Reading is to Success!

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 Non-fiction engaging kid-friendly short articles called “One-page wonders”  Explicit, step-by-step lessons  Real-life examples for students  Allows for efficient practice of comprehension and discussion strategies  Provides text set lessons on one topic, student choice, and the option to jigsaw content For example, the lesson can be on invasive species, but includes 5 different critters: Asian carp, Burmese pythons, killer bees, fire ants, and zebra mussels  Aligned to NJ Common Core State Standards

 Interesting and relevant to kids  Surprising, puzzling, funny, quirky, or weird  Invites the reader to visualize places, faces, and events  Feature people you can interested in  Are complex enough to justify time and thought  Offers background knowledge in your content area  Contains open-ended or debatable issues that invite lively discussions

 Monitor their comprehension  Visualize and make sensory images  Connect to their background knowledge  Ask questions of the text  Draw inferences  Determine what’s important  Synthesize and Summarize * The book contains 33 lessons and each strategy will be practiced repeatedly

See Handout-1 (pages in book) How Proficient Collaborators Think and Act Provides two charts& What Social Strategy Use Looks and Sounds Like

Each article provides the following: Title, Time needed, Introduction, Groupings, Materials Needed, Steps & Teaching Language, Article/One page Wonder, Web Support, and Tips & Variations * See Sample Handout-2 Pgs in book

 MRS Strategy : Turn & Talk  Grouping: Pairs and Whole Group  Article/One Page Wonder : Chicago Tribune, School’s Lesson Plan: No More Homework  Step One: Close Read, Annotate/Mark the text, Turn & Talk with partner or Try written turn-and-talks Differentiate according to student needs: Students can read independently, paired, in groups, or with teacher support Teacher circulates throughout the room. What do pairs talk about?  Step Two: Whole Group Sharing and Discussing

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