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Startling Fact
The reading level of documents, technicalmanuals, and other materials required by entrylevel positions in most fields far exceed thereading level of many students.
Meeting the Challenge of Adolescent Literacy, Judith Irvin, et al
Startling Fact
The American College of Testing found only 51%of U. S. college bound students having developed the ability to read the complex textscentral to college learning and the workplace.
ACT, 2006
2009 NAEP Proficient Reading LevelEighth-grade students performing at the ProficientLevel should be able to:• Provide relevant information • Summarize main ideas and themes• Make and support inferences about a text• Connect parts of a text• Analyze text features• Fully substantiate judgments about content and
presentation of content
How did this happen?Ineffective Reading Practices: • Skimming for answers• Surface processing• Reading and forgetting
Classroom Strategies for Interactive Learning, Doug Buehl
WHY ME?
1. Why should content teachers teach comprehension strategies?
2. What is included in effective comprehension instruction?
What does this mean for my content?
Common Core State Standards
Looks LikeLESS
• Teacher lecture• Always whole group• Assigned seat work with
little opportunity to practice new learning
MORE
• Think a-louds, modeling, process information actively
• Short whole group then small groups to process info
• Opportunities to practice, discuss similar work in pairs/small groups before assigning seat work
Comprehension Coding
! This is important√ I knew that.X This is different from what I thought.? I don’t understand.
Summarizing• Is not:– Retelling– Long– Full of a lot of
interesting details
• Is:– Process of identifying
salient information– Concise & specific– Reinforcing and
consolidating the many processes involved in learning from text
Comprehension Coding and
Summarization
Model Lesson
Prerequisite Skills
• Determine importance• Delete unimportant information• Condense information• Categorize terms into specific groups• Transform condensed information into writing
Animal Clones: Double Trouble?READ – Handout– While Reading: • Stop after each section• Highlight what you think is key to
understanding the text• Write a few words out to the side of most
important information concerning topic
After Reading:
• Share with neighbor – what you highlighted/annotated
• Add to key points or delete some after discussion
• Write in 15 – 25 words the key points in a paragraph or a $2.00 Summary
Argumentative Writing•Making claims and providing evidence is called argumentation.•In academic sense, argumentation refers to the reasoning that someone used to prove a point.
Scientific ArgumentsClaims - what I think is correct or
happenedEvidence – presented to support a claim,
from dataWarrants – explain why this evidence
provides legitimate supportBackings – evidence that a warrant is
valid (not always used)