Super Sleuths – Read Like a Detective

1. Super Sleuths – Read Like a Detective • Heather Walker

2. Agenda • What is Sleuth Reading • Why does Sleuth Reading matter? • What should I choose for Sleuth Reading? • How do I teach Sleuth Reading? • Steps of Sleuth Reading • Your Turn

3. What is Sleuth Reading? • Sleuth Reading helps readers unlock the mysteries of a text and develop ideas and opinions based on information provided in a text.

4. Why Does Sleuth Reading Matter? • Research behind the CCSS shows that the difficulty of texts used in elementary classrooms has decreased over the past fifty years. As a result, Common Core has underscored the importance of building students’ capacity for reading more complex text.

5. What Should I Choose for Sleuth Reading? • Provide a wide array of engaging selections across grade levels with increasingly challenging literary and informational content. • Offer compact and focused selections that students can read and reread to carefully consider the development of ideas. • Foster rich content knowledge through independent and proficient reading and rereading of complex texts. • Encourage the development of new language and critical thinking skills that can be applied to even more complex texts.

6. How do I Teach Sleuth Reading? • Engage students in activities or questions that require them to dig deeper into the text. • Ask student to respond to questions that expect them to “Look for Clues” or “Gather Evidence”. • Invite students to generate strong questions that build curiosity. • Reflect on the Evidence to take a side.

7. Sleuth Reading Steps • Step 1- Look for Clues or Gather Evidence • Step 2- Ask Questions • Step 3- Make Your Case • Step 4- Prove It

8. Close and Critical Reading Look for Clues What a Text Says RESTATEMENT CCSS 1 Ask Questions What a Text Does DESCRIPTION CCSS 3, 4, and 5 Make Your Case What a Text Means INTEPRETATION CCSS 2, 6, and 8 Prove It What it Means to Me APPLICATION CCSS 7 and 9

9. Step 1-Look for Clues/Gather Evidence • Student Return to the text to find clues and evidence that will help them answer the question being posed. • In this step, students: • Identify sequence • Look for causes and effects • Compare and Contrast information • Look for bias • Determine credibility of information

10. Step 2-Ask Questions • The Key to understanding a text is asking rather than answering questions. Now students are asked to generate and evaluate questions based on their reading. • In this step, students: • Explore their interests • Think like an expert • Distinguish fact from opinion • Make connections among topics • Develop questions for inquiry

11. Step 3-Make Your Case • In making their case, students use the evidence they’ve gathered and the answers to questions they’ve asked to build a convincing argument. Students support their position with text evidence and prior knowledge. • In this step, students: • Justify what they believe and convince others • Think, debate, discuss, and think some more • Explore “layers” of thought • Draw conclusions supported with evidence • Summarize and retell key points

12. Step 4-Prove It! • The last step involves a performance task that gives students an opportunity to prove they’ve developed a deep understanding of the text and can take what they’ve learned to a new level. • In this step, students: • Prove that they’ve developed new insights • Make cross-curricular connections • Write, research, role-play, crate art, debate • Work with partners or small groups • Have some fun with what they’ve learned

13. Let’s Try It

14. Scaffold as Needed

15. Questions & Answers

16. Thankyou