4. Haiku as a Text Form
• Line 1: 5 syllables
• Line 2: 7 syllables
• Line 3: 5 syllables
5. Haiku for winter
Frosty winter’s day
Bare white limbs on creaking trees
Imperfection, grace
What are the features of haiku as a text form?
6. Twitter as a Text Form
• How would you describe the features &
conventions of a tweet?
• How does a tweet differ in purpose from other
text forms such as an email or blog post?
7. Chris Hadfield Tweet from Space
• Original tweet: “Mining town in northern
China – the open pits gleam with blue from
space”
• As haiku poem:
Northern China mines (5)
Open pits gleam blue from space (7)
Rich reserves of ore (5)
10. Your Task
• Pic Collage app on iPads
• Select a Chris Hadfield tweet from space
(handout)
– Rewrite it to fit the haiku form (5/7/5)
– Conduct any research needed to clarify the tweet
– Using Pic Collage:
• Select appropriate online images and arrange as a collage
• Select a background
• Type the haiku into a text box
• Save to photos
11. Ontario Curriculum
• How does this poetry/media activity address
specific expectations in the Ontario
Curriculum: Language?
– Consider more than one strand
• Media Studies
• Writing
• Reading
• What other subject areas are also addressed?
12. School Context
• If I were to replicate the PicCollage activity in a
Junior classroom, what further supports or
steps would I have to consider?
15. Comprehension Strategies
• Activating prior knowledge
• Determining a purpose for reading
• Making connections: text-to-self; text-to-text;
text-to-world
• Predicting
• Visualizing
• Questioning
• Drawing inferences
• Evaluating
16. Guide to Effective Instruction: Reading
• Focus on Comprehension Strategies
– pp. 25-27 (link is on Sakai week 5)
• Read the handout (or view online pp. 25-27)
carefully to understand each comprehension
strategy. Discuss any areas of confusion at
your table
• Your table will participate in an online quiz in
15 minutes!!
18. Using Portraits, Comic Books, and
Graphic Novels to Teach Inferencing
• See article on Sakai Week 5:
– “Using Comics and Graphic Novels in the
Classroom”
20. Portrait
• What do you see? (observe)
• What can you conclude from what you see?
(infer)
• What is your evidence to back up that
inference? (conclusion)
21.
22. Next Week
• Professional Learning Conversation
– Professional Reading
Styslinger, M, Walker, N., & Lenker, T. (2014).
Beyond the sticky note and Venn diagram:
Comprehension strategies for 21st century schools.
Voices from the Middle, 22(2), 13-20.
Editor's Notes
Make point that reading can be difficult, and can affect self-esteem. Also a barrier to learning in non-language arts areas (e.g. math problem-solving)
Ada: “They just didn’t wait for me.”
Lit. Council: “We didn’t they tell me this?!”
