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Startling Fact

Startling Fact. The reading level of documents, technical manuals, and other materials required by entry level positions in most fields far exceed the reading level of many students. Meeting the Challenge of Adolescent Literacy, Judith Irvin, et al. Startling Fact.

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Startling Fact

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  1. Startling Fact The reading level of documents, technical manuals, and other materials required by entry level positions in most fields far exceed the reading level of many students. Meeting the Challenge of Adolescent Literacy, Judith Irvin, et al

  2. Startling Fact The American College of Testing found only 51% of U. S. college bound students having developed the ability to read the complex texts central to college learning and the workplace. ACT, 2006

  3. 2009 NAEP Proficient Reading Level Eighth-grade students performing at the Proficient Level should be able to: • Provide relevant information • Summarize main ideas and themes • Make and support inferences about a text • Connect parts of a text • Analyze text features • Fully substantiate judgments about content and presentation of content

  4. How did this happen? Ineffective Reading Practices: • Skimming for answers • Surface processing • Reading and forgetting Classroom Strategies for Interactive Learning, Doug Buehl

  5. WHY ME? Why should content teachers teach comprehension strategies? What is included in effective comprehension instruction?

  6. What does this mean for my content?

  7. Common Core State Standards

  8. Looks Like LESS MORE Think a-louds, modeling, process information actively Short whole group then small groups to process info Opportunities to practice, discuss similar work in pairs/small groups before assigning seat work • Teacher lecture • Always whole group • Assigned seat work with little opportunity to practice new learning

  9. Comprehension Coding ! This is important √ I knew that. X This is different from what I thought. ? I don’t understand.

  10. Summarizing • Is not: • Retelling • Long • Full of a lot of interesting details • Is: • Process of identifying salient information • Concise & specific • Reinforcing and consolidating the many processes involved in learning from text

  11. Comprehension Coding andSummarization Model Lesson

  12. Prerequisite Skills • Determine importance • Delete unimportant information • Condense information • Categorize terms into specific groups • Transform condensed information into writing

  13. Animal Clones: Double Trouble? READ – Handout • While Reading: • Stop after each section • Highlight what you think is key to understanding the text • Write a few words out to the side of most important information concerning topic

  14. After Reading: • Share with neighbor – what you highlighted/annotated • Add to key points or delete some after discussion • Write in 15 – 25 words the key points in a paragraph or a $2.00 Summary

  15. Argumentative Writing • Making claims and providing evidence is called argumentation. • In academic sense, argumentation refers to the reasoning that someone used to prove a point.

  16. Scientific Arguments • Claims - what I think is correct or happened • Evidence – presented to support a claim, from data • Warrants – explain why this evidence provides legitimate support • Backings – evidence that a warrant is valid (not always used)

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