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If RosaParks Could Text…
K-5 Content Area Writing
by Jen Jones
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Boston Harbor Brain DrainA Demonstration Writing Activity
^ 2015, Hello Literacy
Language Development
ListeningSpeakingWritingReading
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Basic Literacy
Intermediate Literacy
Disciplinary Literacy
Where does Content Area writing fall?
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Basic Literacy“learning to read”
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Basic LiteracyLettersSoundsSegmentingBlendingSyllablesSpelling Patterns
Sight WordsSentencesVowel BlendsSight WordsSight PhrasesParagraphHandwriting
GrammarParts of Speech
VocabularyFluencyPoems
Centers
practicing to read, in isolation^ 2015, Hello Literacy
Intermediate Literacy
“reading to learn”
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Intermediate Literacy
“writing to learn”
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Intermediate LiteracyText TypesBooksMagazinesBook SeriesWebsitesTextbooksBrochures
Text GenresBiographiesJournalsMemoirsArticlesInformationalText
Text StructuresDescriptionCompare/Contrast
Cause/EffectProblem/Solution
Sequence of Events
^ 2015, Hello Literacy
Intermediate LiteracyAuthor’s PurposePersuadeExplainEntertainInform
Author’s ViewpointUnderstand the author’s perspective & thoughts, & feelings
Author’s ReasonsReasonsArgumentsClaimsJustifications
^ 2015, Hello Literacy
Helping Kids Get in the Right Lane
Fiction NF Article Poem Song
CharacterProblemSolutionChanges
What is the structure?
What features can
help me?Mostly about
Big IdeaBigger IdeaKey Details
What is the author’s
message?What did he want me to
think or understand?
What is thisreally about?
Who is talking?
How does the author want me to feel?
What is the tune? How does it go?What’s the
feeling?What’s the message?
^ 2015, Hello Literacy
Most of the content area writing that students do at the Intermediate Literacy level is content area “pre-writing” …learning, researching and
trying to understand the content in order to write well
about the topic.^ 2015, Hello Literacy
Examples of content area writing at the Intermediate Level…
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GraphicOrganizers
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Graphic Organizers
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Graphic Organizersas pre-writing planners
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Venn Diagrams
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RAFTS
^ 2015, Hello Literacy
Annotating
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Two Column Notes
^ 2015, Hello Literacy
Content Area Close Readingwith Two-Column Notes…all strategies at once
^ 2015, Hello Literacy
Sticky Notes
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Inquiry Research
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Notetaking
^ 2015, Hello Literacy
Wordles
^ 2015, Hello Literacy
Biopoems ABC Lists
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Creative Projects
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Science Notebooking
^ 2015, Hello Literacy
Fake Social Media
Fake Social Media
Disciplinary Literacy
^ 2015, Hello Literacy
^ 2015, Hello Literacy
BIG ROCKS of
Content Area Writing
Image: D. Garland ^ 2015, Hello Literacy
most like real world writing
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for a real purpose and a real audience
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student write their worst when “teacher” is the audience
Some strategies for developing disciplinary
literacy…
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#1 Help students write like an author.
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Watch mentor cooks
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Give it go!
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Reading Authors Closely
“What have you read that is like what you are
trying to write?”^ 2015, Hello Literacy
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Study Author’s Craft
^ 2015, Hello Literacy
Mentor Text Types
^ 2015, Hello Literacy
Not All (Snake) Booksare the Same!
{RIT.7, RIT.8, RIT.9}
1 Topic, 3 Purposes
Snakes are dangerous!
Snakes arealways hunting!
Snakes arequiet & sweet!
^ 2015, Hello Literacy
“After deciding on a specific genre in which to write, teachers should seek out strong examples of the very writing their students will soon be doing. This can be the most challenging part as it takes time to locate and identify strong pieces to use. However, these texts are a vital piece to the teaching process because much of the teaching about how to craft these kinds of texts will come from these examples.” (Pytash & Morgan, 2014)
^ 2015, Hello Literacy
not so much about WHAT the author is saying…
…but HOW they are saying it.
“Reading Like a writer”(Ray, 2006)
^ 2015, Hello Literacy
Authors have WAY of doing what they do…study that way and write that way.
^ 2015, Hello Literacy
#2 Help students understand text structure.
^ 2015, Hello Literacy
Description Comparison Problem-Solution
Cause and Effect
Sequence of Events
is a characteristic of is similar toa reason for the
problemcauses first, second
for example is different from the problem is effects next
most important although a solution is as a result of on (date)
to illustrate instead the question is since initially
is a feature of however as a result of because (of) finally
also in the same way the dilemma is for this reason not long ago
another but difficulty consequently now
in fact yet the challenge is leads following
for instance similarly solve produces preceding
such as while help in order to before
in addition on the other hand one answer is effects of after
just like, just as one solution is if…then when
likewise this led to during
whereas therefore
Text Structure Signal Words
^ 2015, Hello Literacy
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Articles
for
Teaching
all 5
Text
Structures^ 2015, Hello Literacy
#3 Help students ask “How do historians, and scientists write?”
^ 2015, Hello Literacy
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