AUGUST 9, 2012

CCSS Literacy Practices Reading

Let’s get started…

Yesterday, you worked with the CCSS Literacy Standards in the afternoon…

How do you think the new standards will impact your teaching?

What did you notice that was different about the CCSS?

Close Reading

Throughout the standards, Close Reading is frequently mentioned.

In order to learn more about it, we will watch a portion of a Pearson Education webinar with Nicole Franks

We will read a text selection and practice close reading

We will learn about and practice writing “text-dependent” questions

PEARSON EDUCATION WEBINAR

With Nicole Franks

http://www.brainshark.com/pearsonschool/CCSSNicoleFranks022312

Close Reading by Any Other Name

Now that you know more about Close Reading, have you been trained in a similar strategy? What was it called?

Close Reading and the CCSS

Four steps of analysis are reflected in four types ofreading and discussion:

1. What a text says –(CCSS – Anchor Reading #1)

Restatement

2. What a text does –(CCSS – Anchor Reading #3, 4, and 5)

Description

3. What a text means –(CCSS – Anchor Reading #2, 6,and 8)

Interpretation

4. So what does it mean to me? –(CCSS – Anchor Reading #7 and 9)

Application

All Four Questions: (CCSS – Anchor Reading #10)

Going Deeper…

When we read with our students, we are sometimes satisfied when they can recall and comprehend the meaning of the text…as they do after the first reading

With the CCSS, we must go into the more critical and analytical questions

Reading a Text Selection…from the Four Corners

Read the article. Answer questions 1 and 2 on your handout

1. What a text says –(CCSS – Anchor Reading #1)

Restatement

2. What a text does –(CCSS – Anchor Reading #3, 4, and 5)

Description

Read #1

What does the textsay?

What a text says –RESTATEMENT

How does it say it?

What a text does –DESCRIPTION

Close Reading and the CCSS

3. What a text means –(CCSS – Anchor Reading #2, 6,and 8)

Interpretation

4. So what does it mean to me? –(CCSS – Anchor Reading #7 and 9)

Application

Read #2

What does it mean?

What a text means –INTERPRETATION

So what does it meanto me?

So what? –APPLICATION

• Now, re-read the text and answer questions 3 and 4 on your handout

Close Reading

The Four Corners of Text – ALL Content ALL the Time…

Read #1

What does the textsay?

What a text says –RESTATEMENT

How does it say it?

What a text does –DESCRIPTION

Read #2

What does it mean?

What a text means –INTERPRETATION

So what does it meanto me?

So what? –APPLICATION

Processing…

What did you notice about the text the second time you read it that you didn’t catch the first time through?

What inferences did you make the second time around?

Did re-reading and answering questions 3 and 4 require you to process at a different level?

How will close reading benefit our students?

AUGUST 9, 2012

CCSS Literacy Practices Writing

ADAPTED FROM STEP-UP TO WRITING FROM SOPRIS-WEST

Using the IVF formula to create a topic

sentence and write a short summary

paragraph.

What do you think?

Considering the writing standards for the CCSS, what do you think your students will have difficulty doing?

Writing a topic sentenceProviding evidence summarizing

How can we help?

In order to write a clear, concise topic sentence, many students need guidance.

An easy formula is using the IVF.

I—identify the item

V—select a verb

F—finish the thought

Step 1Write a topic sentence using an IVF.

Identify the Identify the itemitem

Provide a Provide a VerbVerb

Finish the Finish the thoughtthought

““Navy to End Navy to End Ban on Ban on Women in Women in Submarines” Submarines” from from News News for You for You

acknowledgesacknowledges it is time to it is time to allow women allow women on naval on naval submarines.submarines.

Using a word bank for verbs can make a big difference.

Acknowledges BlamesClarifiesConfirmsConfrontsComparesCritiquesDefendsDefinesDemonstrates

DescribesEncouragesEndorsesExplains Gives IllustratesOffersPraises ProvidesEtc.

Step 2

Copy your topic sentence to look like a real sentence. Edit to fix spelling, grammar and capitalization errors.

“Navy to End Ban on Women in Submarines” from News for You acknowledges it is time to allow for women on naval submarines.

Step 3 Create a fact outline

Women will board submarines in 2011First women will probably be officers because

officers already have separate living quarters.There will never be less than two women on a

sub at one time.

Step 4 Use your fact outline to write a summary paragraph.

“Navy to End Ban on Women in Submarines” in News for You is an article that acknowledges it is time to allow women on naval submarines. The Navy hopes to do this by allowing women to board submarines on 2011. The first women will probably be officers because officers already have separate living quarters. This is easier and cheaper than trying to restructure a submarine. Also, the plan includes the rule that there would never be less than two women on a submarine at one time. We look forward to seeing women as submarine commanders in the near future.

Some more examples

Finding the Finding the area of a area of a rectanglerectangle

requiresrequires multiplying the multiplying the length times length times the width.the width.

The The circulatory circulatory systemsystem

transferstransfers oxygen to all oxygen to all the cells in the the cells in the brain and the brain and the rest of the rest of the body.body.

Supersize Supersize MeMe, a , a documentary documentary by Morgan by Morgan Spurlock,Spurlock,

followsfollows a 30-day period a 30-day period in which he ate in which he ate only only McDonald’s McDonald’s food.food.

Let’s try another

IVF

(Using your handout)

Identify the item add a verb Finish the thought

Use of the IVF

Once the topic sentence has been written and the fact outline is done, writing the summary will be easier for the student.

Like the 3.8 paragraph, it has a distinct organization which helps the students.

The verb “word bank” can be specialized for specific content areas.

PLEASE COMPLETE THE EVALUATION FOR THIS MORNING, AND LET US KNOW WHAT TYPES OF

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT YOU WILL NEED TO BEGIN USING THESE STRATEGIES IN THE

CLASSROOM

Thank you!