cheyenne wyoming oct 2012
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Notice and Note: Strategies for Close Reading
Robert E. Probst Kylene Beers
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Reaching Us
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Our over-arching goal
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What we’ll be discussing
Rigor, what it is and what it isn’t
• The critical role of talk and questioning in the classroom
• Comprehension strategies
Achievement
Percentile
Minutes of Reading per Day
Words per Year
90th 40.4 2,357,00050th 12.9 601,00010th 1.6 51,000
Reading Volume of Fifth-Grade Students of Different Levels of Achievement
(Based on In and Out of School Reading Logs)
Anderson, Wilson, & Fielding, 1988
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Rigor My definition
A collaborative definition Task:
not in the text itself…
Rigor resides in the energy and attention given to the
text
Ecuador 10-year-old banana trees
sharp heavy knives poor country
harmful chemicals
250 million kids
banning child labor laws 12-hour workdays as little as $27 a week no longer attend school
forced to work
What do you know about the oceans?
K -- What do I Know? W -- What do I Want to Know?
L -- What Did I Learn?
They are big
There are 4 of them
Pirates!
Whales
Hurricanes
They have names
They are salty
Who decided where the boundaries are?
What makes the boundary?
Why just 4?
Who decided there would be 4?
Are there pirates in all the oceans?
Who are the pirates?
Do different kinds of whales talk to each other?
Why are hurricanes called typhoons if they are on the other side of the US?
Are the names the same if you are in China?
Why does the salt in my tears not burn my eyes, but the salt in the Gulf of Mexico does?
Contrasts and
Contradictions
The character acts in a way that is contradictory to how he has acted or that contrasts with how we would act or that reveals a difference among characters.
Text Clue: Author shows actions or feelings that we haven’t seen before.
Question:Why would the character act (feel) this way?
Ah-Ha
The character realizes or comes to understand something that therefore changes his thinking or his actions
Text Clues I suddenly realized… Now I understood why… It hit me with a force… I knew what I had to do…
Question: How might this change things?
Erin—September, 6th grade
“Um, I think that, I think that next, well next. I think that well, I think more is going to happen with her being with them. And then she will probably go home. Because they don’t seem like forever kidnappers.”
Erin—January, 6th grade
Here, right when Luke, he decides to go to the house, so he had just been thinking about it, but here, he decided to go, well, I noticed that because he was doing something different, like a contradiction on how he had been acting, and so I noticed that. And that made me think that Luke, he’s like maybe getting braver some. But that’s going to be a problem because he needs to stay hidden. So, I think maybe that what’s going to happen is about him not wanting to stay hidden. Maybe like for the conflict.
Mark—August, 8th grade
I guess I think that maybe, I guess that, that something else is going to happen.
Mark—November, 8th grade
I stopped here because notice how it said that he had a sad smile. Smiles aren’t sad. I noticed that because it was really a contradiction and I wondered why he would be sad and smiling. I think that the Giver is smiling because he’s still trying to make Jonas feel good about this assignment but he also knows something that Jonas doesn’t know. This part made me think that something important is finally going to happen that’s about Jonas finding out something.
Megan—October, 7th grade
Megan: Miss—look! It’s that again and again. The story of the Denmark king. See, she’s remembering it again. Where was it first? Where was it? Can you find it? I don’t know where it was but this is like the, I don’t know, like it was a lot, that she keeps remembering this story, remember that her dad told her about the Denmark king and how anyone would fight for him?
Megan
Kylene: Why do you think this keeps coming up again and again?
Megan: Because. Because. I think it is because, oh, I know, see how she keeps remembering that anyone would do anything to save him. Oh—this is that foreshadowing. Here it is! This is foreshadowing. Oh my God. It’s right here! Do you think Mrs. Lowry knows she did this?
Tough Questions
A character asks himself or a trusted friend a tough question or tough questions that reveal concerns (internal conflict) the character has.
Text Clue: Questions, often asked of self, that
can’t be answered Sometimes offered as statement, “I
wonder if…”
Question:What does this question make me
wonder about?
Memory
Moment
The author interrupts the flow of the story by letting the character remember something.
Text Clue: “I remember…” “The memory flooded back…” “It was a strange memory…” “She suddenly remembered…”
Question: Why might this memory be
important?
Words of the Wiser
An important life lesson is shared with the main character.
Text Clue: A wiser and often older character
shares sage advice It is often a quiet scene just between
the two characters The advice might be one line or a
longer “lecture”
Question: What’s the advice and how might it
affect the character?
Again and Again
A word or scene or image occurs repeatedly.
Text Clue: Some sort of repetition (a word,
an image, a phrase, an event) which may or may not occur in same chapter
Question: Why does this keep happening
again and again?