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ARA Presentation 2015: Stop Reading Fast
This document discusses strategies for close reading texts. It introduces the idea of using "signposts" like contrasts, aha moments, or recurring words or images to analyze passages more deeply. Several specific close reading strategies are described, such as using "somebody wanted but so" to analyze characters' motivations or "syntax surgery" to diagram sentences. The document advocates re-reading texts and asking questions to challenge initial understandings. Teachers are encouraged to use scaffolds to make invisible thinking visible and help students engage critically with texts.
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- 1. Stop ReadingFast ...startthinkingmore Tammy Gillmore BatesvilleHigh/Lyon College ARA Publications Chair
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- 3. Instructions v Instruction Giving directions, orders,steps to follow... Providing insight for how to do something...
- 4. This week inEnglish12... • Bell Work • Video 1 - Channel 1 • Video 2 - FoxNews • Video 3 - FoxNews • What’s wrong with this activity? • ? • ?
- 5. CloseReading-Question for AnneFrank How would you feel if you had to hide in a closet with little food for a long time? How does Anne feel about hiding in the attic, and where are the passages that provide the evidence? •BUT what about connections? • ACT Aspire • Reading = just based on the text • Writing = not text/based on background knowledge • SO?
- 6. WhatisCloseReading? • Works witha short passage. • Focus is intense • Will extend from the passage itself to other parts of the text. • Involves a great deal of exploratory discussion. • Requires re-reading. • Allows questioning of the text...especially in nonfiction texts.
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- 8. SignPosts Contrasts and Contradiction • Behaviorthat contradicts previous behavior. • Why would the character feel/act this way?
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- 10. SignPosts Aha Moment • Character’srealization of something that SHIFTS his action or understanding. • How might this change things?
- 11. SignPosts Tough Questions • Revealsinner struggle. • About what does this question make me wonder?
- 12. SignPosts Words of theWiser • Advice/insight of wiser character about life. • What’s the life lesson and how might it affect the character?
- 13. SignPosts Again and Again •Events, images, words that recur. • Why might the author bring this up again and again?
- 14. SignPosts Memory Moment • Flashbacks •Why might this memory be important?
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- 17. 3 BIGQuestions 1.What surprisedme? 2.What did the author think I already knew? 3.What challenged, changed, or confirmed me? Ask these questions when notice a Signpost.
- 18. Signposts Contrasts and Contradictions •Sharp contrast • Difference between 2 or more elements
- 19. Signposts Extreme or AbsoluteLanguage • Language that allows no compromise • All, always • OR seems to exaggerate • Everyone...
- 20. Signposts Numbers and Stats •Specific quantities • OR writer is vague, imprecise about numbers
- 21. Signposts Quoted Words • Expertopinions or conclusions
- 22. Signposts Word Gaps • Unfamiliarvocabulary
- 23. Strategies The scaffolds thatmake the invisible thinking process visible. - p. 181
- 24. Strategies Before Reading Possible Sentences •Teacher chooses words from the text; students create sentences.
- 25. Strategies Before Reading KWL 2.0 •Changed Column 2 to ask, “What do you want to know about the topics in Column 1?”
- 26. Strategies During Reading Somebody WantedBut So • Somebody in the text • What did that Somebody want? • But what happened? • So what was the outcome? See sample on page 205
- 27. Strategies During Reading Syntax Surgery •Must be able to write/draw on text. • Connect parts of the text.
- 28. Strategies During Reading Sketch toStretch • Transmediation: changing from one medium to another.
- 29. Strategies After Reading Genre Reformulation •Also known as Story Recycling • Example: turn the expository text into a rap song
- 30. Strategies After Reading Poster Write responsesto text on the paper.
- 31. ColdRead Turn and Chat WhichQuestion, Signpost, Strategy would you suggest?
- 32. ColdRead Turn and Chat Whatif we paired this text with “Jack and Jill”?
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- 34. ForMoreInformation: • Gillmorepd.wikispaces.com • tammy.gillmore@gmail.com •tammy@arareading.org
- 35. Resources Notice and Note:Strategies for Close Reading Resources at Heinemann TeachersPayTeachers Reading Nonfiction: Notice and Note Stances, Signposts, and Strategies Resources at Heinemann