english sol institute secondary vocabulary & nonfiction reading workshop:

caalley@henrico.k12.va.usnshotwell@henrico.k12.va.us

English SOL InstituteSecondary Vocabulary &

Nonfiction Reading Workshop:

Headlines & Disquieted Minds

Carolyn Alley, M.Ed. Reading 6, RtI 7/8Nate Shotwell, M.Ed. Science 8

Holman Middle School, Henrico, Virginia

Vocabulary Use resources from English SOL

Vocabulary Web page Provide students with opportunities to

study vocabulary in authentic texts (newspapers, labels, advertisements, etc.) and words from reading material

Studying vocabulary from authentic texts strengthens nonfiction reading skills

Vocabulary Divide and conquer: Greek and Latin

roots! Model context clues. Give plenty of

practice opportunities. Connect vocabulary instruction to

the text through text-dependent questions.

Nonfiction ReadingUse content text books to create: nonfiction paired passages reading comprehension questions vocabulary questions usage/mechanics questions constructed response questions research connections paired passages

Nonfiction Reading

Organizational Patterns

• Chronological or Sequential

• Comparison – Contrast• Cause – Effect• Fact - Opinion • Problem – Solution• Generalization or

Explanation• Enumeration or Listing• Concept – Definition• Process• Spatial Layout• Classification• Order of Importance• Question – Answer

K-12 English SOL InstituteOctober 2013

Nonfiction Reading

Text features Boldface

Italics

Color

Captions

Headings & SubheadingsGraphics

K-12 English SOL InstituteOctober 2013

Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of

a fire.William Butler Yeats

Create an Appetite for Wonder!

Hundreds of Fleeing Syrian Refugees Reach Lebanon

QUESTIONS DRIVE LEARNING Where is Syria? Where is Lebanon? Why are the refugees leaving? How many have fled?

CONNECTIONS ENRICH STUDIES This is a modern day Underground Railroad

DEBATE ISSUES Should we go to war with Syria?

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/09/130920-syria-refugees-camps-war-children/?source=hp_dl2_news_syrian_refugee_camps_20130922#close-modal

Headlines Create Disquieted Minds

http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2013/02/19/172385254/the-filibuster-solution-or-what-if-honeybees-ran-the-u-s-senate

Articles Allow Learning to be More Accessible for ALL Students

Krulwich Wonders – Great Resource

The Filibuster and The Honey BeeComparing our government with the honey bee - this metaphor creates a stronger curriculum connection than plain content area text. 6.5j

A Chronicle of a Whale’s Life, Captured in

Ear Wax

www.sciencefriday.com

A Science Friday Headline from 9/20/13

Parallel readings provide the scaffolding necessary for the at risk student to gain knowledge from content text. 6.6a,b

Giant Gob of Earwax Reveals Blue Whale Secrets

This article’s rich text allows the student access to more difficult content text.

National Geographic’s Weird and Wildhttp://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2013/09/16/giant-gob-of-earwax-reveals-blue-whale-secrets/

Scaffolding Builds Background Knowledge

National Geographic Daily News http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/#

National Geographic Kids News http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/

Use for article of the week for HW or as a journaling choice. 6.7a

Articles are Current Resources

Capture the Spirit of Learning

Five Animals With Stinky Defenseshttp://kidsblogs.nationalgeographic.com/2013/09/19/5-animals-with-stinky-defenses/

Pictures and Headlines Support Reluctant Readers 6.6a

“The Latest in Scientific Field Equipment: Fido’s Nose” by Adam Cole

Graphics Literacy 6.6a

NPR: The Latest in Scientific Field Equipment? Fido’s Nose by Adam Cole/9/3/13

Don’t be afraid…

“I grew up thinking I didn't have the brain for science and in college I studied English and Art History. But after I became a reporter, I found myself gravitating toward science stories, which was very much a surprise, albeit a happy one!”

-Megan Gannon, Space.com Science Editor

Science is a collection of questions

“The questions are always more important than the answers”

-Randy Pausch, Dreamer

Find you Inner Scientist

“When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up”

-Eckhart Tolle, Author

Some Questions1. What is in your bag?2. What is inside of the

piston thingy inside of your bag?

3. Predict what will happen if I put the cotton inside the tube and push it?

So where do I find these questions?

HEADLINES!!!!! Cicada Infestation Russian Meteor Explosion California Wildfires 2013 Hurricane Season (or lack there of) Wallops Island NASA Rocket Launch Colorado Flooding Fall Equinox ISON Your science teaching colleagues!

Activity 1

Nonfiction PairedScience Passages

A Picture is worth 1000 words

Used with permission from author.http://www.space.com/21937-sun-solar-weather-peak-is-weak.html

What does this graph tell us?

A Picture is worth 1000 words

What can you tell aboutour current “peak”?

Used with permission from author.http://www.space.com/21937-sun-solar-weather-peak-is-weak.html

A Picture is worth 1000 words

How often do peaks occur?Used with permission from author.

http://www.space.com/21937-sun-solar-weather-peak-is-weak.html

A Picture is worth 1000 words

Are peaks good or bad?

Magnetic FieldParallel Readings

2 of my favorite unanswered scientific questions…

2012: Magnetic Pole Reversal Happens All The (Geologic)

Time (NASA)

Sun's 2013 Solar Activity Peak Is Weakest in 100 Years (Space.com)

Magnetic FieldParallel Readings

After reading both articles, work with your elbow partner to discuss the following questions: What similarities did the two pieces

share? What evidence do the authors offer to

help the reader understand the concepts? What questions do you have for the

authors after reading the articles?

It’s Greek to me Use the Greek & Latin Root website

to identify as many Greek and/or Latin roots as you can find in either article.

http://www.learnthat.org/pages/view/roots.html

It’s Greek to me Morph (form) Scientist (know) Geologic (Earth, Study of) Geophysist (Earth, Nature) Altitude (high) Solar (Sun) Century (one hundred) Hypothesis (To Put Under review)

Image courtesy NASA

Use Diagrams to Enhance Understanding

How does the diagram enhance the reading?

Image courtesy NASA

What does the image tell us that the reading does not address?

Use Diagrams to Enhance Understanding

Using TEI Questioning in your instruction

Place each phenomenon in the appropriate category.

Sun Both Earth

Flips every 11 years

Determines “north” on a compass

Associated with Auroras

Poorly understood by scientists

Is currently taking place

Behaving differently than expected

Using TEI Questioning in your instruction

Place each phenomenon in the appropriate category.

Sun Both EarthFlips every 11

yearsDetermines “north”

on a compassAssociated with

Auroras Poorly understood

by scientistsIs currently taking

placeBehaving differently

than expected

Using TEI Questioning in your instruction

Identify the ideas that the author (Earth’s magnetic field) suggests scientists are certain about.

800,000 years ago, Earth’s magnetic field was reversed

Magnetic reversals do not impact Earth’s rotationEarth’s magnetic field is caused by the hot fluid core

When the Earth’s field flips, we would not be protected from solar flares

Using TEI Questioning in your instruction

Identify the ideas that the author (Earth’s magnetic field) suggests scientists are certain about.

800,000 years ago, Earth’s magnetic field was reversed

Magnetic reversals do not impact Earth’s rotationEarth’s magnetic field is caused by the hot fluid core

When the Earth’s field flips, we would not be protected from solar flares

Using TEI Questioning in your instruction

Which statement would the author (solar cycles) disagree with?

There have been more solar flares this year than there were in 2010

Scientists understand why the sun goes through an 11 year cycle

The sunspots in 2013 are no bigger or smaller than in other years

A

B

C

Using TEI Questioning in your instruction

Which statement would the author (solar cycles) disagree with?

There have been more solar flares this year than there were in 2010

Scientists understand why the sun goes through an 11 year cycle

The sunspots in 2013 are no bigger or smaller than in other years

A

B

C

What did we learn? Return to your anticipation guide

and answer each question again after our discussion.

Standards based Instruction

Anticipation guide/follow up questions (SOL 8.6)

Synthesizing parallel reading (SOL 8.6) Greek/Latin roots (SOL 8.4) Utilizing diagrams to enhance

understanding (SOL 8.6) Using text dependent questioning & TEI

style questioning in your instruction (SOL 8.6)

Standards based Instruction

Science explains and predicts the interactions and dynamics of complex Earth systems (ES 2)

Characteristics of the sun (ES 3) Geologic processes and their resulting

features (ES 7) The history and evolution of Earth can be

inferred by studying rocks (ES 9)

How to get the “spark” Temperature is a measure of the energy of the

molecules in a substance. The more often and/or faster a molecule bumps into a thermometer, the higher the temperature goes.

When I compressed the air in the syringe, the air molecules got closer together, they bumped into each other more often and increased the temperature in the syringe to more than 500° F!

Cotton’s “flash point” is 454° F causing the cotton to spontaneously combusted.

The Fire Syringe is available on Amazon

How to get the “spark”

“The common denominator among scientists is this disquieted mind, a dissatisfaction with not knowing.”

Robert Tai, Science Educator, University of Virginia

“What Money Can't Buy” Rick Reilly

After reading the editorial, explore the things that money cannot buy. Use the article first and then use your own experiences to answer this essay. 6.6 e,f

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1107193/

Turn the Headline into an Essay Response

Choosing words carefully to summarize matches this generations desire to TEXT and TWEET with as few characters as possible. Even though the message is concise it is clear.

http://www.sixwordmemoirs.com/index.php Teaching impact with a short sentence http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/07/

the-short-sentence-as-gospel-truth/?_r=0

Summarize in a Sentence 6.6 g,h

Vocabulary is EVERYWHERE! 6.4 f

When talking about character traits, use words that will add to students’ vocabulary.For example:

Loquacious instead of talkativeTimid instead of shyFierce instead of intenseUse the game Headbands for a new vocabulary game.

The 10 most frequently used words across content domains (Coxhead 2000)

Analysis FactorsBenefit IndicateConcept LegalMethod EstablishedDerived Occur

6.4 f

Academic Vocabulary

Power Prefixes

The 20 prefixes in your packet make-up 97% of all prefixed words.

The list is ranked by usage. Why wouldn’t you teach those 20

prefixes? 6.4 b

Divergent Classroom Research: ISON

Spend 5-10 minutes researching ISON.

ISON Research Guide is what my students are working on today.

Force students to not just seek the answer but evaluate their sources.

Pros of using Student Selected Passages

Students gain authentic research experience (SOL 8.9)

Students are forced to evaluate their resources and choose what to trust (SOL 8.6 & 8.9)

Multiple & differing viewpoints incorporated into discussion (SOL 8.6)

Students generally self-select resources appropriate to their reading level

Cons of using Student Selected Passages

Difficult to monitor every student’s resource selection.

Impossible to fact check all of the resources that the class will use before you turn them loose.

Variety of materials makes formal assessment difficult.

Science Matters – Many interesting science articleshttp://ideastations.org/sciencematters Science Fridayshttp://www.sciencefriday.com/

NPR – All Things Considered – Great resource for articles and journaling (audio support)http://www.npr.org/programs/all-things-considered/Kelly Gallagher’s Article of the Weekhttp://kellygallagher.org/resources/articles.htmlKrulwich Wondershttp://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2013/02/19/172385254/the-filibuster-solution-or-what-if-honeybees-ran-the-u-s-senateNational Geographichttp://www.nationalgeographic.com/National Geographic for Kidshttp://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/13.7 Cosmos and Culturehttp://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/Academic Vocabulary Listhttp://www.uefap.com/vocab/select/awl.htmhttp://www.victoria.ac.nz/lals/resources/academicwordlist

Web Sites

Article “The Latest in Scientific Lab Equipment” http://www.npr.org/2013/09/03/192798179/the-

latest-in-scientific-field-equipment-fidos-nose Article: “What Money Can’t Buy” http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/ma

gazine/MAG1107193/ Notable Trade Books in Social Studies http://www.socialstudies.org/resources/notable Orbitus Book Award – Outstanding Nonfiction

Picture Book – sponsored by NCTE http://www.ncte.org/awards/orbispictus

Web Sites continued

Prefix and Suffix Word Lists Reference http://eps.schoolspecialty.com/downloads/articles

/Prefix-SuffixWordList.pdf

Web Sites (continued)

Where to find scientific writing

Web Resources for finding quality scientific writing for secondary studentsAstronomy http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/ http://www.space.com/Geology http://www.usgs.gov/blogs/features/Weather http://www.noaa.gov/features/archives/themestory_archive13.htmlGeneral http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/ http://www.sciencedaily.com/

Contact Information Carolyn Alley

Henrico County Public Schools caalley@henrico.k12.va.us

Nathan Shotwell Henrico County Public Schools nshotwell@henrico.k12.va.us

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