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Non-Fiction Matters:Teaching Students to Read and Understand Informational Text
Presented by Angela Maiers, 2007
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For ALL students to achieve at the highest level and attain success in any venture as learners,
workers, and citizens of the twenty first
century.
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What do we know about the 21st Century World ?
95% of daily reading and writing will be devoted to non-fiction or informational materials and tasks
Over 1.9 billion readers and writers are now on the Internet; 96% of the sites on are expository in form
Futurists predict that by 2020 the amount of information will double every 73 days
Only .01 percent of that information will be printed
"How Much Information." School of Information Management & Systems. 2000. Regents of the University of California. 13 March, 2004.
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Girls Like NF Too!!!!
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Data on Nonfiction Reading
73% 3F/P levels below fiction
15% 3 GRADE LEVELS below fiction
6% Struggled with decoding (Boys/Girls)
Stead, 2007
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What Makes NF Hard? NOT FICTION!!!!!
BACKGROUND
VOCABULARY
STRATEGIES
MINDSET
PERSERVERANCE
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Read Nonfiction Like Fiction!
VS.
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Read Nonfiction Like Fiction!
VS.
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Word Problem Solving
1.Context
2.Affixes-Prefix and Suffix
3.Bases/Core Words
4.Roots
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spect inspect
perspective
introspective
spectacles
spectacular
respectinspection
inspector
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graph
bibliography
autograph paragraphphotography
graphic
autobiography
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Schema
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Text Knowledge
Teaching students how to recognize and represent the
organizational patterns commonly used by authors can significantly influence
students’ learning and comprehension.
Palinstar, Ogle, Carr, 97
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Background Knowledge???
WarrantyWarranty
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The Grocery Store
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Strategy Lessons for Nonfiction• Skimming or Previewing the Text • Scanning• Assessing the text through the index• Using heading ,captions, pictures,…• Determining what to read, order of reading• Noting organizational pattern• Deterring what to pay attention to• Determining what to ignore• What information fits with schema, what is
new: how to sort it
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100% Rule100% RuleFocu
s Stamina
Attention Concentration
Speed/Rate
Self-Monito
r
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Planning For Instruction
Driving Reading
Before
During
After
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Strategy Lessons for Nonfiction• Skimming or Previewing the Text • Scanning• Assessing the text through the index• Using heading ,captions, pictures,…• Determining what to read, order of reading• Noting organizational pattern• Deterring what to pay attention to• Determining what to ignore• What information fits with schema, what is
new: how to sort it
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Text SurveyHeading/Subheading Visuals Text Support Questions/Predictions
What do you expect to be reading about?
What words/vocabulary do you anticipate to learn?
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Roundtable Alphabet 1960’s
AApollo
BBeatles
CCivil Rights
DDrugs
EEasy Rider
FFlag Burning
G
HHippies
I JJimi Hendrix
KKennedy
LLong Hair
MMoon Walk
NNixon
O PProtests
Q RRock Music
SSexual Revolution
T U
VVietnam
WWoodstock
X Y ZMao Zedong
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Content Bibliography I See What You Mean by Steve Moline Nonfiction in the Primary Years by Nell Duke Teaching Non-Fiction 2-4 and 4-8 Scholastic Prof. Books Nonfiction Matters by Stephanie Harvey Nonfiction in Focus by Kristo and Bamford Text Forms and Features by Margaret Mooney Make It Real by Linda Hoyt Informational Text by Margaret Mooney and Linda Hoyt Reading and Writing in Multiple Genre by Byers Picture Story Books to Teach Literary Devices by Susan Hill
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