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

GoalsTeachers 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

1. Teacher Modeled • What do I do?

• Demonstrate during “reading” strategy

– Ask questions aloud to yourself– Write down information that you

think you will need to know– Talk about things you disagree

with and why– Make connections to other

knowledge you have– Point out propaganda or bias you

detect– Challenge the author’s viewpoints,

etc.– Evaluate the diagram or picture

based on composition, information, etc.

– EXPLAIN WHY!!!! Video

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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 3

• 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.

1. Pretest reveals lack of knowledge2. Teacher teaches the skill3. Think aloud used by teacher as a model4. Next students are asked to help in a teacher

guided5. 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 cardsExample: Science—the rock cycle

– Knowledge—Name the phases of the rock cycle

– Comprehension—Illustrate the phases of the rock cycle

– Analysis—compare and contrast the phases of the rock cycle

Knowledge:

Name

Comprehension:

Illustrate

Analysis:

Compare and contrast

GoalsTeachers 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 disrupting content• 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

1. Teacher Modeled 2. Teacher Guided

3. Student Independent

Your Tasks

• Each data team group has a folder– Either as a group or individually design a lesson that

teaches the Think-Aloud strategy while covering your subject

• Write it on the planning form

– Fill out planning form on how you will teach the think-aloud strategy in your class and how you will use it in subsequent lessons

• After creating your Think-Aloud lesson, fill out “Chalk Talk”on the yellow paper on your tables

“To teach and implement the Think-Aloud piece of the K-12 Literacy Model I will need to/need help with…”