5 Ways to Teach Students How to Find the Author’s Purpose
If you teach students about author's purpose, you probably already know about the acronym PIE (persuade, inform, entertain) and the related cutesy anchor charts. While those are good umbrella categories, the actual reasons that authors write nonfiction are often more nuanced. Textbook authors write to educate. Today's students are surrounded by information. As students get more advanced in their work with informational text, these five strategies teach them how to figure out why authors really write. 1. "Why did the author write this piece?" 2. Authors use different structures—sequence, problem and solution, compare and contrast—for different purposes. 3. Often when authors write, they're trying to get readers to feel a certain way. 4. It doesn't have to be said that writing and reading go hand in hand. 5. Author's purpose is often studied through the text as a whole, but authors have different reasons for writing within texts as well. Plus … 3 Ways to Teach Kids How to Identify Bias 1.
A Handy Guide to Ruffians, Rapscallions, Cads & More | Merriam-Webster
Definition: a mischievous and often morally corrupt person Examples: "The captain of Company L refused to recognize us; said we were deserters, and traitors, and scalawags; and when he drew rations for Company L from the commissary, he wouldn't give us any." - Jack London, The Road, 1907 "When times are good, the public generally prefers a scalawag. About the Word: Also spelled scallywag, this term may originally have referred to an animal of very little value. The origin of scalawag is unknown, but one theory suggests there's a link to the Scottish scoloc, a first-born son given to the Church to educate.
The Thinker Builder: Tracking Readers In a Sustainable, Simple, & Significant Way
For a long, long time, tracking the progress of my readers felt like a ride on a huge swinging pendulum. I was always looking for a method that would work for me, yet I always settled on something either too complicated and fussy, or too open-ended and random, or just plain meaningless, all of which created this Bermuda Triangle of short-lived attempts at tracking my students as readers. Where I write from today is where I landed after finally sliding my way off the pendulum, somewhere (I hope) near the middle of its swinging arc. With my last post in a loosely constructed series related to the literacy block, I want to show you how I track readers, and of course the thinking behind it. The Backstory When it comes to tracking the progress of readers during a reading group or one-to-one reading conference, I've been to both edges of the spectrum. It took me awhile to find the right balance between structure and flexibility. What's the Point? A Revelation AND, the notes are movable!
Challenging Advanced Readers in Upper Elementary School
You’ve got twenty-four kids in your class. Nineteen are reading on grade level, but five are above. What’s a teacher to do? That’s exactly what Jana wrote to the We Are Teachers HELPLINE! Jana, our helpline has heard you and they have spoken! 1. 2. 3. 4.
25 Reading Strategies That Work In Every Content Area
25 Reading Strategies That Work In Every Content Area Reading is reading. By understanding that letters make sounds, we can blend those sounds together to make whole sounds that symbolize meaning we can all exchange with one another. Without getting too Platonic about it all, reading doesn’t change simply because you’re reading a text from another content area. Science content can often by full of jargon, research citations, and odd text features. Social Studies content can be an interesting mix of itemized information, and traditional paragraphs/imagery. Literature? This all makes reading strategies somewhat content area specific. But if you’d like to start with a basic set of strategies, you could do worse than the elegant graphic above from wiki-teacher.com. Looking for related curricula ideas? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. To the above list, we’d add: 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. See Also: 25 Self-Guided Reading Responses For Fiction And Non-Fiction
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Preparing for, understanding and assessing reading can all be a challenge. Even great reading activities can be simple, however. Here are 9 ideas you can use in your reading program that require nothing more than some sticky notes. 1Questions While ReadingAsking questions while reading can be one of the greatest aids to understanding a passage, either at home or in class. And what could be easier than keeping a few sticky notes in strategic places in your classroom?
Close Reading Toolbox Freebie! | The TpT Blog
This post originally appeared on the blog CreateTeachShare. Well, my school year has barely ended, and call me crazy, because I am already planning and creating for next year!! I have a list a mile long of new ideas that I can’t wait to try out for next year. My first one?!?! Close Reading Toolboxes!! Close Reading has become a huge reading practice in my classroom, and has helped my students to get through those challenging informational texts. While cleaning out my cupboards recently, I came across these photo cases that I never ended up using for anything. These photo boxes come in a larger plastic box, which holds six individual photo boxes. I created two labels for the outside of the larger plastic box, just to keep it fancy. Then I created a label to put on each of the individual plastic boxes… On the inside cover of each box, I created a reference sheet for the different tools that each box contains. What Goes in Each Box?!?! Putting it All Together!! And….TA-DA!!!
Kom snabbt igång med digital teknik genom appen Plickers
Jag blev ombedd av Skolvärlden (nr 6, 2016) att tipsa om en app. Mitt val föll på Plickers för att det är enkelt att lära sig för dig som pedagog och kräver endast att man har en digital enhet samt en webbläsare och passar bra för många klassrum där man inte har kommit så långt med digitala enheter eller man inte vill låta eleverna använda egna enheter. Dessutom behöver inte eleverna logga in som tar extra tid. Eleverna använder istället färdiga kort som du skriver ut via hemsidan och det är dessa kort som du sedan scannar av med din enhet. Skapa konto och kort För att skapa ett gratiskonto loggar du som lärare in på www.plickers.com och väl där inne skapar du klasslistor i fliken Classes och +Add new class. Skapa frågor och mappar Nu är det dags att skapa frågor. Ladda ner appen och du är igång Nu är det snart dags att testa responsverktyget med eleverna. Nyttan för mig som pedagog film 1 film 2 film 3 Vad kan man använda Plickers till? Du kan använda Plickers till väldigt många olika saker.
Comprehension domains with icons and thinking maps.
pgrant Reading Logs | Increase your student's reading comprehension! Icons of Depth & Complexity, Thinking Maps, Graphic Organizers This 21 page Language Arts file allows students to reflect upon their nightly reading and write about it in a meaningful way. nouns graciela Using post-its to improve reading comprehension.I love this activity for sharing thinking with older students, and building their level of metacognition in reading comprehension! Spend jannie Smartboard friendly tool for solving word problems. Scoot millie "Sunni Brown: Doodlers, Unite!" Blooms annette This file has 8"-11" of kid friendly versions of thinking maps. Journals
