1. Text Analysis Susan Branch Donna Lanier Elizabeth Dobson
Central Elementary
December 10, 2014

2. What are the characteristics of each reading level?
Challenge
What are the characteristics of each reading level?
(five minutes) Ask the audience what do you think characteristics of reading levels are?

3. Why analyze text? Vowel teams vce Blends, Digraphs, Trigraphs
Content vocabulary
Sight words
(5 minutes)

4. ( five minutes) Insert a blank copy of spread sheet
Level
Book
Publisher
Fiction / NF
Sight words
vocabulary
Sentence structure
Suffixes
Blends digraph
vowels
Compound words / contractions
( five minutes) Insert a blank copy of spread sheet
Tell teachers to go to our web pages to download a template
It will be on the wiki later.

5. Analyze Text Teacher model Individual Work Time
(Donna – speaker, Susan - recorder) Presenter models how to analyze a text, reading through the text and writing down sight words, digraphs, vowel patterns, etc. Give teachers time to analyze text.

6. We analyzed the text. Now what do I do? www.teacherspayteachers.com
( five to ten minutes) (Susan) Presenters model how if you see a lot of the books in a certain level contain ee, ea look for materials to teach ee,ea.
Discuss use with Letterland. At Central, we teach Letterland in the order of the book the way that the program was designed and then find resources to differentiate out word work stations during guided reading group rotation.