Concept English APA Meeting January 24, 2018 Trailing the Text* Concept English APA Meeting January 24, 2018 *Modified by Flaherty

Mya She is 6 years old.

Engagement What did you do today Mya? Nothing Hi Mya. I need some help. When you were reading today, did you come across any new words like the ones here? (Select page in her book) A dialogue will ensue as she goes back and forth between pictures and words. The questions will lead her to show you what she learned. Engagement

RI.6.3 Analyze in detail how a key individual, event, or idea is introduced, illustrated, and elaborated in a text (e.g., through examples and anecdotes)

How would you interpret this photograph? List details: people places things Explain… Activity 1 How would you interpret this photograph? DOK 3 What scaffolding do you need to do? Interpretation – the action of explaining the meaning

Activity 2 What conclusions can you draw about the significance of “ordinary” people who were at the March? DOK 3

Explanation, examples, research Trailing the Text Explanation, examples, research

“ Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.  Rainer Maria Rilke

How would you interpret this photograph? List details: people places things Explain… Activity 1 How would you interpret this photograph? DOK 3 What scaffolding do you need to do? Interpretation – the action of explaining the meaning

Talking fuels thinking Reading is thinking Thinking is exposed by writing The work of Clay and Fountas & Pinnell

Modified * Trailing the Text During reading to expose the process, not a test at the end after the reading is over. Modified * Trailing the Text Flaherty Modified: Can be used on a section of text or a whole text. Key is to determine a focus. i.e. a theme, key word, or concept.

RI.6.3 Analyze in detail how a key individual, event, or idea is introduced, illustrated, and elaborated in a text (e.g., through examples and anecdotes)

Taxonomies Bloom & Webb Standards Taxonomies Bloom & Webb Curriculum Content Synthesis

Reading Writing Reciprocity

Connections Oral language precedes written language Stop-N-Think Writing is problem solving and often meaning making Trailing the Text Focus on the questions and evidence for more rigor Connections

73 times Analysis Bloom – thinking to answer. Understanding to answer

Scaffolding Questions What is rigor?" If you do any research on rigor, you will find that rigor does not mean difficulty. Instead rigor means the level of mental processing that must occur to answer a question, perform a task or generate a product. DOK questions offer insight into scaffolding needs and differentiation.

Using the strategy with RIGOR Adding page #s with a REQUIRED amount of information under the evidence. On state tests answering the question (Part A) is not enough you need the information the evidence (Part B)

Activity 2 What conclusions can you draw about the significance of “ordinary” people who were at the March? DOK 3

Type of questions is Key

Writing Twice Brain to organizer Organizer to page Re-assembly of the evidence is problem-solving and meaning making.

If you think better, you write better, you test better, and yes, read better.