Determining Importance Reader

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Determining ImportanceReaders Workshop

• Lessons 11
• Ms. Burns

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Determining Importance

• Students will distinguish the main idea from less
  important details in the text in order to
  determine importance.
• Students will distinguish between important and
  extraneous information at the word, sentence and
  full-text levels.
• Students will determine key words and main ideas
  essential to making meaning in a selection.
• Students will identify key concepts, ideas,
  literary elements, or themes in text.
• Students will consider how purpose(s) for reading
  helps determine what is important in text.
• Students will recognize the authors purpose or
  perspective and its effect on what is emphasized
  in the text.
• Students will use and combine comprehension
  strategies to make generalizations, draw
  conclusions, and determine what is important in a
  selection.

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Day 11

• KBAD focus on authors purpose.

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Over the next few weeks we will be talking in
Readers Workshop about how and why good readers
identify what is important when they read. Today
we are going to talk about how good readers focus
on the authors purpose when reading.
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Authors Purpose

• When an author decides to write a book, article,
  or even poetry they have a purpose for what they
  are doing.
• Entertain
• Inform
• How-To
• Persuade

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Turn and Talk

• Why might someone write a how-to article?

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Day 12

• KBAD identify important parts of base and root
  words.

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The next few weeks we will be talking in Readers
Workshop about how good readers find the main
idea when reading. Today we are going to talk
about how to think about new words when we are
reading.
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Root Words

• What do you do when you come across a new word?
• Thankful
• Preview

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Turn and Talk

• Why is it important to locate the root word when
  reading a challenging text?

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Day 13

• KBAD use prior knowledge of different text
  structures.

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The next few weeks we will be talking in Readers
Workshop about how good readers find the main
idea when reading. Today we are going to talk
about what things you already know about the way
that different types of text are written.
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Text Structure

• When we read we can notice how different types of
  text have their own special format or
  organization.
• Essay
• Textbook
• Poem
• Chapter Book
• Newspaper Article
• Poster

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Turn and Talk

• How is the text structure of a poem and an
  article different?

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Day 14

• KBAD look at a nonfiction text.

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The next few weeks we will be talking in Readers
Workshop about how good readers find the main
idea when reading. Today we are going to talk
about the features of a nonfiction text.
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Change in Thinking

• As you are reading, ask yourself
• Do I still picture the setting the same way?
• Have my feelings about a character changed?
• Did I make a new prediction for how the story
  might end?

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Turn and Talk

• How has your thinking changed about a character
  in a book you read?

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Day 5

• KBAD identify topic sentences.

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The next few weeks we will be talking in Readers
Workshop about how good readers find the main
idea when reading. Today we are going to talk
about the importance of identifying topic
sentences when we read so that it is easy to spot
the main idea.
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Topic Sentences

• Usually the first sentence in a paragraph
• Tell us what that paragraph is going to be mostly
  about
• Gives the reader the big picture without using
  details

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Turn and Talk

• Why is it important to notice the topic sentence
  when we read?

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Day 6

• KBAD identify different kinds of text structures.
  

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The next few weeks we will be talking in Readers
Workshop about how good readers find the main
idea when reading. Today we are going to talk
about the importance of identifying different
kinds of text structures when we read.
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Text Structures
Poetry How-To Fiction Letter

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Turn and Talk

• Why is it important to notice the differences
  between different text structures?

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Day 7

• KBAD plot the conflicts of a story.

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The next few weeks we will be talking in Readers
Workshop about how good readers find the main
idea when reading. Today we are going to talk
about the plotting the conflicts in a story.
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Plotting Conflicts
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Turn and Talk

• What skills do we use when plotting conflicts?

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Day 8

• KBAD look at character development.

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The next few weeks we will be talking in Readers
Workshop about how good readers find the main
idea when reading. Today we are going to talk
about the importance of noticing how characters
develop over the course of a story.
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Character Development

• Have my characters feelings changed from the
  beginning of the story?
• What new things have happened to my character?
• Has this character grown up in any ways?
• How did my character act in the beginning of the
  story?

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Turn and Talk

• How has your character changed from the beginning
  of the story to now?

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Day 9

• KBAD look at setting.

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The next few weeks we will be talking in Readers
Workshop about how good readers find the main
idea when reading. Today we are going to talk
about the importance of noticing the setting of a
story.
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Setting

• Where does the story take place?
• What time of year or season is it?
• Does the setting change in each chapter?
• What year is this story taking place?
• What does the genre tell me about the setting?

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Turn and Talk

• What is the setting of your independent reading
  book?

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Day 10

• KBAD identify authors purpose.

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The next few weeks we will be talking in Readers
Workshop about how good readers find the main
idea when reading. Today we are going to talk
about the importance of noticing the authors
purpose when reading.
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Authors Purpose

• Many authors write to entertain people and make
  them laugh.
• Authors also write to persuade or convince their
  readers to believe in something.
• Sometimes authors write to inform or teach you
  about something.

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Turn and Talk

• What would the authors purpose of an article
  titled The Best Movie Ever be?