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