DESIGNING INSTRUCTION THAT LEADS TO UNDERSTANDING Thinking through text

Essential Question How can I teach for understanding?

Learning goals By the end of the two days, participants will:

Understand the thinking strategies

Understand the “Before, During, After” framework

Know instructional moves Annotating text Building anchor charts Using graphic organizers Talking/discourse Writing/reflecting

Triple Track Agenda Modeling  thinking strategies  workshop  co-teaching

Read Aloud: Cris Tovani Author of I Read It, But I Don’t Get It and Do I Really Have to Teach Reading? And high school classroom teacher

Penny Kittle

Trios Find two people Introduce yourselves Explore ideas

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A comprehension quiz…. It is very important that you learn about traxoline. Traxoline is a new form of zionter. It is montilled in Ceristanna. The Ceristannians gristeriate large amounts of fevon and then bracter it to quasel traxoline. Traxoline may well be one of our must lukized snezlaus in the future because of our zionter lescelidge. What is a traxoline? Where is traxoline montilled? How is traxoline quaselled? Why is it important to know about traxoline?

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Five components of reading Phonemic awareness Phonics Vocabulary Fluency Comprehension

Metacognition

Reading What does it mean to read? What does thinking while reading look/sound like? What do you do when you read?

Last Words The suicide note was brief. To my friend, my lover, my wife, Don’t blame yourself. None of them did.

Invitation Read “Conversation Piece” While reading, annotate the text Show the tracks of your thinking

What did you do to make sense of this text?

Learning from being metacognition What does it mean to read? What does thinking while reading look/sound like?

Break time

What are the thinking strategies that proficient readers use?

But, first, what is a strategy? “Intentional plans that enable readers to construct meaning.” -- Cris Tovani Mental moves that readers use to understand what they are reading  Before  During  After Instructional moves --Smoky Daniels

Strategies of proficient readers

Monitor for understanding

Ask questions

Activate, Utilize, Build Background Knowledge

Draw inferences

Determine Importance

Create sensory images…Visualize

and synthesize

Label our strategies Questions Visualizing Synthesizing Background knowledge Monitoring Inferring Determining importance

Before, During, After Before: getting students ready to read During: having students hold their thinking while reading After: extending or deepening their thinking

Workshop #1: Focus reading strategies:  Activating background knowledge  Making connections Demonstration lesson Application

Activating background knowledge Read and annotate text 2 in the packet.

Background knowlege

Background Knowledge + Making Connections

Making connections Text-to-self Text-to-text Text-to-world

Demonstration lesson

If the eyes are the window to our souls, what do her eyes tell us?

During Using the graphic organizer to hold your thinking.

After With two colleagues  Share your charting of your thinking  Answer the guiding question, using your notes, the poem, and the photo:  If the eyes are the window to our souls, what do her eyes tell us?

Application Here’s what we modeled:  An interesting text  A purpose for reading it  Before (activating BK)  During (graphic organizer)  After (in trios answer the essential question) How might you apply this strategy?  What text?  What purpose?  Before?  During?  After? Resources on the wiki: Day 1: Activating Schema and Making Connections

DEBRIEF

Workshop 2 Focus strategies:  Determining importance  Asking questions Text:  Non-fiction Before  Word Splash During  Highlight and annotate After  Save the Last Word for Me

Focus thinking strategies: Determining Importance/Asking questions Determining importance  Id key ideas  Distinguish among important, interesting, and unimportant details  Consider what’s important given the purpose

Asking questions  Before reading to set purpose  During reading to maintain interest  A variety of questions  Literal  Inferential  Applied

Demonstration Lesson Before reading:  Word splash  Generate a question or two During reading  Highlight the text when you find possible answers to your questions  If more questions pop up, list them. After reading: Save the Last Word for Me

Word Splash

DURING READING Highlight the text when you find possible answers to your questions. If more questions pop up, list them.

AFTER READING SAVE THE LAST WORD FOR ME  Select a significant quote  Read it but do not explain it  The rest of the group discusses your quote (about 3 minutes)  You get the last word: why did you select it? What are you thinking now? Move on to the next person.

Application How can you teach students to determine importance? Use questions in an active manner? Before/during/after framework Check out the wiki: Workshop – Determining Importance and Asking Questions

KWL KNOW WONDER LEARN

Investigate the wiki Check out the wiki Post on the wiki:  Choose one of the strategies and explain how it supported your thinking.  How will that strategy support your students as thinkers? Homework: Bring a text that you will be teaching.

reflecting

Homework Bring some kind of text you might ask your students to read

Workshop #3 Focus strategies:  Visualizing  Inferring Text:  Poem Before During After

Visualizing or Using Sensory Images

Drawing inferences Question/Text + Background Knowledge Inferences

Think Aloud I’m playing war With six of my friends, Using sticks for guns Arguing over who’s dead Who’s only wounded Who can die the best When the door opens And Grandpa walks out Wearing no shirt. We see the scar On his back. He got it In a real war. Nobody says anything But after he passes by We start a different game. The Scar by Ralph Fletcher

During Reading Pair up:  With a partner read “The Custodian”  Decide who is Person A and who is Person B  Person A think aloud, Person B records visualizations and inferences

After reading Join another pair Discuss your visualizations/inferences On the wiki, reflect on what you learned

Checking out the wiki What’s a question about reading that you would like answered? Search the wiki to find an answer to the question. Jot down insights and resources. Be prepared to share.

Your turn