Susan L. Brooks MCTE Convention Duluth, Minnesota April 3, 2014
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass (1845) Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat: Address to Parliament on May 13th, 1940 by Winston Churchill (1940) Speech to the Second Virginia Convention by Patrick Henry (1775) Farewell Address by George Washington (1796) Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln (1863) Common Sense by Thomas Paine (1776) Walden by Henry David Thoreau (1854) Society and Solitude by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1857) The Fallacy of Success by G. K. Chesterton (1909) From http://www.corestandards.org/ela- Literacy/standard- 10- range- quality- complexity/texts- illustrating- the- complexity- quality- range- of- student- reading- 6-12/ S.L.Brooks- - MCTE 2014 3
Topics Timeliness Uneven quality Specialization Relevance S.L.Brooks- - MCTE 2014 4
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WHY EXPOSITORY TEXTS? Preferred by male readers (Summers 2012) Can support struggling readers (Ambe, 2007) Provides models for academic writing (Beck, et al 2013) Prepares for college and career demands (Knudson, et al 2008) S.L.Brooks- - MCTE 2014 7
Individual Reading Book Groups By topic By book By genre S.L.Brooks- - MCTE 2014 8
Response Ideas Question Set FAQ Page Pro/Con Author interview Wiki Museum exhibit Bag of artifacts S.L.Brooks- - MCTE 2014 9
SOURCES FYE Catalogs Public Library Sites Blogs AWARDS AND BOOKLISTS Orbis Pictus Award Sibert Medal Quick Picks S.L.Brooks- - MCTE 2014 10
Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate by Rose George Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion- Dollar Trash Trade by Adam Minter Banana: The Fate of the Fruit Who Changed the World by Dan Koeppel Drive: The Surprising Truth about What Motivates Us by Daniel Pink Potato City by Sue Leaf Overdressed: The Shockingly High Price of Cheap Fashion by Elizabeth L. Cline S.L.Brooks- - MCTE 2014 11
Background - - Setting/Situation - - Author Biography - - Connection to Real Life Author s Voice Parallel Texts S.L.Brooks- - MCTE 2014 12
Background Lecture vs. Reading Picture Books Primary Sources Newspaper Articles S.L.Brooks- - MCTE 2014 13
Comprehension Processes of Proficient Readers Making connections to prior knowledge Generating questions Creating mental images Making inferences Determining importance Synthesizing Monitoring Reading and applying fix- up strategies Buehl (2009, p. 5) S.L.Brooks- - MCTE 2014 14
Buehl s Graphic Organizers: - - Fact Pyramid - - Pyramid Diagram - - Concept/Definition Map Automatic Categories Text Coding Structured Notes Student- led Lectures Class Collection of Info Wikipedia Analysis Personal Notebooks Generating Questions S.L.Brooks- - MCTE 2014 15
TEXT CODING QUESTION SETS R Reminds me of... V I can Visualize this... E This brings up these Emotions... Q I have a Question about this... I This causes me to infer...? I don t understand this...! This is interesting (Buehl, p. 180) Definition What is...? Where does... fit? What group does... belong to? Characteristics How would I describe...? What does... look like? What are its parts? Examples What is a good example of...? What are similar examples that share attributes but differ in some way? Experience What experience have I had with...? What can I Imagine about...? Landsberger- - http://www.studygs.net/ index.htm S.L.Brooks- - MCTE 2014 16
Basic Writer Biographies Picture Book Database Library of Congress New York Times S.L.Brooks- - MCTE 2014 17
Mentor Texts Peer Revision S.L.Brooks- - MCTE 2014 18
Test Readers for Persuasive Writing How do you know this is a persuasive piece? Underline a sentence that explains the main idea Find five places where the author uses signal words for persuasive writing Which of the main points were most persuasive to you? S.L.Brooks- - MCTE 2014 19
Mentor Text Dropbox 501 Writing Prompts Pro/Con Resources Using text structures and key words Persuasive Writing Webquest S.L.Brooks- - MCTE 2014 20
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Ambe, E. (2007). Inviting reluctant adolescent readers into the literacy club: Some comprehension strategies to tutor individuals or small groups of reluctant readers. 50.8.2 632-639. Beck, S., Llosa, L., and T. Fredrick. (2013). The challenges of writing exposition: Lessons from ELL and non- ELL high school students. Reading and Writing Quarterly. 29:4 358-380. Buehl, D. (2009). Classroom strategies for interactive learning. Newark, DE: International Reading Association. Knudson, R., Zitzer- Comfort, C., Quirk, M. and Pia Alexander. (). The California State University Early Assessment Program. The Clearing House, Volume 81, No. 5 May/June 2008 pp. 227-231. Summers, K. (2013). Adult reading habits and preferences in relation to gender differences. Reference & User Services Quarterly 52: 3. 243-49. S.L.Brooks- - MCTE 2014 22