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Ratcheting up our nonfiction reading practices to read more complex informational texts
Ratcheting up our nonfiction reading practices to read more complex informational texts
GUIDING Unit QUESTIONS:
GUIDING Unit QUESTIONS:
- How can I determine more than one central idea across a text?
- How can I use narrative and expository text structures and features as a way to help navigate the ideas and information in a text?
- How can I keep track of many central ideas about a topic while reading across texts, sorting and synthesizing new information as I read it?
Bend One Teaching Points
Bend One Teaching Points
- Readers often find they need to call on a repertoire of strategies to orient themselves, including reading any abstracts or covers, figuring out how the text is structured, using any text features, rereading the opening paragraphs, and teaching others what they’ve learned.
- Readers are careful to think and strategize before taking notes - stopping to ask: what’s really important? How will I organize my notes to best represent what I’m learning?
- Readers record a few big ideas and supporting details as they read, instead of trying to memorize all the information.
- Readers come to a text expecting to infer more than one central idea.
- Readers notice and identify the structure of a text or part of a text and use that to help them read for big concepts
- Example text structures: problems and solutions; compare and contrast; cause and effect; similarities and differences; pros and cons; and changes over time.
- Readers read between the lines to pull out big ideas or concepts that aren’t often explicit and easy to spot.
- Readers interact with new vocabulary by actively using strategies meant to help them figure out what new words mean - through studying text features, reading across the text and asking: how does this word fit with what I’m learning about this?
- Readers write summaries that clearly record the ideas an author advances in a text, as well include the evidence and specific details an author uses for support that’s gathered from across the whole of the text.
- Readers teach all that they’ve learned about a topic to a partner. They sum up key points about the topic and give supporting details, including visual supports, and cite their sources.
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