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NFRP 2014 – Adrienne Gear
Nonfiction Reading Power
Adrienne Gear
Key Reading Strategies for Information Texts
A proficient reader, engaged and interacting with text … (based on the research of
David Pearson)
• Makes Connections
• Asks Questions.
• Visualizes
• Draws inferences.
• Determines Importance.
• Analyzes and Synthesizes.
• Monitors Comprehension.
Planning Your Year – How to integrate Fiction and Nonfiction Reading Powers
SEPTEMBER, OCTOBER – Connect (F and NF)NOVEMBER, DECEMBER – Visualize (F)JANUARY, FEBRUARY – Nonfiction Focus – Zoom In, Determine ImportanceMARCH, APRIL – Question/Infer (F and NF)MAY, JUNE – Transform (F and NF)
Key Points of Reading Power:
1) Meta-cognition – awareness – thinking – articulating
2) Common language – everyone uses the same language when teaching the strategies
Decoding• Letters, sounds• Phonological
awareness• Spelling,
vocabulary• Fluency
Comprehension• Thinking• Constructing
meaning• Meta-cognition
(awareness ofthinking)
Five Reading Powers forFICTION:
• Connect• Question• Visualize• Infer• Transform
Five Reading Powersfor NONFICTION:
• Zoom-In• Determine
Importance• Connect• Question/Infer• Transform
READING SKILLS
CONTACT ADRIENNE:
EMAIL: [email protected] TWITTER: @AdrienneGear
WEBSITE: www.readingpowergear.com
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NFRP 2014 – Adrienne Gear
3) “Interacting with Text” – teaching students that the text is only HALF of reading. The
other half is the thinking that they integrate and weave into and through the text
interact
4) Three Levels of Understanding
STRATEGY FOCUS: FACT – REACT What? So What? What? So What? Now What?
STRATEGY FOCUS: TEXT FEATURES Begin with general comparison of Fiction and Nonfiction
Texts – notice similarities between both CONTENT andLAYOUT
Notice Nonfiction books have TEXT FEATURES:
Level 1 – LITERAL
(retelling, summarizing, text features and determining most important ideas)
Level 2 - INTERACTIVE
(reacting, connecting, visualizing, questioning , inferring)
Level 3 - INTEGRATED
( synthesizing, transforming, re-thinking)
Text + Thinking = Reading
NFRP 2014 – Adrienne Gear
What is the purpose of Text Features?
Highlight information Locate information Organize information Navigate information Access information HELP the reader!
Other activities to familiarize students with Text Features
Take Two books – noticing differences and similarities(To order Take Two Books contact: Barbara Fowler (go to bcalmer.ca for herco-ordinates )
Venn Diagram - comparing fiction and nonfiction (cut and sort) Nonfiction/Fiction book cover sort (using Scholastic book order flyers) Fiction/Nonfiction feature search Fiction/Nonfiction feature dictionary Let’s Help Seymour Simon! – creating your own nonfiction features Imagine You’re A... (Lucy & Meg Clibbon) – for teaching labels and charts My Map Book by Sarah Fenelli - creative mapping (map of my heart, etc.)
STRATEGY FOCUS: DETERMINE IMPORTANCE
Highlighter Pen – discuss purpose of this pen
Introduce new strategy: Determining Importance
Explain that with information books, good readers need to be able to determine
what information is the most important.
TURN A LIST INTO A WEB!1. Look for a list in the text.2. Draw a center for your web.3. Count the number of words in the list.4. Make “arms” for on the web for each word on the
list5. Decide what the center of your web should be
(topic)6. At the end of each web “arm”, draw and or label
each item on the list.
NFRP 2014 – Adrienne Gear
There are two steps: 1) Select or choose 2) Justify – explain
Key Words
What is it? A word(s) that unlocks Mii (Most Important Information)
A word is often a key word if ...
It is the subject or noun of the sentence
It can stand alone and still hold information
You can visualize it It is repeated within the text
Is a substitute word (means the same as a group of words)
SUM it up – using key words to write a summary
www.wordle.net or write a rap song!
STRATEGY FOCUS: Making Connections
Knew-New lesson
STRATEGY FOCUS: Asking Questions
Quick and Deep Thinking
STRATEGY FOCUS: Inferring
O.W.I Strategy
Notes:
Name: __________________
What?Facts from the text…
So What?Thoughts from my head…
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Name: ________________________
Interacting With Text
Facts/Sketch Connections Questions
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Name: ________________________
Reading Power GEAR Reproducible for Classroom Use Only
What? - So What?
What?Facts from the text
So What?What are you thinking?
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Name: ___________________
Fiction /Nonfiction Sort
Fiction Nonfiction
What clues did you use to sort your book covers?
___________________________________________
___________________________________________
___________________________________________
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Name: ______________________________
Fiction is… Non-Fiction is…
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Cut and Sort
dialogue (characters
talking: ‘Hey, what’s up?)
can start reading
anywhere
start reading at
beginning
story facts true
photographs charts characters
heading made up venn diagram
page numbers caption fact box
index setting real people
labels fairy tale“Once upon a time…”
graphs imagination information
illustrations the end biography
cover maps not true
pretend title not a story
glossary table of
contents
beginning-
middle-end
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Name: ___________________________
Grade Teacher Room
4 Mrs. Jones 24
5 Mr. Nguyen 40
6 Miss Singh 12
_______________
_____________
A T-Rex’s tooth is the size of a
corn cob.
_____________ _____________ ______________
apple
pearbanana
plum
_______________
Bold PrintItalics Bullets
______________
Titles and Headings Flow Chart Labels Map Caption
Table or Chart Comparison Table of Contents Graph
ZOOM IN!
To Nonfiction Features
The turtle has a hard shell.
Animal Habitats
Forest ………………………. 3
Ocean……………………… 9
Mountains………………… 17
Desert……………………… 25
Arctic ……………………… 31
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What is Fiction? (to the tune of Frere Jacques)
What is Fiction? What is Fiction?It's not true! It's not true!Elephants are flying,Polar Bears are driving -It's not true! It's not true!
Funny, scary, monster, fairy,Adventure, too. Adventure, too!Characters and settingBeginning and an ending -But it's not true! It's not true!
What's NonFiction? What's NonFiction?Is it true? Yes, it's true!Facts and informationBut not imagination -Because it's TRUE! Yes, It's TRUE!
Charts and labels, webs and tables,Captions, too, captions, too.Frogs and bugs and habitat,Planets, weather, whales and batsIt's all TRUE! Yes, it's TRUE!
By Adrienne Gear
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Name: _____________________
_______________________________________________________________________
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Key Words
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Name: _____________________
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Key Words
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SUM It UpCHALLENGE:Using every word in your list, plus someextras, try to write one two sentencesabout your topic for $2.00 or less.
• Every word in your list is worth 10 cents• “Topic” word is always free (on sale!)
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
TOTAL: $_____________
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3,2,1 O.W.I.
OBSERVE WONDER INFER
Name: _________________________
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3,2,1 O.W.I.
OBSERVE WONDER INFER
Name: ___________________________
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Making Connections
My connection to this book:
__________________________
__________________________
__________________________
__________________________Name: _______________________________
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Name: ________________
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I already KNEW… This is NEW to me…
I visualized… I’m wondering:
Name: ____________________________ Date: _____________________
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Fact React
Synthesizing
Non-Fiction