Are your Students College Ready? (Strategies adapted from E.R.W.C.) Expository Reading and Writing Strategies

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Are your Students College Ready?(Strategies
adapted from E.R.W.C.)Expository Reading and
Writing Strategies
California Consortium for Independent Study

• Dr. Marilyn Brouette
• Briones School
• Martinez Unified School District

November 17, 2014
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PURPOSE OF PRESENTATION

• Review Common Core ELA Shifts
• Share Rhetorical Reading Strategies
• Highlighting
• Annotating
• Marginal Notes
• Present Strategies through guided practice with
  informational text
• Support strategies with Google Apps

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ELA COMMON CORE SHIFTS

• Build knowledge
• through content-rich
• nonfiction
• Read, write and speak citing evidence from 
• text, both literary and informational
• Comprehend complex text
• Use and understand academic language

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MEET THE COMMON CORE CHALLENGE

• Focus on informational text
• Consider text-based evidence, argument and
  critical thinking 
• Analyze complex text
• Integrate academic language

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DEMONSTRATE INDEPDENDENCE

• Build strong content knowledge
• Respond to audience, task, purpose, and
  discipline
• Comprehend and critique
• Value evidence
• Use technology and digital media

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RHETORICAL READING

• Highlighting Annotating - Marginal Notes
• Three active reading strategies that ask you to
  think and make decisions as you read

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HIGHLIGHTING TIPS

• Important passages 
• Names of people
• Unfamiliar vocabulary
• Quotable lines
• Key research, statistics facts
• Themes main ideas

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READING WITH PURPOSEANNOTATION

• GET COLLEGE READY WITH CLOSE READING

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ANNOTATION GUIDE

• Number the paragraphs
• Common Core standards require students to cite
  and refer to the text
• Number the paragraphs to facilitate this task.

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ANNOTATION SHORT HAND

•                                                  
                
• ? Question or unsure of meaning
• Important
• Quotable
• Info, statistic or research
• ___ New vocabulary

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MAKING NOTES IN MARGINS

• Write definitions
• Ask questions
• Translate ideas into your own words
• Capture emotional reactions

• Make connections
• other books, classes, life experiences
• Summarize
• Comment on ideas
• Predict what will happen

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READING STRATEGY

• Chunk the text
• Break up the text into smaller chunks.
• Draw a horizontal line between the introduction,
  body paragraphs and conclusion.
• Ask the student to justify the chunks.
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Read with Purpose

• Circle Key Terms
• Words that are defined
• Terms that are repeated throughout the
  text
• Names of sources
• Power verbs
• Figurative language

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WHAT DOES THE AUTHOR SAY?

• Summarize each chunk in the left margin.
• The chunking allows the student to look at the
  text in smaller segments and summarize what the
  author is saying.   

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RECORD YOUR THINKING

• Write brief summary notes to emphasize points
  made in graphics
• Write brief answers to your questions in the
  margins.
• Make a brief outline of the material in the
  margins.
• Summarize important points in your own words in
  the margins.
• State the CONCLUSION in your own words at the end
  of the article.
• Write Conclusion in the margin.

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WHAT IS THE AUTHOR DOING?

• In the right margin, describe what the author is
  doing.
• Use power verbs, such as describing,
  illustrating, arguing, etc.
• Represent the information with a picture
• Dig deeper into the text to analyze connections

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STEPS FOR MARKING A TEXT
Tech Twist Use Google Comment

• 1. Preview
• 2. Read
• 3. Determine authors purpose
• 4. Determine the topic
• 5. Determine the pattern of organization 6.
  Determine the main idea
• 7. Go back and mark the text

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GUIDED PRACTICE

• ANNOTATING Article
• If you want to go to college, learn to Fail
• 1. What is the topic of this article?
• 2. How is the article structured?
• 3. Why did the author write the article?
• 4. What is the most important point about the
  article?

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CHUNK THE TEXT
Introduction
What is the authors purpose?
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Body Paragraphs
Cite evidence the author uses to prove his
assertion
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CONCLUSION
What emotion does the author appeal to (pathos)?
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WANT TO GET TO COLLEGE?LEARN TO FAIL!
Pair Share Prediction What is the authors
purpose?

• Want to Get Into College? Learn to FailEducation
  Week, February 1, 2012By Angel B. PérezGenre
  Commentary
• 1 I ask every student I interview for admission
  to my institution, Pitzer College, the same
  question,
• What do you look forward to the most in
  college?
• I was stunned and delighted recently when a
  student
• sat across from me at a Starbucks in New York
  City and replied, I look forward to the
  possibility of failure. Of course, this is not
  how most students
• respond to the question when sitting before
  the person
• who can make decisions about their
  academic futures, but this young man took a
  risk.

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WANT TO GET TO COLLEGE?LEARN TO FAIL!
Pair Share Whose perspective is addressed?

• 2 You see, my parents have never let me fail,
  he said.
• When I want to take a chance at something,
  they remind me
• its not a safe route to take. Taking a more
  rigorous course or trying an activity
• I may not succeed in, they tell me, will
  ruin my chances at college admission.
• Even the sacrifice of staying up late to do
  something unrelated to school,
• they see as a risk to my academic work and
  college success.

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• Use Google Comments for annotation

Use Google Document Comments for annotation
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Google Tech Apps
Tech Tool Use/Purpose
Diigo https//www.diigo.com Annotate, highlight, create post-its, and make a library of sources for any internet website. Add to browser and annotate as you read online.
Notability (apple store) http//www.gingerlabs.com Digitally annotate, great for close-readings
Thinglink https//www.thinglink.com Add annotations, photos, videos to pictures
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Google Tech Apps
Tech Tool Use/Purpose
Skitch http//evernote.com/skitch/?utm_sourceinterspire Digital annotation An arrow for pointing things out, a text tool, rectangle you can surround objects with, a highlighter, a "pixelizer" for blurring out details, and a crop tool. 
Easel.ly http//www.easel.ly Infographic Maker
Infotopio http//www.infotopia.info Google powered source for student research
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Google Tech Apps
Tech Tool Use/Purpose
Mindmup https//www.mindmup.com Create mind maps and graphic organizers
Readability https//www.readability.com Unclutters webpages for easier reading
Awesome Screenshot http//awesomescreenshot.com Capture the screen and annotate, crop it, etc.
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REVIEW

• Presentation included
• Common Core ELA Shifts
• Rhetorical Reading Strategies
• Highlighting
• Annotating
• Marginal Notes
• Guided practice with informational text
• Google Apps

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Contact Information

• Dr. Marilyn Brouette
• Briones School
• mbrouette_at_martinez.k12.ca.us
• [phone] ext. 3884
• Thank you for your kind attention.
• Special Thanks to C.S.U. E.R.W.C. for
  permission to use the article Want to Get into
  College, Learn to Fail.