
Blog: Common Core
Week 3
Chapter 4 Notes: Common Core Presentation Notes
Date: 1/25/2016
Author: Lezza Merrill
Beginning Readers, the Teaching of Reading, and the Common Core
Phonemic Awareness
What do we know about Phonemic Awareness?
Practical Ideas for Teaching Phonemic Awareness/ CCSS
Rhyme: rhyming, rhyme scheme, prediction of rhyming
Phonemic Manipulation:
Sound Isolation: break apart word sounds, to identify beginning middle and end parts.
Sound Addition or Deletion: add or substitute sounds to make new words
Full Segmentation: word broken up into individual sounds
Phonics
What do we know about Phonics?
Develops: alphabetic principle
Phonological awareness
Understanding of letters
No rules, no worksheet, not domination of instruction, not boring
Practice of reading
Leads to automatic word recognition
Practical Ideas for Teaching Phonics/ CCSS
Alphabet Scrapbook: create a blank book, and allow students to write words for each letter, and illustrate to show their knowledge. Labels and images from magazines are welcome
Making words: manipulation of groups of letters to create words of varying lengths.
Making and Writing w/ Letter Patterns: write the original patterns of words, to make new words
Onset and Rhyme Word Wall/ Portable Word Wall: 37 common rhymes
Fluency
What do we know about Fluency?
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The clear, easy, written or spoken expression of ideas
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The freedom from word identification problems that might hinder comprehension
Practical Ideas for Teaching Fluency/ CCSS
Model Fluent Reading: provides examples of fluency for young readers to follow
Choral Reading: teacher and students read TOGETHER, keeps students engaged
Echo Reading: teacher reads, students echo, teacher models proper reading
Repeated Reading:partners, strong paired with less able (role of teache/student) 4 times repeated, practice makes perfect
Readers Theatre: a read through of a script
Narrator: Sets the scene, provides information.
Readers: use their voices to create the scenes and characters
Vocabulary
What do we know about Vocabulary?
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The growth of a person’s stock of known words and meanings
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The teaching-learning principles and practices that lead to growth, comparing and classifying word meanings, using contexts, and analyzing root words and affixes
Practical Ideas for Teaching Vocab/ CCSS
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Semantic Maps
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Semantic Feature Analysis
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V Visual- Auditory- Kinesthetic-Tactile: multisensory techniques; point out word, and pronounce word, then write it
O Onsets and Rimes: onset; before the vowel, rime; vowel and rest of word
C Clusters: set of words that relate to one concept
A ABC books and anagrams: create own alphabet book and illustrate based on prior knowledge, anagrams; another way to learn vocab or spelling
B Book Boxes: boxes of related materials
Boxes for visual configuration: visual; drawing around words to emphasize them
Word Banks: for storing and memorizing self and teacher selected words
U Unknown words: beep, frame being, split, and find it
L Language Experience Approach: tell a story, teacher creates a book using students words, then reads the book
A Active Involvement: involved in learning and using vocabulary
R Repetition, Rhymes, Riddles, and Roots: multiple settings, word play, and structural analysis
Y Yarns: spin yarns, and tall tales, storytelling or writing
Reading Comprehension
What do we know about Reading Comprehension?
“Reading Comprehension strategies can be taught in the primary grades.”
3 Most Important Things:
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Students benefit from using comprehension strategies and routines
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Having opportunities to read, write, and talk matters
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Knowledge help comprehension by providing a starting point
Practical Ideas for Teaching Reading Comprehension/ CCSS
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Text structures and strategies
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Summarizing
Previewing: Storybook Introductions
Self- questioning: Draw and Write “I Wonder” statements
Making Connections: Draw and Write connections
Visualizing: Draw and Write connections
Monitoring: Say Something
Knowing how words work: Semantic Question Map
Summarizing: Paired Summarizing
Evaluating: Discussion Webs
Week 5
Chapter 7 Notes: Common Core Presentation Notes
Date: 2/8/2016
Author: Lezza Merrill
CCSS Chapter 7:
CCR Reading Anchor Standard 1:
Reading Closely and Citing Textual Evidence
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What does ccr reading anchor standard one mean?
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Reading Closely:
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Close Reading: Reading “like” a detective.
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Method used by college level english classes, literary analysis:
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observe carefully, look for facts and details, discover and interpret.
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analyze evidence, look for claims, interpret observations and make inferences.
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Making Logical Inferences:
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ALWAYS making inferences, look for clues in the text
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building of background knowledge
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Citing Textual Evidence:
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“Citing text as the source of evidence involves being able to extract word verbatim to prove a point.”
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Main Ideas
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Details
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How do the ccss build to ccr reading anchor standard one?
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k-2 emphasis on learning to ask and answer questions
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3 ask and answer questions, refer to text to support answers
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4 refer to text and draw inferences
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5 emphasis shift; quoting text for asking and answering questions
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6-12
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Identifying key details
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asking and answering questions
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making logical inferences
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citing textual evidence
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What literacy skills and strategies support common core reading standard one?
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Close Reading:
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Read Alouds
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Shared Reading
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Kindergarten: given prompting and support throughout the year
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1st grade prompting and support as needed - 3rd grade
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Choose:
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stories
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dramas
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poetry
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ALL with
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rich language
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varied sentence structures
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complex ideas
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how can we teach reading standard one to ensure that our students achieve?
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Identifying Key Details
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k-5
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key details
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Characters
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Setting
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Problem
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Resolution
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Asking and Answering Questions:
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Thick and Thin questions
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Thin: literal questions
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Think: Inferencing questions
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Making Inferences
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Citing Textual Evidence
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Understanding Text
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Technology Connections to Standard 1
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How can we integrate other ela standards with reading standard one?
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Integrating other ela standards with reading literature standard one
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Integrating other ela standards with reading informational text standard one
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1st Grade:
Differentiated Instruction: ELL
Content: Focus on their culture
Process: 5W’s in their native language
Product: orally present
Before: Explain what is going to be taught
During: differentiated instruction
After: product can be created
Differentiated Instruction: Struggling students
Content: focus on their level
Process: step by step, question starters
Product:illustrations and labels with caption
Before: Background Knowledge
During: differentiated
After: differentiated products
Differentiated Instruction: Gifted
Content: text in advanced levels
Process: no need for labels, different graphic organizer
Product: written response
Before: extra resources
During: add more questions
After: encourage more details
5th Grade:
Answering questions based on textual evidence
model using read alouds
questions and colored pencils.
Differentiated Instruction: ELl
Content: provide the appropriate text, provide in their native language
Process : underline key words and details
Product: students can discuss orally the answer
Before: articles translated into native language, discuss beforehand
During: discuss specific instruction, process and modeling of highlighting
After: orally, written and visually
Differentiated Instruction: Struggling Students
Content: simple shorter with pictures, appropriate levels
Process: specific things to look for when highlighting
Product: graphic organizer
Before: individual student level and abilities- appropriate, background knowledge
During: process modeling with all three texts
After: present answers in different ways
Differentiated Instruction: Gifted
Content: Chunked texts, appropriate levels, time for extra resources
Process: notes and underline extras
Product: provide more details
Before: Appropriate and extra opportunities for extra resources
During: Process- model note taking
After: written response to the questions
Week 6
Chapter 8 Notes: Common Core Presentation Notes
Date: 2/19/2016
Author: Lezza Merrill
Chapter 8: Determining Central Ideas and Themes
What does ccr reading anchor standard 2 mean?
-- Determine the point of the text: The Main Idea. - Identify clear main ideas or purposes of complex passages or their passages.
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The Ability to Determine the Central Idea of Theme of a text
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The Ability to Analyze the Development of Ideas or Themes in a Text
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The Ability to Summarize the Key Details and Ideas in a Text
Central Ideas in informational text:
The understanding of the message that the author is trying to convey.
Magazines
Newspapers
Textbooks/Websites
Technical Materials
Themes in Literature:
Read and Analyze Texts:
Books
Short Stories
Plays
Poetry
Theme:
The author’s message to the reader.
Value of Judgement about different aspects of life
Through the title of a text,
How the characters feel
what the characters think or say
What the characters learn
Conflicts
Events/Actions
Summarizing Key Supporting Details and Ideas:
Extracting the most important ideas from a text
How do the common core standards build to ccr anchor standard 2?
4 Main Skills
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Retelling and Recounting (Early grades)
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Determining themes in literary text (with a focus on fable and folk tales in grades 2 and 3)
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Determining main ideas and key details in informational texts (4th and 5th grades
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Summarizing
Early Primary Students:
Learn to retell stories
What literacy skills and strategies support reading anchor standard 2?
Stories
Dramas
Poetry
Themes
Love
Honesty and Deception
Family
Prejudice
Growing up
The Environment
Battle between good and evil
Journey Home
Fables
Fantasy
Folk Tales
Myths
Strategies
K- Beginning, Middle and Ending
Retelling a story with details
1st- Story Grammar
Retell a story with details
Author’s Message
2nd- Story Grammar
Structure of Fables and Folktales
Stories from diverse cultures
Retell a story with details
Message, lesson, and moral
3rd- Story Grammar
Structure of Fables and Folktales
Stories from diverse cultures
Retell a story with details
Message, lesson, and moral, message of myth
Key details/ Author’s Message
4th- Theme of a story, poem or drama
Key Details of theme
Summarize
5th- Theme of story, poem and or drama
Summarize
Challenges that characters face
Explain characters responses
Identify topics
Explain how the speaker in a poem reflects the topic.
How can we teach reading standard 2 so our students achieve?
Magazine Articles
Nonfiction books
Website
Newspaper articles
Story Structure: S-T-O-R-Y
5 Elements of Grammar
Characters
Setting
Problem
Attempts to resolve
Resolution
S- Setting
T- talking characters
O- oops! a problem
R- attempts to resolve problem
Y- yes, the problem is solved.
Retelling: Draw and Label Retelling:
Summarizing the events in a passage.
Orally
Written
Sketching
Dramatization
Who
Where
What
How
--Characters, Setting, Problem and Solution
Determine Message, Lesson or Moral
Main Idea and Supporting Details
Main Idea Table
One main idea
3 supporting details
Summarizing: The bio-Pyramid
Technology Connections
Digital Storytelling
How can we integrate other ELA standards with reading standard 2?
Integrating Other Ela Standards With Reading Literature Standard 1
1 Reading a narrative text closely
3 being able to describe characters
5 terms like chapter, scene or stanza
7 illustrations based in a text or multimedia version
9 comparing and contrasting
Integrating Other Ela Standards With Reading Literature Standard 2
1 reading informational text closely
3 describing connections and relationships among people, events, ideas
7 illustrations in a text or multimedia version
THE COMMON CORE IN ACTION
Common Core Literacy Task: Determining the Central Idea in a Literary Text
Who, What, Where, Why, and how questions about details
How characters respond to events and challenges
Structures of Folktales
Differences in point of view for the characters
using the illustrations to help understand the story.
Week 7
Chapter 9 Notes: Common Core Presentation Notes
Date: 2/22/2016
Author: Lezza Merrill
Week 7
Chapter 9 Notes: Common Core Presentation Notes
Date: 2/22/2016
Author: Lezza Merrill
Week 8
Chapter 10 Notes: Common Core Presentation Notes
Date: 3/4/2016
Author: Lezza Merrill
Standard :
What does it mean?
Interpret and analyze author's use of language in texts of all different difficulties and understand how the author's words add to the meaning of the text.
Characteristics of complex text
Determine the meaning of text
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Diction: the way a word is pronounced or an author's word choice and style of expression
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The choice of device that the author uses when writing the text creates an effect that will relate to the meaning of the text.
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Diction Devices: Students analyze text for diction devices and try to understand why the author chose to put the words in the text.
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Denotation: technical meanings
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Connotation: how to interpret words
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Fig. Lang. : simile, metaphor, alliteration, personification
Informational Texts:
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Must understand language being used in a content area in order to comprehend text on the matter
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Symbols
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Key terms
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Domain Specific Vocabulary
5 College Reading Skills
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Ability to interpret word and phrases
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Ability to determine the technical meanings
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Ability to determine the Connotative meanings
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Ability to determine Fig. Language.
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Ability to analyze how word choices determine meaning of tone.
K- Asking and answering questions about unknown words
1-2- focus on words and phrases
3-4- students learn to determine the meaning of words and phrases
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Differentiation: Content, Process and Product
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ELL- more pictures, easier texts, give texts in their language. may give english translation
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Struggling: group with ELL if at same level, more pictures, easier texts, help comprehend, teacher guidance.
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Gifted: more complex books, more “domain specific” and context specific
4 Main Skills
Asking and answering questions about words
Words and Phrases that suggest feeling………………….
Skills and Strategies
Vocabulary: Need to build vocabulary
How to teach standard 4
Asking and Answering questions
Derive meaning
Prefixes and Suffixes
common grade latin and greek affixes and roots
5 morphological instructional strategies
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segment and build with morphemes
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use affixes and root meaning
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use morphemes to improve spelling
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segment compound words and combine to create words and compound words
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identify cognates to support ELL
Guidelines:
Gradually teach derivatives of words
Affix: introduction of words, of most used definition
Deconstruct words that have meaningful parts
Other tips
Root word Cards
Charts with Affix rules
Venn Diagrams
Graphic organizers
Sensory Synonym and Antonyms (ACTIVITY)
Semantic Feature Analysis (Graphic Organizers)
Tech Connection
Multi Media Presentations
APPS: The opposites
Same Meaning Magic
Wordle
Week 9
Chapter 11 Notes: Common Core Presentation Notes
Date: 3/18/2016
Author: Lezza Merrill
Analyze the Author:
--analyze how the authors choice affect the structure of the text contributing to the overall structures
-Should be able to analyze and comprehend:
How to order events
Relationships among the text
Focuses on two reading skills
--analyze the structure
--relate sentence, paragraphs and larger portions of text, to the whole
Book and Text Structures
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Book: Cover, Front page table of context, organized text, glossary, indes
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Organization; arrangement of ideas and relationships; text comprehension support by organization; knowledge about information
Narrative
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Description: pattern of characteristics, topics, persons, events and objects.
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Sequence: pattern of order placement
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Compare and contrast:
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Cause and Effect:
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Problem and Solution:
Informational:
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Structure to help understand the type of information within the text and to help make predictions about what might happen.
CCSS 5
K-common types of texts
1-Differences fiction/ non fiction
2- overall structure of the story
3 Refer to specific parts of stories, dramas and plays
4 Major differences, poems, dramas and plays
5 Series of chapters, stanzas
CCSS 5 Informational
K identify parts of a book
1 text features to locate things in books
2 know and use feature in locating things in books
3 text features and search tools to locate infomation
4 describe overall structure of books
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3 main skills
Ability to use text features
Identify features within literary text
Identify features within informational text
Skills
Literary
K-Poems and storybooks,
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Fiction and informational texts
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Beginning middle and end
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Chapters, scene and stanza
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Poems, drama, elements of stories
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Parts fit into the whole
Informational
K- keys parts of books
1 heading, table of contents, glossary
2 caption, bold print, subheadings
3 keywords, sidebars
4 chronology, comparison, cause and effect, problem/solution
5 compare and contrast overall structure
Teaching informational structure
Sequencing: worksheets
Description: graphic organizers, work with words and phrases
Other standards
Standard One:
Standard Two: Retelling with narrative elements
W-standard 3: encourage the learning of literary elements in a story
S/L standard 2: Encourage discussion, before, during and after read aloud
Primary Activity:
Flipbooks for compare and contrast, cause and effect, describing, sequencing
Diff: ELL
Same structures
Pictures with name structures
Labeling
L1
Flipbook in their native language
Conference in teacher
Diff: struggling
Presenting to the teacher, same structures, labeling and drawing
Diff: Gifted
Same structures
Labeling, pictures, definitions
Present to the whole class.
Intermediate: 4th grade
Description, sequence, comare and contrast, scaffolding, explicit instruction
Week 10
Chapter 12 Notes: Common Core Presentation Notes
Date: 3/25/2016
Author: Lezza Merrill
Chapter 12: CCSS
Kelli and Leigha
Standard 6: Point of View
How to assess how point of view or purpose shapes content and styles of a text
Goal: understand stories and text may vary based on who wrote it
Asked to explain how narrators see in different ways
Use point of view to comprehend in a deeper way
Activity: Point of View Analysis:
Essay describing POV of the narrator in a literary text and also describing how the POV is used.
INFORMATIONAL: Credibility:
Analyze POV: with credibility
Analyze how the author uses rhetoric to advance their point of view.
2 Reading Skills
-- ability to asses how POV shapes content
-- ability to understand purpose and how it shapes content
1st person: I, and My ( person write as if they were telling the story)
2nd person you, and your ( reader in the story)
3rd person He, and She (looking in on the events of the story, can see in the minds of all the characters)
Literary VS. Informational
Write to entertain VS. Written to answer a question, describe an event or person
How do the common core standards build to…
3 main skills
POV
Determining an author's main purpose
Comparing and contrasting
K- name author and illustrations
1- identify who is telling the story
2- emphasize on POV of character
3 distinguish own POV about characters
4 compare and contrast POV
5 describe traits among the characters
K - name author and illustrator
1- tell the difference between getting information from images and information
2 why the author wrote the text
3 tell the difference in point of view
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Reading Literature
K name author and illustrator, define roles
1 recognize who is tell the story and identify
2 identify characters and their point of view, what voice
3 recognize, your pov, plus characters and authors
4 compare and contrast, point of view, 1st person narration
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Reading Informatioal Text
K- name author and illustrator
1- identify information through text and image information
2 identify authors purpose
3 own point of view and authors
4 compare and contrast
5 different points of view
Activity:
Open Mind Portrait
Understand characters POV: stories, biographies, and or informational texts.
--Draw character, cut out their portrait, trace one or more head, draw or write about persons thoughts and feeling throughout the story.
Comparing and Contrasting:
Thinking hat:
-- Background knowledge
--Point of View
--Think about the different perspectives of the characters
Jigsaw Strategy
--small group-- to small group (expert group)--back to original group
Techonology Connection
Comic Strips; great way to separate points of view and perspectives
Connection to Other Standards:
Look Up
Literary
RL-Standard 1
RL-Standard 2
RL-Standard 3
RL-Standard 7
W- Standard 1
S/L-Standard 1
Informational
Reading Informational Standard 6
Reading Informational Standard 2
Reading informational Standard 7
Reading Informational Standard 8
Reading Informational Standard 9
Reading Informational Standard 10
W- Standard 1
S/L Standard 1
Week 11
Chapter 13 Notes: Common Core Presentation Notes
Date: 4/1/2016
Author: Lezza Merrill
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In CCR Reading Anchor Standard 7:
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Diverse Media and Formats
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Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse media and formats, including visually and quantitatively, as well as in words.
The ability to draw on information from multiple sources to address a question to solve a problem.
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Authentic, Credible Research in Reading and Writing
Diverse Media:
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Video
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Audio
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Multimedia Presentations
Reading Anchor Standard 7:
Two Reading Skills
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The ability to integrate content presented in diverse media and formats as well as print.
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The ability to evaluate content presented in diverse media and formats as well as print.
How do the common core standards build to CCR Anchor Standard 7?
Build the necessary to be able to integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse media and formats by the end of high school.
CCSS 7 For Reading Literature
K- With prompting, describe relationship between pictures and a story.
1- Use illustrations and details to describe characters, setting, or events.
2- Use information from illustrations and text to show understanding of characters, setting, or plot.
3- Explain how aspects of images in texts convey the words in a story.
4- Make connections between text of a story/drama and the visual/oral representation. Identify where each version reflects specific descriptions in the text.
5- Analyze how multimedia elements contribute to the meaning, tone, or beauty of a text.
CCSS 7 For Informational Text
K- Describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear.
( What person, place, thing, or idea does the illustration depict )
1- Use the illustrations and details in a text to describe the key details.
2- Explain how specific images contribute to and clarify a text.
( Diagrams, Graphs, Charts)
3- Use information gained from illustrations and words in a text to demonstrate understanding of the text.
4- Interpret information presented visually, orally, quantitatively and explain how the information contributes to an understanding of the text in which it appears.
(Charts, Graphs, Diagrams, time lines, animations, or interactive web elements on web pages)
5- Draw on information from multiple print or digital sources, demonstrating the ability to locate an answer to a question quickly or to solve a problem efficiently.
3 Main Skill Areas to Teach For Reading Standard 7
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Interpret illustrations and details in a story.
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Analyze visual and multimedia elements in a text.
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Use print and digital sources to find information.
Skills and Strategies For CCSS 7
-Reading standard 7 expects students to interpret visual elements of a text and compare/contrast text versions with versions that rely on auditory, visual, or multimedia modes of presentation.
-Students also learn to use multiple sources, both print and digital, to find information.
Literature:
Skills and Strategies for CCSS 7
K- Identify images and understand what a story is/ how it connects to an image.
1- Use story details and images to identify and understand characters, setting, and events.
2-Identify and explain a story’s characters, setting, and plot using images, printed words, or digital text.
3- Explain images in the story and how they contribute to the printed words. Explain how the images emphasize the mood, characters, or settings in a story.
4- Make connections between descriptions in texts or stage directions and the oral/visual representations of them. Recognize stage directions and descriptions in a text.
5- Recognize and analyze meaning, tone, and beauty in visual/multimedia elements of a text. Analyze how multimedia elements enhance meaning, tone, and beauty in graphic novels, fiction, folktales, myths, and poems.
Informational Text:
Skills and Strategies For CCSS 7
K- Identify images in a text.
Understand what informational text is
Identify what person, place, thing or idea in a text an image depicts
1- Identify details in a text
Identify key ideas in a text
Understand description in a text
Use images in a text to describe ideas in a text
Use details in a text to describe key ideas in a text
2- Identify images in an informational text
Know how to explain to demonstrate understanding
Define Contribute
Define Clarify
Explain how an image contributes to and clarifies a text
Informational Text:
Skills and Strategies For CCSS 7 (Cont.)
3- Recognize key events in a text
Gain information from a text’s images, such as maps and photographs
Use information from a text to explain where, when, why, and how key events in the text occur
Use information from the images to explain where, when. Why and how events occur in the text
Demonstrate understanding of the text using information gained from images and printed words
4- Define Interpret
Recognize the text features of nonfiction
Interpret information in text features presented orally
Interpret information in text features presented visually
Interpret information in text features presented quantitatively
Explain how information presented, orally, visually, and quantitatively adds to a better understanding of printed and digital text
5-Obtain information from print sources
Obtain information from digital sources
Demonstrate how to answer a text- based question
Locate the answer to a question quickly, drawing on information from multiple print, or digital sources
Identify problem- solving steps
Solve a problem efficiently, drawing on information from multiple print or digital sources
How Can We Teach Reading Standard 7 So Our Students Achieve?
Interpreting Images and Details in a Story:
--Write out a story for a wordless children’s book. (Individual or Group)
-Characters
-Setting
-Problem
-Attempt to resolve
-Resolution
Using Visuals and MultiMedia Elements in Varied Texts:
--Four Bookmarks.
-One: Students write about what they thought was most interesting in a text.
-Two: Students write about something they found confusing.
-Three: Students write about a word they think the whole class needs to discuss
-Four: Focuses on the student’s ability to use visuals while reading a text
How Can We Teach Reading Standard 7 So Our Students Achieve? (Cont.)
Using Print and Digital Sources to Find Information:
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Generate research questions about a theme or topic being studied
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Search for responses to the research question on the internet
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Analyze the information found online
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Choose a model to present the findings
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Share the results with the whole class
Technology Connection:
Integrating Other ELA Standards: Literature
Reading Literature Standard 1: Close reading of a narrative text.
Example: Have students closely analyze illustrations for information about the text.
Reading Literature Standard 2: Retelling a literary text and determine author’s purpose.
Example: Have students present examinations of written text elements.
Reading Literature Standard 3: Describing characters, setting, or events in a story or drama.
Example: Have students examine illustrations to describe characters, plot, or setting.
Reading Literature Standard 9: Comparing and contrasting experiences of characters.
Example: Ask students to compare a text and its multimedia version.
Integrating Other ELA Standards: Literature
Writing Standard 1: Writing an opinion about a text and supporting it with information from the text.
Example: When students are exposed to a text or multimedia elements, have them write about their opinions on the piece.
Speaking and Listening Standard 1: Engaging effectively in a range of collaborative, academic discussions.
Example: Engage students in whole or small group discussion on a text and its multimedia elements.
Language Standard 5: Vocabulary standard referring to the descriptive use of language.
Example: Encourage students to use descriptive adjectives and figurative language when describing multimedia elements.
Integrating Other ELA Standards: Informational Text
Reading Informational Text Standard 1 : Close Reading of Informational Text
Example: Reading Informational Text closely to understand historical, scientific or technical concepts.
Reading Informational Text Standard 2: Ability to summarize the main idea and supporting details
Example: Informational Text: ask students to use visual and multimedia elements of the text to help determine the main idea and supporting details.
Reading Informational Text Standard 5: Use of text features and text structures
Example: Explicitly teach students to use text features and structures to describe the individuals or concepts in historical, scientific or technical texts.
Reading Informational Text Standard 6: Point of View
Example: Examine the visual and multimedia elements to help identify or analyze the author’s point of view
Integrating Other ELA Standards: Informational Text (Cont.)
Writing Standard 7: Participating in brief shared or individual research projects that build background knowledge about a topic.
Example: Students are engaged in shared or individual research projects, teach them to use a variety of sources and integrate the information to build background knowledge
Writing Standard 8: Recalling Information from experiences or gathering information from sources to answer questions about a topic.
Example: Search for answers about a topic, encourage the use of variety of texts, both print and digital
Speaking and Listening Standard 1: Describes the expectation for students to engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions.
Example: Engage in collaborative academic conversations about informational texts, discuss the contributions made by the visuals and multimedia elements.
Language Standard 6: Vocabulary Standard, that refers to general academic and domain specific words and phrases.
Example: Teach the use of vocabulary when describing visuals and multimedia elements
Week 12
Chapter 14 Notes: Common Core Presentation Notes
Date: 4/4/2016
Author: Lezza Merrill
Standard 8
Formela arguementation or retoric
ability to speak or write in order to inform
abillity to delineate and evaluate:
specific terms, validity of reasoning and sufficiency of the evidence in reasoning
Arguement refers to the attempt to reaveal the truth
Persuasion attempt to change the readers mind by convinving them to feel a certain way
What makes a strong arguement?
logos, ethos, pathos
strong credibility and organization
Recognize valid arguements
Argue a point
Support claims with valid evidence
Recognize Plausible data
Draw conclusions from the arguements
K-5 - identify describe and explain the way an author supports the points in a text
K-2 focus on how the author supportst the points
Skilss and Strategies
Informational, magazines and digital texts
k- able to understand the word reason
1 identify reason
2 describe how reasons support what the author says
3 know the structure of a paragraph and recognize structures
4 fact and opinion, reasons and evidence
5 identify how the authors use of reasons and evidence to support evidence
Sentences and paragraph connections:
Paragraphs are set up by ideas
Identify Evidence to support Reasons:
Summarize texts, summarize key details
Integrating other ELA Standards:
Reading Standard One: close reading
Reading Standard Three: describe relationships and standards between people, ideas, and events
Rading Standard Six: point of view
Writing standard One: writing opinions
Listening Standard Three: listening to a speaker
Speaking 4 : reporting on a topic
Langauge 6: use of grade specific academic langauge and comain specific words.
ELL: Present orally, translated articles
struggling students: facts into graphic organizers
Advanced students: graphiz organizer, full paragraph
Week 13
Chapter 15 Notes: Common Core Presentation Notes
Date: 4/15/2016
Author: Lezza Merrill
Chapter 15
Anchor Standard Nine
Compare and Contrasting themes and topics
-students can understand topics, texts, and themes in deeper ways
Online, literature, informational, verbal
-Text by Text comparisons- author describes all of one thing, then whole of another thing
-Point by Point- author writes about one point from both A and B, then moves to second point from A and B
-Similarities and Differences- write about these between A and B
The ability to:
Analyze how two or more texts address similar or different themes to build knowledge or approach the authors point of view
-Characters, Setting, Themes, Poetic Styles
-May be asked to write a comparative analysis of two works by the same author or two stories the same basic plot.
Literature:
K and 1 compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in familiar stories
2 compare/contrast books from different authors/point of view
3 C and C, themes setting plots, different characters
4 C and C
5
Supporting SKills and Strategies
K and 1 identify and recognize/ compare and contrast; adventures and experiences in the book
2 compare authors and different cultures
3 theme setting and plot; series of books; series of unfortunate events
4 patterns of events in the stories, stories myths and traditional literature
5 genre; compare and contrast
Informational Text:
Arguement:
Kand 1- identify basic similarities and differences on same topics.
2 c and C most important facts on two text, same topic
3 C and C most important facts and key details
4 Integrate information from the two text in order to write about them
5 integrate some several texts on same topic
Ka nd1- same topic/similar
2 C and C most important points on the same topic
3 identify key details, and important points
4 write or speak about the subject to demonstrate knowledge
5 integrate information from two or more text to speak or write about
Other ELA Standards
Lit:
RLS 1- rad narrative text closely
RLS 2- retell as literary text, authors message
RLS 6 point of view
RLS 7 illustrations can establish mood tone and meaning
Informational
RIT 2 summarize main idea and details
RIT3 connections and relationships among people
Week 14
Chapter 16 Notes: Common Core Presentation Notes
Date: 4/22/2016
Author: Lezza Merrill
Text Complexity: Anchor Standard 10
What is text complexity?
read and comprehend complex literary and informational text independently and proficiently.
2 reading skills
literary reading complexity
Informational reading complexity
ambiguous uses of language using literary devices, complex connections between characters
data, presents vague concepts, students need to come to their own conclusions
Stair case of complexity
1st grade must be able to read grade appropriate text.
2-4 scaffolding to read the complex text
3-5 read the complex text independently
qualitative dimension: literal or figurative language
quantitative dimension: complexity of the words and the sentence structures.
reader and task considerations: abilities, experiences and motivation based on student interests
all needed to balance out
students ability to read the complex text, does not all develop in a linear fashion
additional support is needed for students that read well about and well below grade levels.
need scaffolding instruction to master the higher level of text complexity
Literary
k- active engagement of the students for purpose
1- prompting and support, poetry and pose
2-3 read and comprehend literature
4-5 read and comphrehend using scaffoling as needed at the high end of the range, then independently
Informational
k-engagement of the students for purpose
1- prompting and support, poetry and pose
2-3 read and comprehend literature, then independently
4-5 read and comphrehend using scaffoling as needed at the high end of the range, then independently
supporting skills and strategies
Literary Standards 1-4: choosing appropriate texts
Literary Standards 5-9: Elements of text, comprehension elements
Writing Standard
Speaking and Listening 1-2 collaborative discussion and read alouds
Speanking and listening 4-5
Informational Standards 1-4: choosing appropriate texts; close readings, summarizxing, describing connections
Informatiuonal Standards 5-9
Writing Standard
Speaking and Listening1&2
Speaking and Listening 4-6
Technology: Pearson Reading Mturity Metric, Text Compactor
2nd grade example: What can magnets do; tchart
4th grade example: Langston hughes poems; bubble maps