OVERVIEW FOR TLI TEACHER SPECIALISTS 11/09/12

STAARing Poetry and Persuasion:

Exploring Genre through Workstations

A Presentation written by Karen FosterAbydos Diamond Trainer

Fort Bend ISD

DR. JOHN

O’FLA

VAHAVEN’S

C-C

-P

C-C-P• Consume• Critique• Produce

CONSUME Students must read multiple types of texts (picture books, authentic texts, magazines, etc.,)

They read and explore in peer groups an din read alouds

They notice and name the features.

CRITIQ

UEStudents learn

to analyze and evaluate the specific genre based on the features.

PRODUCE

Students produce written examples of the specific genre orally

Then, in shared writing,

And finally independently with a gradual release of responsibility

STRATEGIES FOR TESTING

Test taking strategy W-H-W What? How? Why?

Useful to students AFTER reading a test selection and BEFORE being confronted by test items.

By pausing to ask themselves these questions, students think deeply and analytically/critically about text.

W-H-W WHAT?-HOW?-WHY?

What?What did the author write?

•Plot•Main Ideas•Summary

How?How did the author write

it?•Organi-zation•Text Features•Language

Why?Why did the author write

it?

•Theme•Purpose

SO…TO

BES

T HELP

OUR

STUDENTS

TO B

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“THIN

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HE TEST,

we need to develop tutorial and intervention activities that scaffold the complexity inherent in both the text itself as well as the level of rigor in the questions.

TEACHERS NEED TO:

Access a range of examples from all genres that can be tested.

Use activities/strategies that focus on students thinking through the What?..How?..Why? of the passage.

Use Think Alouds with the students as the teacher reads the passage aloud and share your thinking about the passage,

Using questions stems that have the rigor of STAAR is important as well as a heuristic approach

WORKSTA

TIONS

1. Poetry Exploration Purpose: Consume

2. Poetry Theatre Purpose: Consume

3. Poetic Devices: Looking Within

Purpose: Critique

Poetr

y

WORKSTA

TIONS

4. Persuasive Text: Looking Within Purpose: Consume

5. Persuasive Techniques: Tools of Persuasion Purpose: Critique

6. Genre Exploration Cubes

Purpose: Critique

Persu

asiv

e Te

xt

THANK

YOU!

Together

Everyone

Achieves

More!