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NFRP 2014 – Adrienne Gear

Nonfiction Reading Power

Adrienne Gear

Key Reading Strategies for Information Texts

A proficient reader, engaged and interacting with text … (based on the research of

David Pearson)

• Makes Connections

• Asks Questions.

• Visualizes

• Draws inferences.

• Determines Importance.

• Analyzes and Synthesizes.

• Monitors Comprehension.

Planning Your Year – How to integrate Fiction and Nonfiction Reading Powers

SEPTEMBER, OCTOBER – Connect (F and NF)NOVEMBER, DECEMBER – Visualize (F)JANUARY, FEBRUARY – Nonfiction Focus – Zoom In, Determine ImportanceMARCH, APRIL – Question/Infer (F and NF)MAY, JUNE – Transform (F and NF)

Key Points of Reading Power:

1) Meta-cognition – awareness – thinking – articulating

2) Common language – everyone uses the same language when teaching the strategies

Decoding• Letters, sounds• Phonological

awareness• Spelling,

vocabulary• Fluency

Comprehension• Thinking• Constructing

meaning• Meta-cognition

(awareness ofthinking)

Five Reading Powers forFICTION:

• Connect• Question• Visualize• Infer• Transform

Five Reading Powersfor NONFICTION:

• Zoom-In• Determine

Importance• Connect• Question/Infer• Transform

READING SKILLS

CONTACT ADRIENNE:

EMAIL: [email protected] TWITTER: @AdrienneGear

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3) “Interacting with Text” – teaching students that the text is only HALF of reading. The

other half is the thinking that they integrate and weave into and through the text

interact

4) Three Levels of Understanding

STRATEGY FOCUS: FACT – REACT What? So What? What? So What? Now What?

STRATEGY FOCUS: TEXT FEATURES Begin with general comparison of Fiction and Nonfiction

Texts – notice similarities between both CONTENT andLAYOUT

Notice Nonfiction books have TEXT FEATURES:

Level 1 – LITERAL

(retelling, summarizing, text features and determining most important ideas)

Level 2 - INTERACTIVE

(reacting, connecting, visualizing, questioning , inferring)

Level 3 - INTEGRATED

( synthesizing, transforming, re-thinking)

Text + Thinking = Reading


What is the purpose of Text Features?

Highlight information Locate information Organize information Navigate information Access information HELP the reader!

Other activities to familiarize students with Text Features

Take Two books – noticing differences and similarities(To order Take Two Books contact: Barbara Fowler (go to bcalmer.ca for herco-ordinates )

Venn Diagram - comparing fiction and nonfiction (cut and sort) Nonfiction/Fiction book cover sort (using Scholastic book order flyers) Fiction/Nonfiction feature search Fiction/Nonfiction feature dictionary Let’s Help Seymour Simon! – creating your own nonfiction features Imagine You’re A... (Lucy & Meg Clibbon) – for teaching labels and charts My Map Book by Sarah Fenelli - creative mapping (map of my heart, etc.)

STRATEGY FOCUS: DETERMINE IMPORTANCE

Highlighter Pen – discuss purpose of this pen

Introduce new strategy: Determining Importance

Explain that with information books, good readers need to be able to determine

what information is the most important.

TURN A LIST INTO A WEB!1. Look for a list in the text.2. Draw a center for your web.3. Count the number of words in the list.4. Make “arms” for on the web for each word on the

list5. Decide what the center of your web should be

(topic)6. At the end of each web “arm”, draw and or label

each item on the list.


There are two steps: 1) Select or choose 2) Justify – explain

Key Words

What is it? A word(s) that unlocks Mii (Most Important Information)

A word is often a key word if ...

It is the subject or noun of the sentence

It can stand alone and still hold information

You can visualize it It is repeated within the text

Is a substitute word (means the same as a group of words)

SUM it up – using key words to write a summary

www.wordle.net or write a rap song!

STRATEGY FOCUS: Making Connections

Knew-New lesson

STRATEGY FOCUS: Asking Questions

Quick and Deep Thinking

STRATEGY FOCUS: Inferring

O.W.I Strategy

Notes:

Name: __________________

What?Facts from the text…

So What?Thoughts from my head…

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Name: ________________________

Interacting With Text

Facts/Sketch Connections Questions

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What? - So What?

What?Facts from the text

So What?What are you thinking?

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Name: ___________________

Fiction /Nonfiction Sort

Fiction Nonfiction

What clues did you use to sort your book covers?

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Name: ______________________________

Fiction is… Non-Fiction is…

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Cut and Sort

dialogue (characters

talking: ‘Hey, what’s up?)

can start reading

anywhere

start reading at

beginning

story facts true

photographs charts characters

heading made up venn diagram

page numbers caption fact box

index setting real people

labels fairy tale“Once upon a time…”

graphs imagination information

illustrations the end biography

cover maps not true

pretend title not a story

glossary table of

contents

beginning-

middle-end

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Name: ___________________________

Grade Teacher Room

4 Mrs. Jones 24

5 Mr. Nguyen 40

6 Miss Singh 12

_______________

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A T-Rex’s tooth is the size of a

corn cob.

_____________ _____________ ______________

apple

pearbanana

plum

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Bold PrintItalics Bullets

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Titles and Headings Flow Chart Labels Map Caption

Table or Chart Comparison Table of Contents Graph

ZOOM IN!

To Nonfiction Features

The turtle has a hard shell.

Animal Habitats

Forest ………………………. 3

Ocean……………………… 9

Mountains………………… 17

Desert……………………… 25

Arctic ……………………… 31

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What is Fiction? (to the tune of Frere Jacques)

What is Fiction? What is Fiction?It's not true! It's not true!Elephants are flying,Polar Bears are driving -It's not true! It's not true!

Funny, scary, monster, fairy,Adventure, too. Adventure, too!Characters and settingBeginning and an ending -But it's not true! It's not true!

What's NonFiction? What's NonFiction?Is it true? Yes, it's true!Facts and informationBut not imagination -Because it's TRUE! Yes, It's TRUE!

Charts and labels, webs and tables,Captions, too, captions, too.Frogs and bugs and habitat,Planets, weather, whales and batsIt's all TRUE! Yes, it's TRUE!

By Adrienne Gear

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Name: _____________________

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Key Words

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Name: _____________________

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Key Words

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SUM It UpCHALLENGE:Using every word in your list, plus someextras, try to write one two sentencesabout your topic for $2.00 or less.

• Every word in your list is worth 10 cents• “Topic” word is always free (on sale!)

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

TOTAL: $_____________

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3,2,1 O.W.I.

OBSERVE WONDER INFER

Name: _________________________

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3,2,1 O.W.I.

OBSERVE WONDER INFER

Name: ___________________________

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Making Connections

My connection to this book:

__________________________

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__________________________Name: _______________________________

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Name: ________________

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I already KNEW… This is NEW to me…

I visualized… I’m wondering:

Name: ____________________________ Date: _____________________

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Fact React

Synthesizing

Non-Fiction

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