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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?

  1. The clear, easy, written or spoken expression of ideas

  2. 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?

  1. The growth of a person’s stock of known words and meanings

  2. 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

  • Semantic Maps

  • Semantic Feature Analysis

  •  

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:

  1. Students benefit from using comprehension strategies and routines

  2. Having opportunities to read, write, and talk matters

  3. Knowledge help comprehension by providing a starting point

 

                Practical Ideas for Teaching Reading Comprehension/ CCSS

  • Text structures and strategies

  • 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

 

  • What does ccr reading anchor standard one mean?

    • Reading Closely:

      • Close Reading: Reading “like” a detective.

        • Method used by college level english classes, literary analysis:

          • observe carefully, look for facts and details, discover and interpret.

          • analyze evidence, look for claims, interpret observations and make inferences.

    • Making Logical Inferences:

      • ALWAYS making inferences, look for clues in the text

        • building of background knowledge

    • Citing Textual Evidence:

      • “Citing text as the source of evidence involves being able to extract word verbatim to prove a point.”

        • Main Ideas

          • Details

  • How do the ccss build to ccr reading anchor standard one?

    • k-2 emphasis on learning to ask and answer questions

    • 3 ask and answer questions, refer to text to support answers

    • 4 refer to text and draw inferences

    • 5 emphasis shift; quoting text for asking and answering questions

    • 6-12

      • Identifying key details

      • asking and answering questions

      • making logical inferences

      • citing textual evidence

  • What literacy skills and strategies support common core reading standard one?

    • Close Reading:

      • Read Alouds

      • Shared Reading

    • Kindergarten: given prompting and support throughout the year

    • 1st grade prompting and support as needed - 3rd grade

    • Choose:

      • stories

      • dramas

      • poetry

        • ALL with

          • rich language

          • varied sentence structures

          • complex ideas

  • how can we teach reading standard one to ensure that our students achieve?

    • Identifying Key Details

      • k-5

        • key details

          • Characters

          • Setting

          • Problem

          • Resolution

    • Asking and Answering Questions:

      • Thick and Thin questions

        • Thin: literal questions

        • Think: Inferencing questions

    • Making Inferences

    • Citing Textual Evidence

    • Understanding Text

    • Technology Connections to Standard 1

  • How can we integrate other ela standards with reading standard one?

    • Integrating other ela standards with reading literature standard one

    • Integrating other ela standards with reading informational text standard one

 

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.

SKILLS:

  1. The Ability to Determine the Central Idea of Theme of a text

  2. The Ability to Analyze the Development of Ideas or Themes in a Text

  3. 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

  1. Retelling and Recounting (Early grades)

  2. Determining themes in literary text (with a focus on fable and folk tales in grades 2 and 3)

  3. Determining main ideas and key details in informational texts (4th and 5th grades

  4. 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

  • Diction: the way a word is pronounced or an author's word choice and style of expression

  • The choice of device that the author uses when writing the text creates an effect that will relate to the meaning of the text.

  • Diction Devices: Students analyze text for diction devices and try to understand why the author chose to put the words in the text.

  • Denotation: technical meanings

  • Connotation: how to interpret words

  • Fig. Lang. : simile, metaphor, alliteration, personification

Informational Texts:

  • Must understand language being used in a content area in order to comprehend text on the matter

  • Symbols

  • Key terms

  • Domain Specific Vocabulary

5 College Reading Skills

  • Ability to interpret word and phrases

  • Ability to determine the technical meanings

  • Ability to determine the Connotative meanings

  • Ability to determine Fig. Language.

  • 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

5-

 

Differentiation: Content, Process and Product

  • ELL- more pictures, easier texts, give texts in their language. may give english translation

  • Struggling:  group with ELL if at same level, more pictures, easier texts, help comprehend, teacher guidance.

  • 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

  • segment and build with morphemes

  • use affixes and root meaning

  • use morphemes to improve spelling

  • segment compound words and combine to create words and compound words

  • 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

  • Book: Cover, Front page table of context, organized text, glossary, indes

  • Organization; arrangement of ideas and relationships; text comprehension support by organization; knowledge about information

Narrative

  • Description: pattern of characteristics, topics, persons, events and objects.

  • Sequence: pattern of order placement

  • Compare and contrast:

  • Cause and Effect:

  • Problem and Solution:

 

Informational:

  • 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

5

 

3 main skills

 

Ability to use text features

Identify features within literary text

Identify features within informational text

 

Skills

 

Literary

 K-Poems and storybooks,

  1. Fiction and informational texts

  2. Beginning middle and end

  3. Chapters, scene and stanza

  4. Poems, drama, elements of stories

  5. 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

4

5

 

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

5

 

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

 

  • In CCR Reading Anchor Standard 7:

  • Diverse Media and Formats

  • 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.

  • Authentic, Credible Research in Reading and Writing

Diverse Media:

  • Video

  • Audio

  • Multimedia Presentations

 

Reading Anchor Standard 7:

Two Reading Skills

 

  1. The ability to integrate content presented in diverse media and formats as well as print.

  1. 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

 

  1. Interpret illustrations and details in a story.

 

  1. Analyze visual and multimedia elements in a text.

 

  1. 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:

  1. Generate research questions about a theme or topic being studied

  2. Search for responses to the research question on the internet

  3. Analyze the information found online

  4. Choose a model to present the findings

  5. Share the results with the whole class

 

Technology Connection:

http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/student-interactives/fact-fragment-frenzy-30013.html?tab=1#tabs

 

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

 

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