7What to do

When they fake read (or skim read)

Quick review

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Big problems Students don`t actually read the text. They copy the

guided questions off of classmates Students don`t take good notes; they write down

almost everything Without students able to bring texts home, they miss

the most important element of literacy . Clearly identifying context clues, comprehension of

main idea, and being able to summarize what was read.

Students don´t really understand the main ideas of what they read.

Have difficulty answering questions when thinking or analyzing is involved. (They are good at finding the answer when the question is written in the exact same words as the text.)

Common Core

Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make inferences from it.

Determine central ideas or theme of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.

Analyze how and why individual, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.

Apprenticeship

If they can do it, don’t do it for them!

Reciprocal Teaching

Predicting Questioning Clarifying Summarizing

Begin with apprenticeship model

Show them HOW to the do thinking Think aloud with them Practice with them Watch them practice with others

Last Words

The suicide note was brief.To my friend, my lover, my wife,Don’t blame yourself.

None of them did.

The Last Note

The suicide note was brief.

To my friend, my lover, my wife,

Don’t blame yourself.

None of them did.

Predict (and then revise or confirm the prediction)

Summarize Clarify Question

Tips Summary

Few words Main idea Most

important points

Retell Explain key

events Name most

the characters Similar to a

series of film clips

Questions Literal Inferential

Clarify Vocabulary Ideas

The Transplant

Lying on the gurney, I felt the I.V. medications take effect.“You came alone, right?”“Yeah, Doc, just you said. I get $10,000 just for a single kidney?”“That’s right, son.”Slipping into unconsciousness, I asked with slurred speech, “Then…why…all the secrecy...?”“Because I get twice that for a heart.”

Get them to show their thinking

Self-fulfilling prophecy

Pygmalion

Covert communication

Prescient

Double blind studies

Pick a role

Predictor Summarizer Clarifier Questioner