Synthesizing one working system

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Synthesizing one working system?

• Joe Cloutier, FLaRE Coordinator
• Florida Literacy and Reading Excellence Center
• University of Central Florida

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Thinking ahead

• 5 or 6 words listed on the board
• How are the words connected?
• Challenge figure out the connection
• Remember, there are no wrong answers

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Sharing

• Opportunity to talk
• Talk is academic in nature
• Specific time limit
• Sharing is limited to those in front of, behind,
  on the left or right of student
• Group sharing of the willing

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Read Aloud of Select Text

• This is where the 5 to 6 board words originated
• Model, model, model
• Explicit teaching
• Practice with easy-to-read text first

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Choosing Text

• Jerry Spinelli
• Stargirl , 2000

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Determine whats important

• Must happen before one can summarize the text
• Variety of methods
• Graphic organizers
• Underlining
• Sticky notes
• Key words
• other ways?

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During Reading

• Proficient readers attend more directly to text
  elements and patterns.
• Character, setting, conflict, sequence of events,
  resolution and theme in fiction.
• Description, chronological order, cause effect,
  comparison/contrast, and problem/solution in
  non-fiction.

Keene Zimmerman, 1997, p. 184 Mosaic of
Thought Teaching Comprehension in a Readers
Workshop
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After Reading

• Proficient readers are able to express what they
  read.
• We must draw out this expression in struggling
  readers.
• Syntheses are an amalgam of all comprehension
  strategies.
• There is no single synthesis strategy.

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Thoughts on Summarizing

• Clear
• Concise

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From Fiction to Non-fiction

• Scaffold students by
• Modeling
• Working with fictional text
• Moving to non-fictional text
• Support the student throughout the process as
  needed!

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Think About

• How what you have seen can be used in your
  classroom.

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• Questions
• Comments
• Concerns

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FLaRE website http//flare.ucf.edu

• Joe Cloutier, FLaRE Coordinator
• Florida Literacy and Reading Excellence
• University of Central Florida
• [phone]
• jcloutie_at_mail.ucf.edu