Post on 17-Jan-2018
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Real Rigor: Textbooks, print and nonprint texts
Dr. Diane KernURI EDC 448
Session 3
What we’ll do today…
Evaluate textbooks; try out the Fry readability formulas with our textbooks
Discuss the place of e-texts (nonprint texts) and trade books in the secondary school classroom
Consider your guiding principles for choosing print and nonprint texts to support/enhance your instruction
Booktasting
Admit Slip
Think about your note taking for Tovani’s Chapters 1, 2, and 4.
Which note taking ‘tool’ did you use? What worked? What didn’t work? How might you use this or adapt this in
your own teaching?
Assessing our texts
Informal Reading Inventory Content Area Reading Inventory Cloze assessments Readability formulasTry one out…the Fry Readability formula
Practical implications for our classrooms…
Know our texts, our guiding principles Make knowledgeable, quality choices of
text material Use assessment to inform instruction Make informed text book adoptions Use text book materials “strategically” to
bring our students and texts together (not apart!)
Teaching reading with texts
E-texts (online vs. offline) Tradebooks Text booksREADER + TEXT + STRATEGIES = MEANING Before reading During Reading After Reading…link to lesson plan
Know our guiding principles when selecting texts
Personal criteria Multicultural literature criteria Evaluating websites/etexts
Exit Slip
Booktasting! “Taste” a variety of tradebooks or surf the
web for e-texts that meet YOUR criteria for use in your classroom.
Share your criteria with colleagues