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Idea Circles & Inquiry Charts. Providing equal access to a range of reading levels. Purpose & Agenda. Purposes Provide relevant information on the whats , whys, and hows of Idea Circles and Inquiry Charts - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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PROVIDING EQUAL ACCESS TO A RANGE OF READING LEVELS
Idea Circles & Inquiry Charts
Purpose & Agenda
Purposes Provide relevant information on the whats, whys, and
hows of Idea Circles and Inquiry Charts Provide time for application to individual classrooms
and collaboration with othersAgenda
Time Action Purpose
9:05 – 9:35 Presentation Share information
9:35 – 10:10 Application Share resources, plan, collaborate
10:10 – 10:15 Wrap-Up Share final thoughts/further questions
What are they?
Idea Circles are small groups of
students reading different texts about the same topic (Guthrie,
1994)
Inquiry Charts (I-Charts) are an instructional framework to organize and synthesize
students’ reading (Hoffman, 1992).
Together, they provide a context
for students to gain equal access to higher-order
thinking about the same content-
specific vocabulary and
ideas.
Why do it?
Literacy demands of middle/high schoolAdequate time for literacy instructionAlignment to best practices in adolescent
literacy instruction (Reading Next, 2004) Comprehension Instruction
Comprehension/metacognition instruction Scaffolded instruction Apprenticeship model
Motivation/Self-Directed Learning Text-Based Collaborative Learning Diverse Texts Writing Instruction
How do you do it?: Overall Considerations
Topic Key vocabulary Key understandings
Student Grouping Reading levels Background knowledge
Texts Authentic Engaging Relevant
Example: Teacher Planning Sheet
Example: Student Chart
The HOW: I-Charts Example
The HOW: Planning
QuestionsStudent AssumptionsReading/Responding
Informational Text www.newsela.com www.thinkcerca.com
Reading Lists www.reading.org/Resources/Booklists.apsx www.socialstudies.org/notable http://www.nsta.org/publications/ostb/ http://www3.cde.ca.gov/reclitlist/search.aspx (all grade levels/disciplines)
Summarizing Modeling Co-construct all summaries
Rapid Research/Reporting
The HOW: What next?
Text-Dependent Tasks (in other words…accessing complex text requires
students to DO something with their new knowledge)
Writing RAFT “I am” poem Multi-genre writing
Speaking Collaborative Reasoning Socratic Seminar Debate
The HOW: Gradual Release
As students become proficient with the framework, offer them greater autonomy throughstudent-selected topics,
student-generated questions, and
student-selected response tasks.
Final Thoughts/Questions
Take-Away: How would you summarize today’s work in one sentence?
[email protected] Literacy Wiki: www.ccsliteracyresources.wikispaces.com