On a hot sunny day in August, just as it has year after year after year

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On a hot sunny day in August, just as it has year
after year after year. The new school year
started
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Ahhh. the stories that can be shared
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So where does that leave the library, and
especially a librarian who loves to tell tales?
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But wait

• Theres still TAKS
• TEKS
• Collaboration

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Right in the thick of things - offering a window
on the world!
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Lets focus on the potential of storytelling
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• Figurative language and literary concepts (ELA)
• Organize structure appropriate to purpose,
  audience, and context (ELA 15.B)
• Determine a texts main (or major) ideas
  (Reading 8.10 4-8)
• Paraphrase and summarize text to recall, inform,
  or organize ideas (Reading 8.10 4-8)
• Identify point of view (Social Studies)
• .. just to name a few

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• Right now we are going to look at the TEKS that
  are tested on TAKS
• presented by objectives
• (just a little bit less overwhelming and probably
  more what the teachers want when we seek
  collaborating with them)

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TEA has posted an overview of TEKS tested on the
TAKS

• Third Grade
• Fourth Grade
• Eighth Grade
• Exit Level

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Common Phrasing to look for

• Literary elements
• Literary concepts
• Culturally diverse
• Narrative selections
• Listening and Speaking/Listening
• Paraphrase the major ideas
• Organized presentation
• Authors attitude or point of view
• Oral

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• Voice
• Style appropriate to audience
• Draw inferences
• Identify bias
• relationship between the arts and the times
  during which they were created
• create written, oral, and visual presentations
• Analyze information by
• sequencing, categorizing, identifying
  cause-and-effect relationships, comparing,
  contrasting, finding the main idea, summarizing,
  making generalizations and predictions, and
  drawing inferences and conclusions

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Lets look at ELA TEKS

• 3rd Grade
• Reading
• 4th Grade
• Writing
• 7th Grade
• Writing

• 8th Grade
• Reading
• 10th Grade
• Exit Level

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Science

• 5th Grade
• 8th Grade
• 10th Grade
• Exit Level

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Social Studies

• 8th Grade
• 10th Grade
• Exit Level

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Additional Resource

• Houston ISD Curriculum Glossary of Terms
• Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD Benchmark
  Blueprints 2007-2008
• New English Language Arts Reading TEKS for
  2009-2010
• Elem Middle School High School
• Storytelling Resources on the web
• Story Resources on the web

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This ppt is available atLibrary Media Center
Departments Mansfield Timberview High School

• Created for TLA March 2009
• By
• Jennifer Rike, MLS
• Teacher Librarian at Timberview HS
• rikeje_at_mansfieldisd.org