“Do I Really Have to Teach Reading?”

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." (William Butler Yeats)

Game Plan

• Incorporate real life stories and quotes

• Relate techniques to all concentrations

• Apply to current events • Engage with questions

What Works?

• Why am I doing this?

• Is this activity authentic?

• Consider what strategies we use in reading.

• Design curriculum.

• Use students ideas to spark lessons.

• Ignite interest and kindle activities with text sets.

• Clear goals.• Model learning.

Strategize

• So What?:Double-entry diaryAids students in connecting

with the text.• ComprehensionConstructorsHelps students zone-in on

concepts to explore.• Reading Log

Respond to personal reading selections.

• ChartsActivate group work by posting ideas.

• Marking the TextWrite questions or thoughts on text.

• Conversation calendarsDevelop dialogue with Q & A between teacher and student.

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Groups & Assessments

• Review what they have covered.

• Share an opinion supported by text.

• Discuss something interesting.

• Assign to evaluate.

• Offers brief conferences.

• Provides individual instruction.

• Illustrates possible grading system.

Across Content Areas

• Advocate disciplinary literacy instructional programs

• Understand how to apply comprehension to specialized texts

• Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL)

Three Part Method of Analyzing Language

1) Experientially: Who, What, Where, When, Why?

Look at the content of the text to see what is happening. 2) Interpersonally: Relationships among people and attitudes.

Style or voice of text. Opinion. 3) Textually: The way info. is organized. Theme/rheme and cohesion.

"Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty."   

(Albert Einstein)

“So What?”:Double-entry Diary

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After we read the article we will fill-out the “So What?”: Double-entry Diary.