Sizzling Strategies for Reading Nonfiction

Stevi QuateSeptember 5 & 6, 2015

WHO’S IN THE ROOM?

ESSENTIAL QUESTION:

WHAT DOES A TEACHER NEED TO KNOW TO ENGAGE STUDENTS IN

COMPREHENDING NON-FICTION TEXT?

CAROUSEL BRAINSTORMING

The man who does not read has no

advantage over the man who cannot read.

Thoughtful reading is only rarely a matter of insight. It is a gradual, groping process.

--Denny Palmer Wolf, Reading Reconsidered

WHAT CAN A TEACHER DO?

Page 3 & last page

Skill/Strategy

Skill/Strategy

to find the “what”

Strategies: how

Take a peek into your deep dark thoughts as you read

Annotate

LEAVE TRACKS OF

YOUR THINKING

Does this help?

ThinkingStrategies

Page 6

Setting a

PURPOSE for

reading.

Previewing and predicting

Activating

Background

knowledge

Monitoring, clarifying, and

fixing

Look at your annotations

Visualizing and creating visual representative

Asking Questions

Summarizing and retelling

Drawing inferences

The questions that poultry men face as they raise chickens from incubation to adult life are not easy to answer. Both farmers and merchants can become concerned when health problems such as coccidiosis arise any time after the egg state to later life. Experts recommend that young chicks should have plenty of sunshine and nutritious food for healthy growth. Banties and geese should not share the same barnyard or even sleep in the same roost. They may be afraid of the dark.

Look at your annotations

Assigning vs Teaching

Mini-lesson

PRACTICE

4 hours/day x

180 days a year x

13 years of school

9360 hours

Mini-lesson Connect Teach Active

engagement Link

Connect

Readers know that the author is signaling an important point when new information causes the reader to revise the images in their mind.

TEACH

Read page 7 and watch how your images shift and new meaning is made

Active Engagement

Link

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The Reading Strategies Book © 2015 Jennifer Serravallo

Your turn

Which thinking strategies might you urge students to try?

Strategy Confusion

THINKING STRATEGY• Setting a purpose• Visualizing• Questioning• Drawing inferences• Monitoring• …

INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGY• Annotating• Sketch-note• Annotation write around• Reciprocal teaching• Conversation questions• Silent chalk talk• ….

SIMULATION

BEFORE: set purpose, arouse curiosity

DURING: use the TS to construct meaning

AFTER: deepen, extend understanding

STRATEGY-BASED

INQUIRY-BASED

Inquiry Questions

How does our understanding of our species shift if animals too are deemed intelligent?

Can we really use the word intelligence with regard to animals?

We think that crows are smart but what do we really know?

Intelligence takes on diverse meanings for different species and researchers think we are too prone to use human standards.

“Motivated reading behavior is characterized by students valuing and engaging in the act of reading with expectations of success and with greater persistence and stamina when encountering difficulty; as such, motivation is directly tied to personal interest and self-efficacy as well as achievement.” -- Pearson et al.

We've all heard talk of animal intelligence. We speak of crafty crows, clever foxes, discerning

dolphins and brilliant squids, but can we really use the word

intelligence with regard to animals?

THE LARGEST LAND ANIMALS EXHIBIT COMPLEX SOCIAL BEHAVIORS AND ARE FREQUENTLY OBSERVED GRIEVING FOR LONG PERIODS NEAR DEAD RELATIVES.

If we look straight and deep into a chimpanzee’s eyes, an intelligent self-assured personality looks back at us. If they are animals, what must we be?

– Frans de Waal

Scientists use rats to detect tuberculosis in saliva.

Inquiry Questions

How does our understanding of our species shift if animals too are deemed intelligent?

Can we really use the word intelligence with regard to animals?

SEMINAR

Silent Chalk Talk

Reciprocal Teaching• Summarizer• Clarifier• Questioner• Predictor

CONVERSATION QUESTIONS

EXPLOREhttps://sites.google.com/

site/readinginthedisciplines/

home

SITES TO EXPLORE

https://sites.google.com/site/readinginthedisciplines/

home

OR

http://padlet.com/steviq/IQ

Mini-lesson Connect Teach Active

engagement Link

Hold on to your thinking

STAR SEMINAR

REFLECTION

Welcome Back!

Power Brainstorm

ESSENTIAL QUESTION:

WHAT DOES A TEACHER NEED TO KNOW TO ENGAGE STUDENTS IN

COMPREHENDING NON-FICTION TEXT?

Today• Incorporate motivating texts • Engage students in discussion• Teach strategies – disciplinary literacy strategies

Motivation?

GOT TALK?

The Problem

• Not enough discourse • IRE pattern predominates

WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO INCREASE DISCOURSE?

• A safe, respectful classroom community where students and teachers know each other well

• Skills for discourse• Something worthy of

discussing• Time to think

CLASSROOM COMMUNITYDoes everyone know

each other’s name?Has everyone interacted

with each other?Have norms been set,

practiced, reviewed, and maintained?

Is the room put down-free and sarcasm-free?

Skills for HOW to function like a group

How to look like a group

How to share the airspace

How to disagree/agree

And….

TIP

Start small: pairs or trios at the most

SOMETHING WORTHY OF DISCOURSE

INQUIRY

Can you google it?

Source: Jeff WilhelmX

TIME TO THINK

• Wait time• Time to prepare– Think, pair, share– Write for rehearsal– Or….

http://padlet.com/steviq/discourse

Motivating texts and contexts

Will and thrill along with the skill.

TEXT SETS:

CHOICE AND

ENGAGEMENT

E-Waste

Launch a unit

Your Questions

Your Answers

Launch a lesson

Companion piece

Build a text set around your text

Decide how you will use that set

https://sites.google.com/site/readinginthedisciplines/engaging-texts

Disciplinary Literacy

General Literacy

Basic Literacy

The increasing specialization of

literacy development

Timothy & Cynthia Shanahan, Teaching Disciplinary Literacy to Adolescents: Rethinking Content Area Literacy

Disciplinary Literacy

Disciplinary reading refers to the specialized ways of knowing and communicating in the different disciplines.

Math Reading

• Goal: arrive at “truth”• Important: “close reading” of

every word in the text, precision • Heavy emphasis on error

detection

Chemistry Reading• Goal: predict how the world works• Important considerations: full understanding of

experiments or processes• Close connections among prose, graphs, charts,

formulas

History Reading

• Goal: make sense of the past • Important considerations: sourcing, corroboration,

context• Problem: single texts

• …these reading strategies work in tandem with the more discipline-specific literacy strategies to help students achieve their learning goals.

DIG IN!

FIND FIVE NUGGETS YOU MIGHT TEACH

READING:

Assigned or

taught?

Mini-LessonModeling and Teaching

How am I going to connect this lesson to the students? How will I ensure it’s relevant?• Something I noticed in their work• A story that illustrates why this is important?• Something I’ve noticed with past students?

active engagement

Link

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:WHAT DOES A TEACHER NEED TO KNOW TO

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