Nonfiction Text Essential to Surviving

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Nonfiction TextEssential to Surviving
Thriving in Our Informational World
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Text Comprehension

• Goals of Instruction
• Teach all students to think, read write
• To apply the meaning gained from text
  responsibility
• Teach students procedures that permit them
  greater success with less effort
• How does Teaching Nonfiction Text differ from
  Fiction?
• Turn Talk to your neighbor!

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• WHAT
• IF
• THE HOKEY POKEY
• IS
• WHAT ITS ALL ABOUT?
• Marzanos HYS Similarities Differences using
  Metaphors

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PUT YOUR LEFT FOOT IN

• Sixty Second Quick List
• A Fluency Activity that allows you to get your
  thoughts together very quickly
• List everything you have read
• or written over the last week.

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PUT YOUR LEFT FOOT IN

• Sixty Second Quick List
• A Fluency Activity that allows you to get your
  thoughts together very quickly
• List everything you have read
• or written over the last week.
• Sort Your List By Nonfiction or Fiction!
• What is Nonfiction? What is Fiction?
• How does this personal knowledge
• affect or guide your instruction? Hmmmmmm
• Marzanos Analogies - Similarities Differences!

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Put Your Right Foot In

• Piaget
• Children must have background knowledge to make
  connections.
• (Schema)

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Vygotsky Children must be engaged in talk with
one another. They dont have lots of
connections. Talking allows you to make
connections.
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• Smith
• Children must observe it, experience it, and hear
  it (language).
• I do. You watch.
• (Modeling, Explaining Why, How, When)
• I do. You help.
• (Guiding practice in small groups/pairs)
• (Teacher provides feedback as needed)
• You do. I watch.
• (Practicing Independently)
• You do. I help.
• (Scaffolding)

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Think about your teaching methods

• How does your teaching strategies connect to
  these theorists
• Turn talk with your neighbor
• about your thinking.
• Right Brain Right Foot? Any Connection?

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Gradual Release of Responsibility

• Teacher Modeling

Student Responsibility

• Guided Practice

• Independent Practice

Teacher Support

• Application

I do, you watch I do, you help You do. I
watch You do, I help
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Why Immerse Them In Nonfiction?

• The way your brain takes in and deals with
  information is formed by age 8.
• If all we teach children is the organizational
  strategies for Fictional Stories in ages 0 8,
  they will automatically try to organize
  Nonfiction Text by the Story Elements Plot,
  Problem, Setting, Resolution, Characters, and
  Beginning, Middle, End.
• How do you think the students in your classroom
  are programmed to organize information?
• Turn and talk about it

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Put Your Left Hand In
Model and Use non-fiction text features Comprehen
sion Strategies Organize Respond to text Big
Idea Facts Information Understanding
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How to Immerse Them in NonfictionRead Look at
Informational Text
Read Aloud, Discussions, Shared Reading,
Strategy-based Mini-lessons all allow teachers
to model develop concepts about nonfiction
text for students.
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Read to Understand Organize Informational Text

• Guided Reading, Shared Reading, Strategy-based
  Mini-lessons on Nonfiction Text allow teachers to
  teach students how to organize and understand the
  Big Idea in Nonfiction Text.

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The BIG IDEA or Global Concept
Text or Access Features help the Reader
Organize FACTS INFORMATION In order to
increase their
Understanding of the BIG IDEA
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Nonfiction Text Access FeaturesOrganize
information or facts and guide the Reader

• General

• Specific

• TOC Table of Contents
• Headings
• Subheadings
• Index

• Bullets
• Photos
• Sidebars
• Maps
• Diagrams
• Cutaways
• Captions
• Glossary
• Labels
• Close-ups

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• What K-2 English Language Arts S.L.E.s Strongly
  Correlate with Nonfiction Text?

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Analyze Nonfiction

• Dig Deeper
• Strategic Instruction taught in shared reading
• Strategy based mini-lessons Read Aloud
• Discovery Learning experiments or labs
• Responding in Writing Shared Individual
• Applied learning in Guided Reading Groups

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ORGANIZE, ORGANIZE, ORGANIZE
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Teach Students How To Organize

• Text Structures Specific Graphic Organizers
• What Graphic Organizer fits my text best?

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Sample Graphic Organizers
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Put Your Right Hand In.

• ACTION

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Put Your Head In

• What Does Research Say

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Shake It All About!

• Now its time to plan!