting their hearts and minds involved. Engaging with literature shows children that texts are not just for extracting information, they are catalysts for experiences that involve emotion and often times, end up disrupting our thinking.  

Having dialogic discussions about text encourages students to think about how the text touched them or changed their thinking.  These questions and surrounding discussions make the reading meaningful and open a world of possibility.  Supporting students in discussions about high-quality literature encourages student engagement in collaborative coconstruction of knowledge.  These discussions are not dominated by the teacher, instead the students have more responsibility for the flow of the conversation.  Asking open-ended or divergent questions, "serve to inspire a meaningful inquiry toward new understandings." (Reznitskaya, 2012)