Using Children’s Literature to Enhance Literacy Skills

while Engaging & Entertaining StudentsK-6 with a focus on K-3

Presented by:Angelina McKinsey, Ed.D.

Educator & President of Martin Pearl Publishingamckinsey@martinpearl.com

www.MartinPearl.com to download additional teacher resources

Good Teaching Conference 2014Sunday, January 12, 8:30-9:45am

How do we do this? It’s easy!

• Instructional Leadership– Instructional leaders must ensure that all students are engaged

in reading text and it’s worthy of their time – enjoyable, too!• Common Core Standards– Review them!

• Bloom’s Taxonomy– Remember, Understand, Apply, Analyze, Evaluate, Create

• Variety of Teaching Strategies– Direct Instruction, Guided Practice, Independent Practice– Close Reading

Instructional Leadership

• YOU! • Good Teaching! • Understanding of Common Core Standards• Providing Opportunities for Your Students• Exposing Your Students to a Variety of Literature• Variety of Teaching Strategies…• This is where the fun begins! • Let’s GO!

Common Core State Standards Vocabulary

• Determine central ideas or themes• Analyze how & why individuals, events, and ideas develop• Assess how point of view or purpose shapes content• Interpret words as they are used in a text• Integrate content presented in diverse formats• Connect learning to prior knowledge & curricular subjects• Evaluate the argument and specific claims in text• Reason – use reasoning to evaluate evidence• Compare perspectives, themes, etc. • Support – use evidence to support • Summarize key details, ideas

Bloom’s Taxonomy• Remember – Students show the ability to recall facts, terms &

basic concepts

• Understand – Students show the ability to organize, interpret, describe and state main ideas

• Apply – Students show the ability to use knowledge in a different way

• Analyze – Students show the ability to distinguish between two different parts

• Evaluate – Students form and defend opinions and judgments about information presented

• Create – Students take information from multiple sources to develop new ideas or perspectives that synthesize what was already known

Bloom’s Taxonomy

Remembering: Can the student recall or remember the information?__________________________________________________________

define, duplicate, list, memorize, recall, repeat, reproduce state_____________________________________________________

Understanding: Can the student explain ideas or concepts?

__________________________________________________________

classify, describe, discuss, explain, identify, locate, recognize, report, select, translate, paraphrase________________________________________________

Applying: Can the student use the information in a new way?

__________________________________________________________

choose, demonstrate, dramatize, employ, illustrate, interpret, operate, schedule, sketch, solve, use, write_______________________________________________

Analyzing: Can the student distinguish between the different parts?

__________________________________________________________

appraise, compare, contrast, criticize, differentiate, discriminate, distinguish, examine, experiment, question, test_______________________________________________

Evaluating: Can the student justify a stand or decision?

__________________________________________________________appraise, argue, defend, judge, select, support, value, evaluate_______________________________________________

Creating: Can the student create new product or point of view? assemble, construct, create, design, develop, formulate, write

In 1956, Benjamin Bloom headed a group of educational psychologists who developed a classification of levels of intellectual behavior important in learning. During the 1990's a new group of cognitive psychologists, lead by Lorin Anderson (a former student of Bloom), updated the taxonomy to reflect relevance to 21st century work. The two graphics show the revised and original Taxonomy. Note the change from nouns to verbs associated with each level.Note that the two levels are essentially exchanged from the

traditional to the new version.

Close ReadingA close reading is a careful and purposeful reading. Well actually, it’s rereading. It’s a careful and purposeful rereading of a text. It’s an encounter with the text where students really focus on what the author had to say, what the author’s purpose was, what the words mean, and what the structure of the text tells us. Close

reading requires that students actually think and understand what they are reading. - Dr. Douglas Fisher

What Does the Doggie Say?Reading with SOUND!

• T-K – 2nd grade Also for Intermediate Grades w/ Primary Buddy Class

• Close Reading• Interactive Reading

(choral Reading, Readers Theater…)

• Extended Reading/Writing Activities… there are so many!

– Animal Sounds – Questions Versus Statement (oral language)

– Compare & Contrast (brother & sister, animals)

– Other Sounds (What sounds would you hear in your neighborhood, the playground, at the pool, when it is raining, ...)

– Trifold Worksheet

Snakes Wear SocksReptiles, Creativity

• Close Reading• Tie in Non-fiction books about

snakes & other reptiles

• Extended Reading/Writing Activities– Identify other reptiles– Compare characteristics– Think of a place where socks disappear– Story Map– Trifold Worksheet

Color My CoralEnvironment, Sea Life, Team Work, Anti-bullying

• Vocabulary Before Reading (Direct Instruction)

• Close Reading• Readers Theater and/or Choral

Reading

• Extended Reading/Writing Activities– Sorting Game

(Activity Coloring Book page)– Tic Tac Toe (Independent Practice)– Critical Thinking

Design a new product from recycling a plastic bottle and some glass. What will you call your item? What will it look like? Why will it be important to use?

– Activity Coloring BookExtra-curricular activities

VocabularyGuided Practice• Serene: calm or peaceful• Turbulent: wild or unruly• Hesitates: to stop or wait for a moment because

one is not sure• Coral: a hard, stony substance that is made up of

skeletons of many tiny sea animals• Recycle: to put something through a special

process so it can be used again• Polyp: a tiny water animal with a body shaped

like a tube. It has thin tentacles for pulling in food• Scurrying: to run away quickly• Marvel: a wonderful or astonishing thing• Grotto: natural or artificial cave• Remedy: a medicine or treatment that cures,

heals or relieves

In Jack’s MindEnhancing Descriptions, Use of Adjectives

• Close Reading– Make Predictions of the “creatures” in

Jack’s mind– Identify Adjectives

• Extended Reading/Writing Activities– Recall what happened to Jack– Use adjectives in a sentence– Trifold worksheet– The Writing Process presented by Mrs.

Barloggi download from www.MartinPearl.com website and use with students, share with parents

The Cat Who Chose to DreamHistorical, Therapeutic, Art Appreciation

• Close Reading– Author’s purpose– Illustrator’s purpose

• Feelings and Ways to Cope• January 30 – Korematsu Day• Common Core Lesson Plans by

Daniel Miyake

• Extended Reading/Writing Activities– Trifold Worksheet– Ideas for Discussion (

www.MartinPearl.com website& in book)

Enhance Students’ Literacy Skills and Joy of Reading!

Summary• Be an instructional leader!• Incorporate a variety of reading

activities:– Close Reading– Direct Instruction– Readers Theater– Independent Practice– Guided Practice

• Expose students to a variety of children’s literature.

• Use books like Martin Pearl’s to incorporate CCSS and Bloom’s.

• Involve critical thinking.• Make reading exciting!

• Children’s Literature Aligned to CCSS & Bloom’s Taxonomy

• Visit www.MartinPearl.com for Teacher Resources

• Share your activities and students’ experience with us!

• Contact us directly for Educator Discount (see flyer)

• Fill out Contact Slip to receive a class set of books (In Jack’s Mind/ What Does the Doggie Say?)