Teaching Nonfiction Reading Strategies

Teaching for Understanding in Nonfiction Presented by Angela Maiers Angelamaiers.com

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Reading and Writing

WHY? WHAT? HOW? Goals

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Make the Case Make the Promise!

Make The Case!

85-90% Reading

96% Web

94% Persuaded

73% 3F/P levels below fiction

15% 3 GRADE LEVELS below fiction

6% Struggled with decoding

(Boys = Girls)

Stead, 2007

AMAZING ACCESS VARIETY EXCITING INSTRUCTION

Make the Promise!

Whatcha Readin? Whatcha Writin?

Reasons

Books

Environment

Tools

Behaviors

Strategies

Does your brain engage differently? What “tools” work best? What behaviors are most helpful?

INSTRUCTION! Explicit Insruction

STUDY

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©Angela Maiers, 2008 Code Breaker Text User Meaning Maker Text Critic 21 st Century Reading Proficiency

Imagination

Curiosity

Self Awareness

Perseverance

Courage

Adaptability

The Basics!

Text User

Genre

Form

Format

Medium

STUDY

Imagination

Curiosity

Self Awareness

Perseverance

Courage

Adaptability

Thinking about Fiction

“ Life” Story “ Book” Story (THEME) Fiction = Stories of Life

The Orange

BIG IDEA (Whole text) Main Idea ( Section Level)

Description

Compare/Contrast

Cause and Effect

Chronology/Sequence

Procedural

Persuasive

Question/Answer

Problem/Solution

Captions Labels Graphics Images Font Color Layout TOC Glossary Headings

Conventions

Language

Syntax

Semantics

Ask Q

Schema

Inference

Det Imp

Visualize

Monitor

Synthesize

Purpose

Intention

Motivation

Bias

Viewpoint

Credibility

Reliability

Craft

Clearing Things Up!

Authors Purpose : To inform

(Reason for Writing) To Instruct

To entertain

To persuade

Decided By… Features Structures Organization Author’s View Point/Pt of View Position, attitude, beliefs about The topic they are writing about Text Form Tone Opinions Background/Bias Style Words Choose Perspective Author’s Credibility/Craft Identified By… Validity Objectivity Relevancy Types of Support 1. Topic of Writing : (What or Who Am I Writing About) 2. Audience (Who Do I want to Say Something To?) ©Angela Maiers, 2008

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The author’s purpose for writing is…

The tone of this passage is?

The writer believes that…

Why did the author probably write this passage?

Which sentence helps convey the mood of the text?

Read the passage, which passage best describes the author’s purpose ?

Which writer is most qualified to say . . .

The author thinks that . . .

The author is believable because…

The following assumptions about the author suggest…

The author uses sarcasm to….

The tone of this poem can best be described as…?

Why might the author recommend . . .

The purpose of this is to…?

What is this paragraph suggest that the authors’ believes that…?

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HOW?

Lesson Planning Content Text Time

STUDY

Imagination

Curiosity

Self Awareness

Perseverance

Courage

Adaptability

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Post It Notes

Story Boards

Notepad

Sketch Pad

Tags

Software (Inspiration, Kidspirtation)

Non Fiction Tool Box

Rereading

Chunking

Notetaking

RAN

SOAPS

Word Aware

Breadth and Depth

BIG IDEAS in Nonfiction

M ain Idea vs . B ig Idea

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Signal Words Point the Way… © Maiers, 2008 Text Structure & Signal Words Description/ Hierarchical List Cause & Effect Compare / Contrast Problem/ Solution Question & Answer Sequence For instance For example Furthermore Such as Also To begin with Most important Also In fact In addition And to illustrate Since Because This led to On account of Due to As a result of For this reason Consequentially Then…so… Therefore thus In like manner Likewise Similar to The difference between As opposed to After all However And yet But Nevertheless On the other hand One reason for the… A solution A problem Where The question is One answer is Recommendations include How When What Next Why Who How many The best estimate It could be that One may conclude Until Before After Finally Lastly First…last… Now…then On (date) At (time) First, second Meanwhile Not long after initially ©Maiers, 2008

Words for Comparison-4 th Grade Holt Mathematics Text

Similarity

Same

compare

Alike

Match

Equal

Together

Similar

Equivalent

Synonym

Comparative

Analogy

Equality

Even

Regular

©Angela Maiers, 2006 Difference Different Contrast Not Alike Mismatch Does not Match Unequal Separate Opposite Dissimilar Antonym Contrastable Inequality Uneven Irregular

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