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Reading Information and the USA Today Project

Reading Information and the USA Today Project. What do I need to know?. What do you Know already?. Class KWL on Informational Reading-What do you know ? What do you want to know ? When the music starts, transition into your group.

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Reading Information and the USA Today Project

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  1. Reading Information and the USA Today Project What do I need to know?

  2. What do you Know already? • Class KWL on Informational Reading-What do you know? What do you want to know? • When the music starts, transition into your group. • In your group, read the following article and complete the “ANALYZING A FEATURE ARTICLE FORMAT” together: Are you losing your voice mail? • Don’t talk smack....Bring it on BACK!

  3. ANALYZING A FEATURE ARTICLE FORMAT Title of Article: _____________________________________________________ Author: ___________________________________________Date: _____ Connected to content in: Math____ Social Studies____ Science____ Other (list content):_________________________________ Audience (Who does the author want to read the article?): ______________________________________ Purpose (Why did the author write this article?): _____________________________________________ Write a summary of the article in paragraph format. Be sure to include the details of the Handy Dandy Hand (5Ws and 1H-Who?, What?, When?, Where?, Why? and How?): ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Examining the lead - Explain how the article tries to "hook" your interest: ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Examining the text features - List any text features the author uses to help make the article more interesting or informative. (Examples - headings, lists, charts, graphs, diagrams, captions): _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Make a connection - Explain why this article was interesting to you. How does it connect to your own experience(s)?: __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

  4. Analyzing A Feature Article Format Enter the CORRECT information: • Title of Article: Are you losing your voice mail? • Author: Roger Yu • Date: Sept. 4, 2012

  5. Audience Who does the author want to read the article? • Adults • Children • Teens • Age/gender/ethnicity/etc.

  6. Purpose • Why did the author write this article? • Was it written to persuade, to inform/explain, to entertain, or to express/share thoughts or feelings about an issue or event?

  7. Writing a summary of the article in paragraph format • Be sure to include the details of the Handy Dandy Hand. • 5Ws and 1H- Who?, What?, When?, Where?, Why? and How? • A paragraph must be at least 5 complete sentences in length.

  8. Examining the lead • Explain how the article tries to "hook" your interest. • Sample “hook”-Title-Shelter destroyed by tornadoor picture-

  9. Examining the text features & graphic aids • List any text features the author uses to help make the article more interesting or informative. • Examples - headings, subheadings, pictures, lists, charts, graphs, diagrams, captions, tables, timelines, etc. • How do they help the reader understand the material more easily?

  10. Making a connection • Explain why this article was interesting to you. • How does it connect to your own experience(s)? • A text is more meaningful when you connect to it personally.

  11. Additional Information: • Text Structure • Main Idea • Tone

  12. Text Structure • Text structure can be defined as the pattern or organization of writing. Graphic organizer can help you evaluate writing too. • Writers of informational texts often use: • Chronological order • Sequential order • Compare-and-contrast organization • Cause-and-effect organization • Problem-solution order • Proposition-support organization

  13. Main Idea • The main idea, or central idea, is the MOST important idea about a topic that a writer or speaker conveys. • The main idea can be the central idea of an entire work or of just a paragraph. • The main idea can be expressed in the topic sentence of a paragraph or simply implied or suggested by details. • Finding the main idea may require you to infer. Inferences require you to make a logical guess based on facts and one’s own knowledge or experience.

  14. Tone • The tone of the work expresses the writer’s attitude toward his or her subject. • Words such as angry, sad, happy, humorous, and excited could be used to describe different tones.

  15. Do you have ANY questions about the USA Today Project?

  16. What did you Learn about informational reading? • Let’s go back to the KWL chart and complete it!

  17. THE END! **Turn in all of the following before you leave class today: “Analyzing a Feature Article Format” for the articles: 1) Are you losing your voice mail? & 2) NFL players at greater risk for brain disease, study says 3) Self & Peer assessment of collaborative group work

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