Rigorous Reading across Disciplines

•Participants will leave with key instructional strategies and processes to support teachers in the implementation of Common Core Literacy across subject areas

•Participants will leave with a process and tools to immediately establish a common definition of rigor with observable look-fors for their school

GOALS

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•Building knowledge through content-rich nonfiction & informational texts

•Reading & Writing grounded in evidence from text

•Regular practice with complex text & its academic vocabulary

FOCUS QUESTION:

How can we make the rigor of the CCSS accessible for all students?

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CCSS Instructional Shifts

Segment 1:

A Process for Close Reading Instruction

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Teaching Close Reading

Segment 1 continued:

Close Reading:Moving Beyond a Graphic Organizer

1. First Reading – First Impressions

► Making meaning (comprehension)► Read and highlight difficult or meaningful words

1. Second Reading – Vocabulary in Context

► Meaning and effect (analysis)► Identify important sentences and use metacognitive

markers (? ! *)

1. Third Reading – Text Dependent Questions

► Key Ideas and details (interpretation)

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Guided Reading

1. Fill out the assigned section of your SOAPSTone graphic organizer, including textual support for your responses

2. Share out with the group

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Synthesizing Your Ideas!

Segment 2:

Collaborative Practice:OPTIC

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Teaching Close Reading

Goal: Identify and Interpret multiple details in a visual text (Close Reading of a Visual)

OverviewPartsTitleInterrelationshipsConclusion

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OPTIC

Segment 3:

Independent Reading

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Teaching Close Reading

Segment 4:

Assessment

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Teaching Close Reading

Quindlen’s essay and Lincoln’s second inaugural address both express the message that it is important for people in America to move past divisions to a more perfect union. How does the painting of George Washington crossing the Delaware express the same ideas visually?

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Writing Prompt

•Building knowledge through content-rich nonfiction & informational texts

•Reading & Writing grounded in evidence from text

•Regular practice with complex text & its academic vocabulary

FOCUS QUESTION:

In my specific discipline, how can we make the rigor of the CCSS accessible for all students?

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CCSS Instructional Shifts

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Rigorous Instruction

Rigorous instruction operates within, but at the outer edge of, students’ ability to master the content as evidenced by the standards.

Rigorous instruction includes the following:•Content that focuses on depth over breadth•Strategies that scaffold students through varying cognitive levels•Assessments designed to measure students’ ability to synthesize learning and adapt that knowledge to different contexts

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Thank you!

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Mathew Ostendorf mostendorf@collegeboard.org