Read “How to Bartle Puzballs”and answer the questions.

“Do Now” Activity

Summer School 2009

TAKS Implementation

There are tork gooboos of puzballs, including laplies, mushos, and fushos. Even if you bartle the puzballs that tovo inny and onny of the pern, they do not grunto any lipples. In order to geemee a puzball that guntos lipples, you should bartle the fusho who has rarckled the parshtootoos after her humply fluflu.

How to Bartle Puzballs

1. How many of gooboos of puzballs are there?2. What are laplies, mushos, and fushos?3. Even if you bartle the puzballs that tovo inny and onny of the

pern, they will not what?4. How can you geemee a puzball that guntos lipples?

Gallagher, Kelly (2004). Deeper Reading: Comprehending Challenging Texts, 4-12.

Answers

1.There are tork gooboos of puzballs.

2.Laplies, mushos, and fushos are tork gooboos of puzballs.

3.They will not grunto any lipples.4.You should bartle the fusho who

has rarckled her parshtootoos after her humply fluflu

Gallagher, Kelly (2004). Deeper Reading: Comprehending Challenging Texts, 4-12.

Lesson openers (starters) to engage and motivate students

“Do Now” Activity

http://classroom-activities.suite101.com/article.cfm/five_fantastic_starters_donows

Surface level reading

vs

Evaluate, Analyze, Synthesize

Digging Deeper

Gallagher, Kelly (2004). Deeper Reading: Comprehending Challenging Texts, 4-12.

Do we really understand what we read?

Conversation Piece

What happened in the story???

Read between the lines: inference

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, 1950.

“If we simply assign reading instead of teaching students how to read, we’ll get poor

reading.”

•Why should a content area teacher teach reading?

•How do I find the time?

•Shouldn’t they have learned to read in elementary school?

•Why is reading so important in social studies

•Only a fraction of students can read the textbook.

•Integrate comprehension strategies

•Reading instruction should continue through secondary level

•85-95% of content addresses in SS is from reading

(Tovani, pg. 19)

Do we use textbooks all the time?

• Newspapers• Atlases• Magazines• Primary and secondary

sources• Internet

We use expository text.

Types of Expository Text

Advertisements, autobiographies, biographies, book reports, brochures,

campaign speeches, cartoons, catalogues, comics, complaints, definitions, directions,

editorials, instructions, interviews, invitations, journals, lab reports, letters,

lists, maps, menus, etc.

Expository text has varied structure.

• TEXT STRUCTURE refers to the characteristics of written material and the way ideas in a text are constructed and organized.

• There is a strong connection between reading comprehension and understanding text structures. Knowledge of text structure allows the reader to select and attend to the right details so comprehension can occur.

1. Predict what is found inside each “box” below.2. Did you use the outside of the box to make your prediction?

Research shows that good readers determine structures based on their experiences with a variety of texts, and they apply this knowledge when they read new material.

1. Definition

2. Description

3. Process (collection, time order, or listing)

4. Classification

5. Comparison

6. Analysis

7. Persuasion

Digging Deeper:7 Structures of Expository Text

Foldable Bookhttp://www.nellieedge.com/pdf/foldlittlebook.pdf

1. Definition

Unalienable rightA right that cannot be taken away without due process.

Definition Text Structureprovides meaning of term or concept.

2. DescriptionDescription Text Structure provides a written visual of concept.

3. Process

Process Text Structure provides an order of events or steps to a task. (Sequential)

4. Classification

Classification Text Structure provides information organized according to categories.

5. Comparison

Comparison Text Structure focuses on similarities or differences of two or more topics.

Over-production

Uneven Dist.of Wealth

High Tariffs

Under-consumption

Not Enough Money

in Circulation

EuropeanCountriesCan’t Pay

6. AnalysisAnalysis Text Structure identifies the reason for

something occurring and lists what occurs because of that reason. (Cause and Effect)

Slavery in the U.S.

Northern View

Southern View

Western View

7. PersuasionPersuasion Text Structure focuses on the

conclusion or end result of a concept or event.

Social Studies Text Organization

• Cause and Effect

• Definition or explanation

• Chronological or sequential order of events

• Question-and-answer

pattern

Use Use appropriate appropriate organizers!organizers!

Use Use appropriate appropriate organizers!organizers!

http://www.readingquest.org/strat/graphic.html

What is a graphic organizer?

Use Use appropriate appropriate organizers!organizers!

Using graphic organizers:

http://www.worksheetworks.com/miscellanea/graphic-organizers.html

http://www.edhelper.com/teachers/graphic_organizers.htm

• Pre-Reading Strategy: “Chapter Tour”

• Identify the text structures in the questions…

Reflect on this activity:

• Will you change how to present text structure to your students?

• Use it for Problem of the Day…

closely at the following diagram.

You will reproduce it on a piece of paper.

You have one minute to draw!

You have one minute to draw!

17766024365411

Write the number from memory!

What generalizations can you draw from this experience?

GeneralizationsA structure/organizational pattern/process

supports learning – in all content areas.

NOTE: If the participants knew ahead of time the following structure/ organizational pattern/process, they would only need a few seconds to memorize the number:

•1776 our nation’s birthday

•60 minutes in an hour

•24 hours in a day

•365 days in a year

•411 directory assistance

Answers

School Program 2009

http://socialstudiestaks.wikispaces.com/