College and Career Readiness Conference

2014

Participants will examine strategies and skills that support the

understanding of Social Studies and Science texts through close reading.

A close reading is the careful, sustained analysis of any text that focuses on significant details or patterns and that typically examines some aspect of the text’s form, craft, meanings, etc.

(http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/751/01/)

What does PARCC say? Close analytic reading entails the careful gathering of

observations about a text and careful consideration about what those observations taken together add up to — from the smallest linguistic matters to larger

issues of overall understanding and judgment. PARCC Model Content Frameworks for ELA/Literacy, p.6

Why do you think students experience difficulty in reading in the content areas?

Identify the reading behaviors used in the following slides.

Turn and Talk, and then share.

A Child’s Garden of Verses: Selected Poems

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

My Bed Is A Boat

My bed is like a little boat;Nurse helps me in when I embark;She girds me in my sailor’s coatAnd starts me in the dark.

At night I go on board and sayGood-night to all my friends on shore;I shut my eyes and sail awayAnd see and hear no more.

And sometimes things to bed I take,As prudent sailors have to do;Perhaps a slice of wedding-cake,Perhaps a toy or two.

All night across the dark we steer;But when the day returns at last,Safe in my room beside the pier,I find my vessel fast.

Mighty Morphin Milk

You'll need:- 4 ounces of milk- 1 teaspoon of vinegar- a small pan- a small clean jar

What to do:1. Heat the milk in a pan until it curdles, or forms lumps. 2. Slowly pour off the runny liquid. 3. Put the lumps in the jar and add vinegar. Let it stand for an

hour or so.

What happens:After an hour or so, you'll find that a rubbery blob has formed in the jar! Slowly pour off any runny liquid inside. Then take the blob out and shape it into a ball or some other simple shape. Let it harden in the open jar or on a paper towel for a few hours or longer. Once it has dried, you may want to decorate it with acrylic paints.

Why this happens:When the milk and vinegar (or any kind of acid) are mixed together, the milk separates into a liquid and a solid made of fat, minerals, and a protein called casein (KAY-seen). Casein is made up of very long molecules that bend like rubber until they harden.

Who knew that moo juice could be so much fun? Mix milk and vinegar together to create your own plastic, ready to be molded into any shape you want!

Resource: http://kids.discovery.com/activities/science-experiments/mighty-morphin-milk

Reading Like A HistorianAsk questions about what was going on in the world at the time the text was writtenThink carefully about what the author is saying to check for accuracyThink about things that could be shaping the author’s ideasCheck the facts to be sure they are correctThink about why the author chose to use certain wordsCompare the text with other sourcesWrite down who, what, when where, and why to understand connections

Reading Like A Scientist

Ask questions based on facts

Read back and forth between the words and the visuals because it helps to understand the ideas

Make predictions about what they read

Think and make their own pictures in their thoughts while reading

Read closely about an idea or experiment

Consider data-based graphs and charts as important as the words in a text

Read graphs and charts to find patterns and relationships in the data

Evaluate and collect evidence

Read to understand discipline specific terms

Science:Graphic displaysDataCharts and GraphsModels and DiagramsProceduresVideos & Simulations

Social Studies:Primary SourcesMapsVideosPhotographsObjects

Read the text Chart reading behaviors to consider:

*In Red: write reading behaviors of a Historian or Scientist

*In Purple: circle reading behaviors you would like to use but are not as familiar with

“Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death” SpeechPatrick Henry, March 23, 1775

Speech Excerpt:It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, peace, peace -- but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! -- I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!

Full speech text available at: http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/patrick.asp

Image source: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/cph.3b50326/

Read the sample textsTake a Gallery Walk

What makes this text complex? (Green) What considerations will I use in planning?

(Blue) What are the unique discipline reading

behaviors? (Red)

The Preamble to the Constitution of the United States

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Monarch Butterfly Sightings Spring 2014

http://www.learner.org/jnorth/maps/monarch_spring2014.html

ANGANGUEO, Mexico — Every year, millions of orange-and-black butterflies fly the length of North America. They travel to Mexico to spend the winter there. But their journey is in danger.

The number of these monarch butterflies is falling. There are many reasons why. Farmers are using more weed killer. Also, the weather has been severe. And more and more forests are being cut down.

The monarch butterfly colonies in Mexico were much smaller this year than ever before. Scientists say these butterfly groups may soon disappear. The orange-and-black butterfly is a popular insect that most school kids can easily recognize.

Scientists say there are many reasons for the drop in the number of monarch butterflies. But they are focusing on one main reason: The butterflies can't live without a plant called milkweed.

 

Big Drop In Milkweed

Female monarchs lay eggs on milkweed. When they hatch, the larvae grow into caterpillars that eat the milkweed’s leaves. Those leaves contain a poison that protects the monarchs from their predators. The caterpillars then form chrysalises and soon emerge as butterflies.

But the milkweed plant is widely treated as a weed to be destroyed.

The number of fields that have milkweed in them has dropped in the past 10 years. Corn and soybean crops have been changed and weed killer can't hurt them. So farmers can now use a stronger weed killer. That makes it harder for milkweed to grow in the fields.

Most monarch butterflies live only a little more than a month. But some live for seven or eight months. That is long enough to fly to Mexico for the winter. In Mexico, the butterflies often stay in the same trees that their parents or grandparents did.

The butterflies fly back north in the spring. There, they lay eggs on milkweed and then die, making way for the next generation.Resource: http://newsela.com/articles/monarch-crisis/id/3430/

Encourage Speaking & Listening – examine MCCRS

Include Short Focused Research opportunities for students

Select Multiple Texts = more powerful understanding

Set a Classroom Goal for Disciplinary Literacy Reading AND Content!

READING & WRITING

SPEAKING & LISTENING

SCIENCE SOCIAL STUDIES

Turn and Talk:How does linking literacy strategies

into content areas create a more powerful lesson?

On index cards, list five or more considerations when reading a text in your content area. (One idea per card)

Stand Up! If you wrote the same consideration as

the one being shared aloud, put it in the “Great Idea!” Pile in the middle of your table.

The last teacher(s) standing may have thought of something to consider that you didn’t. Remember – let’s learn from each other, we are each other’s greatest resource!