week 7: march 8th

School of Education

Week 7: March 8th

2School of Education

Agenda

Housekeeping• Attendance, Reading Logs, Feedback

Children’s Literature and Teaching Writing• Genre Study: Cam Jansen• Reading to Write Mystery

Break Read Aloud Facilitation

• Theme: (Blended Genres/Unconventional Formats) Locomotion and Love that Dog

• Writing from Knowledge and Experience• Reading to Write Poetry

For Next Time


Children’s Literature and Teaching Writing

Genre Study • Elements of Mystery • Exemplar: Cam Jansen

Reading to Write Mystery• Using texts as model• Deconstructing genre

• Examining at Structures and Features• Constructing mysteries as writers


Noticing Text Factors

Considering genre, recognizing text structure, and attending to literary devices

• GENRES: three broad categories include stories or narrative, nonfiction or informational texts, and poetry• SUBGENRES of Stories: Folklore, Fantasy, and

Realistic Fiction• TEXT STRUCTURES: Characteristic ways of organizing

texts• TEXT FEATURES: Literary devices and conventions

authors use to achieve particular effects in their texts


Genres and Subgenres of Children’s Literature http://www.breitlinks.com/my_libmedia/children

%27s_genres.htm


Text Structure of Narratives

Setting• Location, weather, time period, time

Characters• Appearance, action, dialogue, monologue

Plot• Beginning--A problem that introduces conflict• Middle--Characters face roadblocks in trying to solve problems• Middle/End--High point in action occurs when problem is about

to be solved• End--The problem is solved and the roadblocks are overcome

Point of View • 1st person (I), omniscient (sees all), objective (immediate

scene) Theme

• Underlying meaning, general truths about human nature


TEXT FEATURES: Narrative Devices

Dialogue Flashback Foreshadowing Imagery Suspense Symbolism Tone



Genre Study: Mystery• Story Elements

• Setting • Characters--suspects and investigators or detectives• Plot

• A problem or puzzle to solve• Something that is missing• An event that is not explained

• Clues• Distractions• Narrative Device: Suspense


Mystery Words

Alibi Breakthrough Clue Deduction Evidence Motive Red Herring Suspect Witness


Mystery Genre Study

Use the graphic organizer to identify the generic elements in Cam Jansen.• Mysterious event, puzzle, or crime• Investigator, suspects, witnesses• Clues and distractions• Is there suspense? Where?

Using the graphic organizer, make a plan for your own early reader mystery story.• Either think of a new mystery for Cam Jansen to solve or

create a whole new detective.• Work alone, with a partner, or in a small group


Resources for Teaching about Mysteries

Mystery Net’s Kids Mysterieshttp://kids.mysterynet.com/

Thinkquest: Mysterieshttp://library.thinkquest.org/5109/index.html

ReadWriteThinkhttp://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-

plans/what-mystery-exploring-identifying-865.html?tab=1#tabs

School of Education

BREAK


Read Aloud Facilitation

Theme: Blended Genres/Unconventional Formats



LOCOMOTIONThis day is already putting all kinds of words in your head

and breaking them up into lines

and making the lines into pictures in your mind

and in the pictures the people are frowning and eating

and reading and playing ball and skipping along

and spinning themselves into poetry

LOVE THAT DOGAll of my blood

in my veins was bubbling and

All of the thoughts in my head were buzzing


Writing from Knowledge and Experience

What do these characters know? What have they experienced?


Poetic Forms

Rhymed Verse (uses various rhyming schemes)

Narrative Poems (tell a story)

Haiku (17 syllables, 5-7-5, Nature)

Free Verse (unrhymed)

Odes (celebrate everyday underappreciated objects)

Concrete Poems (arrangement of words helps convey meaning)

Epistlary (takes the form of a letter)

Sonnets (a fourteen line poem, a change of direction

Epitaph (in memory of someone who has died)


Poetic Devices

Alliteration: repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of adjacent words

Consonance--repetition of consonant sounds at end of words

Assonance--repetition of accented vowel sounds Imagery: words and phrases that appeal to the senses Metaphor: a comparison not using like or as Simile: comparison using like or as Onomatopoeia:words that imitate sounds Rhythm--the internal beat Rhyme


Responding to Literature through Poetry

Diamante Poems• Line 1: one-word topic (a noun)• Line 2: two adjectives• Line 3: three verbs(ing words)• Line 4: a four-word phrase• Line 5: three verbs• Line 6: two adjectives• Line 7: a renaming noun for the topic

Challenge: Antonym Diamante (begins with one object then transform to another object by the end)


Plan a Minilesson

Introduce the Topic• What is the new or focal content that you will teach?• How does it connect to what students already know?

Share Examples• What examples can be shared from the text(s)?

Provide Information• What new information can you provide students?• What misconceptions need to be clarified?

Guide Practice• How can you invite and support students in identifying

examples of the topic in the text(s).• How can you invite and support students in producing

instances of the topic themselves? Assess Learning

• How will you gauge students’ understanding of the topic?


Resources for Teaching Poetry

http://www.poetrybase.info/forms/ http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-

resources/student-interactives/diamante-poems-30053.html


For Next Time

Spring Break! Reading Log The Giver Read Aloud Facilitation: Power, Oppression, and

Resistance

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