Let’s Get Textual!

Dr. John D. Barge, State School Superintendent“Making Education Work for All Georgians”www.gadoe.org

Let’s Get Textual!

Daniel Rock, Education Program Specialist, Georgia Department of

Education

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Sentence Starters

Write three sentences. In each sentence use two of the words below until all words are used.

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Complex Text Academic Vocabulary

ELLs Informational textStrategies Common Core

Shifts


Key Questions

• What are the expectations of the Common Core standards?

• What tools are available to help me teach the standards?

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Learning Targets

• I can explain the key shifts of the Common Core GPS.

• I can use reciprocal teaching and other strategies to help ELLs access complex text.

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Reading Study Summary

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…the three big shifts

• Building content knowledge through (reading) rich nonfiction

• Reading, writing, and speaking grounded in evidence from the text, both literary and informational.

• Regular practice with complex text and its academic language.

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Reciprocal Teaching

Predicting

Clarifying

Questioning

Visualizing

SummarizingStudents take the role of teacher by learning and teaching these skills.

What is it?


Reciprocal Teaching

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Teacher explicitly teaches strategies.

Students take turns practicing strategies independently and in groups with text or

media.

Students rotate through the roles.

Students share and compare responses within small groups.

Students collaboratively

answer their own questions.

Students share best questions and

answers with class.

Students learn to predict, question,

clarify, and summarize independently.


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Each member of group has a role


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• THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value.

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Instructions for Reciprocal Teaching Activity

1. Assign everyone in your group one of the reciprocal teaching roles. More than one person can have the same role.

2. Read the first paragraph from Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass and American

3. Using the bookmark, complete your role: ask a question, make a prediction, summarize…Write your response on a Post-it note and post it on the chart paper in the appropriate box.

4. Students answer each other’s questions and comment on responses.

5. Students repeat this process as they complete the assigned reading.

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Complete Your Role and Share Responses on Sticky-note/Chart

Paper

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For more information--

• Daniel Rock, [email protected] • Susan Jacobs, [email protected]• Gerald Boyd, [email protected]

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