D E S I G N I N G I N S T R U C T I O N T H A T L E A D S T O U N D E R S T A N D I N G

Thinking through text

Essential Question

How can I teach for understanding?

Learning goals

By the end of the two days, participants will:

Understand the thinking strategies

Understand the “Before, During, After” framework

Know instructional moves

Annotating text

Building anchor charts

Using graphic organizers

Talking/discourse

Writing/reflecting

Triple Track Agenda

Modeling

thinking strategies

workshop

co-teaching

Read Aloud: Cris Tovani

Author of I Read It, But I Don’t Get It and Do I Really Have to Teach Reading?

And high school classroom teacher

Penny Kittle

Trios

Find two people

Introduce yourselves

Explore ideas

THE MONTILLATION OF TRAXOLINE

It is very important that you learn about traxoline. Traxoline is a new form of zionter. It is montilled in Ceristanna. The Ceristannians gristeriate large amounts of fevon and then bracter it to quaseltraxoline. Traxoline may well be one of our must lukized snezlaus in the future because of our zionterlescelidge.

A comprehension quiz….

It is very important that you learn about traxoline. Traxoline is a new form of zionter. It is montilled in Ceristanna. The Ceristannians gristeriatelarge amounts of fevon and then bracter it to quaseltraxoline. Traxoline may well be one of our must lukized snezlaus in the future because of our zionter lescelidge.

What is a traxoline?

Where is traxolinemontilled?

How is traxolinequaselled?

Why is it important to know about traxoline?

The answers….

What is a traxoline? Taxoline is a new form of zionter.

Where is traxoline montilled? Traxoline is montilled in Ceristanna.

How is traxoline quaselled? Traxolie is quaselled when the Ceristannians gristeriate lareg amountsof fevonandthenbracter it.

Why is it important to know about traxoline? It is important to know about traxoline because it is one of our most lukized snezlaus in the future because of our zionter lescelidge.

Five components of reading

Phonemic awareness

Phonics

Vocabulary

Fluency

Comprehension

Metacognition

Reading

What does it mean to read? What does thinking while reading look/sound like? What do you do when you read?

Last Words

The suicide note was brief.

To my friend, my lover, my wife,

Don’t blame yourself.

None of them did.

Invitation

Read “Conversation Piece”

While reading, annotate the text

Show the tracks of your thinking

What did you do to make sense of this text?

Learning from being metacognition

What does it mean to read? What does thinking while reading look/sound like?

Break time

What are the thinking strategies that proficient readers use?

But, first, what is a strategy?

“Intentional plans that enable readers to construct meaning.”

-- Cris Tovani

Mental moves that readers use to understand what they are reading

Before

During

After

Instructional moves

--Smoky Daniels

Strategies of proficient readers

Monitor for understanding

Ask questions

Activate, Utilize, Build Background Knowledge

Draw inferences

Determine Importance

Create sensory images…Visualize

and synthesize

Label our strategies

Questions

Visualizing

Synthesizing

Background knowledge

Monitoring

Inferring

Determining importance

Workshop Structure

Plus catch

and release

Before, During, After

Before: getting students ready to read

During: having students hold their thinking while reading

After: extending or deepening their thinking

Workshop #1:

Focus reading strategies:

Activating background knowledge

Making connections

Explicit instruction

Demonstration lesson

Application

Activating background knowledge

Read and annotate text 2 in the packet.

Background knowlege

Making connections

Text-to-self

Text-to-text

Text-to-world

Demonstration lesson

Wendy, we need to do something that gives them a reason to think about the photo about the woman with the eyes. Do we have an essential question for here?

DEBRIEF

Anchor chart

Application

Here’s what we modeled:

An interesting text

A purpose for reading it

Before (activating BK)

During (graphic organizer)

After (talk with a partner and build anchor chart)

How might you apply this strategy?

What text?

What purpose?

Before?

During?

After?

Post your thinking on the wiki

Workshop 2

Focus strategies: Determining importance

Asking questions

Text: Non-fiction

Before Word Splash

During Highlight and annotate

After Save the Last Word for Me

Focus thinking strategies: Determining Importance/Asking questions

Determining importance

Id key ideas

Distinguish among important, interesting, and unimportant details

Consider what’s important given their purpose for reading

Asking questions

Before reading to set purpose

During reading to maintain interest

A variety of questions

Literal

Inferential

Applied

What detail is most important in this painting?

Demonstration Lesson

Before reading:

Word splash

Generate a question

During reading

Annotate text with questions

After reading: Save the Last Word for Me

Word Splash

DISCUSSION

LINGERING QUESTION?

EXPLORE THE QUESTION

5 MINS/PERSON

KWL

KNOW

WONDER

LEARN

Application

How can you teach students to determine importance? Use questions in an active manner?

Before/during/after framework

Post thoughts in the wiki

Investigate the wiki

Check out the wiki

Post on the wiki: Choose one of the strategies and explain how it supported your

thinking.

How will that strategy support your students as thinkers?

Homework: Bring a text that you will be teaching.

reflecting

What did you learn about yourself as a reader today?

Homework

Bring some kind of text you might ask your students to read