Leaders in Literacy

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Presented by Angela Maiers Angelamaiers.com

Omaha Public Schools Feb 3, 2009

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Focus

21st Century StandardsNAEP 2002

Students will have the ability to construct new understandings by interacting across and within texts, summarizing, analyzing, and evaluating

them actively. They must be able to use literacy for creative and critical thinking and for

advanced problem solving. Proficient and advanced readers know and apply multiple

strategies to text in order to construct meanings from multiple perspectives and understand how

their meanings may differ

from those of others.

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21st Century StandardsNAEP 2002

Students will have the ability to construct new understandings by interacting across and within texts, summarizing, analyzing, and evaluating

them actively. They must be able to use literacy for creative and critical thinking and for

advanced problem solving. Proficient and advanced readers know and apply multiple

strategies to text in order to construct meanings from multiple perspectives and understand how

their meanings may differ

from those of others.

©Angela Maiers, 2008

NAEP Content Area Findings 2005

“High school seniors demonstrated consistently low performance across content areas when asked to

move beyond literal level interpretations.

Fewer than Fewer than 10 percent10 percent appear to have a deep understanding of specialized

material in which they are required to, evaluate, interpret, integrate, infer, analyze, generalize, and

articulate conclusions from.”Accelerating Academic Achievement: A Summary of Findings from 20 years of NAEP, The National Assessment

of Educational Progress, p.6.

Focus


Code Breaker Text User

Meaning Maker

Text Critic

21st Century Reading

Proficiency

•Conventions

•Language

•Syntax

•Semantics



Meaning Maker

Text Critic


Proficiency

•Ask QAsk Q•SchemaSchema•InferenceInference•Det ImpDet Imp•VisualizeVisualize•MonitorMonitor•SynthesizeSynthesize



Meaning Maker

Text Critic


Proficiency

Text UserText User•Genre•Form•Format•Medium



Meaning Maker

Text Critic


Proficiency

• Purpose• Intention• Motivation• Bias• Viewpoint• Credibility• Reliability• Craft

Comprehension Then

What color was Riding Hood’s Coat?

Who was she going to see?

What did she bring?

Who did she find in the cottage?

Comprehension Now

• How did Red feel when she saw the wolf?

• What did the author mean when he said the wolf was devious?

• Describe the mood of the setting?

• The author’s purpose for writing is…• The tone of this passage is? • The writer believes that… • Why did the author probably write this passage?• Which sentence helps convey the mood of the text?• Read the passage, which passage best describes the

author’s purpose?• Which writer is most qualified to say . . .• The author thinks that . . . • The author is believable because…• The following assumptions about the author suggest…• The author uses sarcasm to….• The tone of this poem can best be described as…?• Why might the author recommend . . .• The purpose of this is to…?• What is this paragraph suggest that the authors’ believes

that…?©Angela Maiers, 2008



Meaning Maker

Text Critic


Proficiency



Meaning Maker

Text Critic


Proficiency


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