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Anticipation GuideStudents in ourdistrict shoutwith glee whenasked to opentheir textbooks.
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Anticipation Guide Following these
expressions of elation, students dive into reading armed with nonfiction strategies to comprehend complex texts.
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Anticipation Guide Upon completion of
their reading, our students demonstrate effective use of expository text structures in their writing.
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Anticipation Guide During testing
scenarios, our students effectively transfer these nonfiction literacy strategies to achieve best results.
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Anticipation Guide More than
successful test-takers, we strive to create lifelong learners.
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• Dr. Allen taught high school reading and English for 20 years
• At the University of Central Florida she continued teaching • She is an internationally respected researcher, consultant,
and expert on adolescent literacy• Dr. Allen is the author of several professional development
books including Yellow Brick Roads, It’s Never Too Late, Tools for Teaching Content Literacy, and Inside Words
• She is the author of Recorded Books reading programs Plugged-in to Reading and Plugged-in to Nonfiction
Plugged-in to Nonfiction
8 Power Strategies1. Content/specialized
vocabulary2. Text features3. Text structures4. Monitoring
understanding5. Previewing text6. Activating
background knowledge
7. Questioning8. Noting, organizing,
and retrieving information
Teacher-Directed Teacher-Directed InstructionInstruction
Peer-Supported Peer-Supported LearningLearning
Self-Directed Self-Directed LearningLearning
The 3-Step Instructional Model
Teacher-Directed Teacher-Directed InstructionInstruction
The first step toward engaging adolescent and teenagestudents is teacher-led discussion. The Teacher Guide outlines the carefully chosen Core Text, offering teacher-directed strategy lessons and step-by step guides for classroom implementation. This allows the teacher to model each of the eight power strategies needed to help students negotiate a variety of nonfiction texts.
Peer-Supported Peer-Supported LearningLearning
Using the gradual release of responsibility model, teachers shift students from whole-class, teacher-directed instruction to guided learning in small groups: Power Strategy Groups. The combination of stimulating texts and a focus on a specific learning strategy creates an environment that supports students’ success with nonfiction text. After a modeled lesson the teacher can observe students’ progress as they practice the strategy on their own.
Self-Directed Self-Directed LearningLearning
The final step in the release of responsibility gives students a chance to experience engaging nonfiction on their own. Using the learning strategies encountered in the other two steps, students use a wide variety of supports, including audio, to understand the text. When used with the creative and challenging strategy lessons, Independent Reading books give students the opportunity to become active, involved readers.
Everything You Need
• Teacher Guide• Resource Binder• Audio support and print books
– Teacher-Directed Instruction• 24 print copies and 2 Recorded Books copies
of the 1 Core Text – Peer-Supported Learning
• 8 print copies and 2 Recorded Books copies of the 8 Power Strategy Group Texts
– Self-Directed Learning• 2 print copies and 2 Recorded Books copies
(where applicable) of the Independent Reading Texts (an average of 30 titles/Level)
Everything You Need
continued … • 8 Full-color copies of each of the 8 Power
Strategy Learning Guides• 5 Copies of each of the Independent Reading
Guides• Dr. Allen’s professional development books
Tools for Teaching Content Literacy, Inside Words, and On the Same Page
• Pre-Post-Assessment and Student Survey on CD
• Booktalk cards• 2 corrugated cardboard bookshelves
Tools for the Teacher—The Teacher Guide
The Teacher Guide continued …
Implementing the Lessons—The Resource Binder
The Resource Binder contains reproducible versions of all the graphic organizers, handouts, and student activities required to implement Plugged-in to Nonfiction.
Directions: Create a cartoon about one of the vocabularywords below. Each cartoon should include the following:
1. The vocabulary word,2. The definition of the word,3. A rhyming word or phrase4. A funny or interesting
sentence that uses the word.
5. A cartoon picture that illustrates the sentence.
atom genus species quarksaell larva proton element energy habitat pupa virus
The Stunning Science of EverythingVocabutoons (Burchers, 1997)
Mass – the amount of matter that makes up something
Don’t sass me about my mass!
Power Strategy Learning Guides
• TEACHERS will:– Introduce &
model the power strategy lesson
Power Strategy Learning Guides continued …
• STUDENTS will:– Discover applications for
the Power Strategy– Explore nonfiction text
using the Power Strategy– Practice the Power
Strategy with peers
• “Go high tech!” provides technology challenges• Group projects for authentic assessment• Multiple-choice and open-ended assessment• “Now You Are in Charge!” guides students through the text
Independent Reading Guides• Independent Reading
Guides include …– Letter to the Reader– Anticipation activity– Specialized
vocabulary– Reading for
information– Writing activity– Text-to-Text
Connections– Inquiry activity– Multiple-choice and
open-ended questions
Skills and Strategies Matrix• Every text has a skills and strategies matrix located in the Teacher
Guide. Each skill is linked to a particular strategy including … – Reading Strategies - Text Connections– Writing Strategies - Inquiry– Writing Fluency Activities - - Formative Assessment– Content/Specialized - Summative Assessments
Vocabulary Strategies
“If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers, who bring to them sound and smell and light and all the rest that can’t be in books. The book needs you.”
Gary Paulsen, The Winter Room
“Plugged-in to Nonfiction needs the same. It is you, the individual teacher in your own classroom, who will ring the ‘sound and smell and light’ to the program. This program needs you.”
Dr. Janet Allen, CreatorPlugged-in to Nonfiction
