Session #5 - Teaching Reading: Literary Texts

Learning Outcomes:

CLO 5253.1 - Offer alternative instructional suggestions and strategies that address the specific needs of California’s diverse student population.

CLO 5253.2 - Identify a clear instructional goal that is related to the English content of the standards.

CLO 5253.4 - Identify the most successful and efficient approaches within a particular classroom so that learning is maximized.

Essential Questions:

- How do you teach English Language Arts in a Single Subject Assignment, &, specifically, reading comprehension, literary response/analysis, & vocabularydevelopment

- How will you teach reading in an engaging and developmentally appropriate way?

Agenda:

● Strategies/Practical Lesson Plans (see Strategies folder)

● Essential Questions (what's the big idea?)

● Connecting texts

● Close reading/annotation (see below)

● Teaching multiple standards

● Reading Comprehension (7 strategies)

● Shared Reading Experiences

● Expository Text Structure

● Graphic Organizers

● Note Taking (like Cornell Notes)

● Summaries

● Progress Monitoring

Information:

CLOSE reading is simply the uncovering of the text by the reading. There are many strategies available for a reader that will help explicate or uncover the text. What is CLOSE reading? See this video:

Video also available here.

Gazillions of reading strategies (in posters)

Here's an example of a Reading Strategy I created for my freshmen: Short Story Pyramid

Here are some oldies but goodies: Graphic Strategies Non-graphic & directions for graphic strategies.

Mt. Saint Mary's Reading Strategies

Assignments:

• DUE Today: LMU Lesson Plan 1 - Backwards Design

All assignments

1. Turn in all work as PDFs

2. Name your document with your last name and assignment (Example: Gen lesson plan 1)

3. Post work on your web sites.

4. Make sure all your links work

Below you see the Rubric for your lesson plan. After you post your LMU Lesson Plan, do a self-evaluation of your Lesson Plan. I will also be providing feedback on your lesson plan via email.

• Read & Discuss: Vacca, Vacca, & Mraz Chapters 7 and 10

Next Steps:

Next week - LMU Lesson Plan #2 is due. Create a lesson plan using the LMU template. If you focus on the same class, then your demographic information will remain the same; however, your standards will change since your lesson's focus will change. The focus of next week's lesson is on reading.

Please create or use a reading strategy and use it for this lesson.

Week after next: LMU Lesson Plan #3 - Writing.