Real Rigor: Textbooks, print and nonprint texts Dr. Diane Kern URI EDC 448 Session 3 Dr. Diane Kern URI EDC 448 Session 3

What we’ll do today…  Evaluate textbooks; try out the Fry readability formulas with our textbooks  Discuss the place of e-texts (nonprint texts) and trade books in the secondary school classroom  Consider your guiding principles for choosing print and nonprint texts to support/enhance your instruction  Booktasting  Evaluate textbooks; try out the Fry readability formulas with our textbooks  Discuss the place of e-texts (nonprint texts) and trade books in the secondary school classroom  Consider your guiding principles for choosing print and nonprint texts to support/enhance your instruction  Booktasting

Admit Slip  Think about your note taking for Tovani’s Chapters 1, 2, and 4.  Which note taking ‘tool’ did you use?  What worked? What didn’t work?  How might you use this or adapt this in your own teaching?  Think about your note taking for Tovani’s Chapters 1, 2, and 4.  Which note taking ‘tool’ did you use?  What worked? What didn’t work?  How might you use this or adapt this in your own teaching?

Assessing our texts  Informal Reading Inventory  Content Area Reading Inventory  Cloze assessments  Readability formulas Try one out…the Fry Readability formula  Informal Reading Inventory  Content Area Reading Inventory  Cloze assessments  Readability formulas Try one out…the Fry Readability formula

Practical implications for our classrooms…  Know our texts, our guiding principles  Make knowledgeable, quality choices of text material  Use assessment to inform instruction  Make informed text book adoptions  Use text book materials “strategically” to bring our students and texts together (not apart!)  Know our texts, our guiding principles  Make knowledgeable, quality choices of text material  Use assessment to inform instruction  Make informed text book adoptions  Use text book materials “strategically” to bring our students and texts together (not apart!)

Teaching reading with texts  E-texts (online vs. offline)  Tradebooks  Text books READER + TEXT + STRATEGIES = MEANING  Before reading  During Reading  After Reading…link to lesson plan  E-texts (online vs. offline)  Tradebooks  Text books READER + TEXT + STRATEGIES = MEANING  Before reading  During Reading  After Reading…link to lesson plan

Know our guiding principles when selecting texts  Personal criteria  Multicultural literature criteria  Evaluating websites/etexts  Personal criteria  Multicultural literature criteria  Evaluating websites/etexts

Exit Slip  Booktasting!  “Taste” a variety of tradebooks or surf the web for e-texts that meet YOUR criteria for use in your classroom.  Share your criteria with colleagues  Booktasting!  “Taste” a variety of tradebooks or surf the web for e-texts that meet YOUR criteria for use in your classroom.  Share your criteria with colleagues