Transcript The K-12 Literacy Model and You

The K-12 Literacy Model and
You
Literacy Through Purposeful
Instruction, Critical Thinking, and
Shared and Modeled Reading
We are all teachers of
reading…
What does that mean in my
classroom?
Did you know?
• 40% of the state reading test is reading for
information—
– Non-fiction text and deciding the main idea
– Looking at charts, graphs, maps, and tables
and deciding what it’s telling you
– Interpreting symbols on paper in the form of
music, playbooks, sports statistics
Results of Reading Testing of TAG
students at Leslie
• 50% struggled with reading “1/50,000 of an inch”
• 25% struggled with “1,000,000”—reading this as
“one hundred thousand” makes a big difference
and impacts comprehension
• Most did not understand the time relation of the
Civil War and now
• 99% lacked academic vocabulary to perform
above grade level in content areas outside
of literature
District Mandates
• K-12 Literacy Model
• TAG corrective action
• Core standards
• Formative Assessment
Did you ever want to
scream…
Just give me a moment and
let me think!!!!
• Sometimes, that’s just what we all need:
Introducing Think-Aloud
Strategies for Improved
Comprehension
Why teach Think-Alouds?
• Provides students with endurance, leverage,
and readiness for the next level of learning
– Endurance: Goes beyond the standardized test date
– Leverage: Provides knowledge that will be of value in
multiple disciplines
– Readiness for the next level of learning: (this one is
self-explanatory)
• One strategy in the K-12 Literacy Model that
covers 4 areas
Goals
Teachers will be able to:
• Identify 3 different types of think aloud strategies
• Understand how think aloud strategies can be taught in
all content areas without hindering content coverage
• Create think alouds to use in their classroom
• Understand how think alouds can be used to differentiate
instruction
• Apply think alouds to use as formative assessment
• LANGUAGE GOAL: Teachers will read, write, and
discuss think aloud strategies as they apply to their
content areas
What is a think aloud strategy?
• It is a way of making the invisible thought
process
Visible
How does this fit with the K-12
Literacy Model?
• Think-Alouds can be used as part of
Purposeful Instruction, Shared Reading,
Modeled Reading, and Critical Thinking
(all sections of the K-12 Lit Model)
Leslie Literacy Notebook
–Reading Process
• Before Reading
• During Reading
• After Reading
–Reading for
information would
be taught in all
content areas
1. Teacher Modeled
• What do I do?
• Demonstrate prereading strategy
– Prior to reading scan titles, schematics, pictures, etc.
• Ask questions aloud to yourself
• Predict what you think will be covered and what you think will be
important—and say the why!!
• Write down information that you think you will need to know
• Create questions regarding anything you don’t know or want to
know, or think you will need to know
• EXPLAIN WHY
Text
Response: Questions,
concerns, thoughts
reactions
1. Teacher Modeled
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– Write
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think you will need to know
– Talk about things you disagree
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– Make connections to other
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EXPLAIN
WHY!!!!
controversial images and video footage, but evidence of them
can actually be found thousands of years ago near the dawn of
human civilization. Ancient Sumerian artifacts such as the one
shown below show a striking resemblance to the alien Grey.
Video
1. Teacher Modeled
• What do I do?
• Demonstrate post strategy
– Answer any questions you found answers for during reading
– Correct any mistakes you had during your predicting
– Go back to the notes you made and see if you were right, wrong,
or changed your mind
– Ask what more you might need to know on this subject and talk
about where you would find the information
– Revisit what you thought was important and rate it
– EXPLAIN WHY!!!!
2. Teacher Guided
• Like Teacher Modeled, this can
be done before reading, during
reading, or after reading—or all
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• Teacher poses a question or
series of questions and asks
students to respond based on
information in the text (either
orally or written)
• Responses are written on the
board and discussed.
– Students may help each other
support an idea.
– Teacher can ask clarifying
questions.
– Everyone works together
3. Independent Student
• 2 strategies
• Teacher can give guiding question—
– Example: Where in the text can you find
propaganda? What position do you think the
writer is coming from? Give examples
supporting your opinions.
• Teacher can allow free flow of thoughts
from student.
How this can be used as formative
assessment
• If you have been focusing on a specific
strategy, choose questions that will reveal
students’ mastery of that concept.
• Examples: Crescendo and decrescendo
in a music class, event sequencing in a
social studies class, literal comprehension
in a science class
Formative Assessment Cont.
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3.
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Pretest reveals lack of knowledge
Teacher teaches the skill
Think aloud used by teacher as a model
Next students are asked to help in a teacher
guided
5. students demonstrate on their own—written
and orally—teacher either formally or
informally assesses mastery
6. Teacher chooses to reteach to whole class,
small group, or move on because class has
reached 100% concept mastery
Where in Unit can it be used as
formative assessment
• Beginning, middle, or end
• If you have students create a written
document, then you can use that as a
formal assessment
• If you have students do think alouds orally
with partners, then it is an informal
assessment
• As long as you use it to plan instruction it
is a formative assessment
Use as differentiation
• Bloom’s colored cards
Knowledge:
Name
Example: Science—the rock cycle
– Knowledge—Name the phases
of the rock
Comprehension:
Illustrate
cycle
Analysis:
– Comprehension—Illustrate the
phases of the
Compare and contrast
rock cycle
– Analysis—compare and contrast the phases
of the rock cycle
Goals
Teachers will be able to:
• Identify 3 different types of think aloud strategies
• understand how think aloud strategies can be taught in
1. Teacher Modeled
2. Teacher Guided
all content areas without disrupting content
• create think
alouds to use in their classroom
3. Student Independent
• Understand how think alouds can be used to differentiate
instruction
• Apply think alouds to use as formative assessment
• LANGUAGE GOAL: Teachers will read, write, and
discuss think aloud strategies as they apply to their
content areas
Your Tasks
• Each data team group has a folder
– Either as a group or individually design a lesson that
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• Write it on the planning form
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– Fill out Iplanning
form on
how you will
teach the thinkaloud strategy in your class and how you will use it in
with…”
subsequent lessons
• After creating your Think-Aloud lesson, fill out
“Chalk Talk”on the yellow paper on your tables