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• Presenters Elestine Smittick,
• Elementary Literacy Coordinator, ESC West

• Notice Note Informational Text

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Agenda

• Four Corners
• Informational vs. Non Fiction
• Common Core Standards- Informational Reading
• Learning Experience
• Administrators role
• Resources

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Four Corners

• Remembering Your Summer Break.
• Left the Country
• Staycation
• USA All the way
• I wish???

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We want students aware of what they are
discovering as they read. We want them to enjoy
that feeling of surprise, amazement, and even
skepticism. We want them to say, Really?.

• - Kylene Beers, author Notice Note

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• DID YOU KNOW?
• As adults, 95 of daily reading and writing is
  devoted to non-fiction or informational materials
  and tasks.
• Over 1.9 billion readers and writers are now on
  the Internet 96 of the sites on are expository
  in form.
• Futurists predict that by 2020 the amount of
  information will double every 73 days.
• Statistically, students are spending a range of
  7-15 of their reading time engaged with
  informational text.
• Common Core mandates a shift to 50/50
  informational text by fourth grade.

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Informational vs. Non-fiction

• What is the significant difference between
  Informational text and Non-fiction?
• Why does it matter?
• What did you read that added to or clarified your
  understanding?
• How might this impact teaching and learning?

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• Integrating Informational Text Into
• Literacy Routines

• Incorporate informational text daily
• Teach non-fiction reading strategies through high
  interest and relevant resources
• Read aloud non-fiction
• Think aloud as you read informational text,
  modeling
• Use diagrams and/or pictures to help students
  comprehend text
• Model using text features to add to comprehension

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• Lets Explore
• Common Core Standards
• for
• Informational Reading

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Planning Essential Question

• What might we do to help students notice
  something about the text that would cause them to
  go deeper into the text and into themselves?

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What should I consider as I plan ?

• Stage 1 Topic, Big Idea, Enduring
• Understanding
• What Makes a Strong Team?
• What can get do when we work in a
• team?
• Weekly Theme Helping Others
• Essential question Why is it a good
• idea to work together to solve
• problems?

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What should I consider as I plan ?

• Stage 2 Assessment Evidence
• Choose a topic related to cleaning up your
  community
• Decide on the best way to present your
  information
• Present their work to their peers or another
  group
• Stage 3 Learning Plan (WHERE TO)
• Selection title A Solution to Pollution
• Close Reading using TDQ Again and Again

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Notice and Note Signposts

• Contrasts and Contradictions
• Aha Moment
• Tough Questions
• Words of the Wiser
• Again and Again
• Memory Moment

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Again and Again

• Image, word, situation that is repeated
• learn more about the plot, the characters, the
  theme
• Might serve as a symbol
• Question Why does the author repeat the
  situation again and again?

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Learning Experience

• REAL WORLD READING
• A Solution to Pollution

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The Lesson

• Read A Solution to Pollution!
• Discuss with a partner how this story adds to the
  theme TEAMWORK
• How does it add to what we know about the
  importance of working in a team?
• How can teamwork benefit our community or
  environment?

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The Lesson

• Lets reread to go deeper. Consider the following
  questions
• What text features does the author use to help us
  understand the importance of working together to
  solve problems?

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The Lesson

• What were some of the Again and Again
  moments/situations the author used to help us
  notice the importance of working together to
  solve problems?
• What can we predict about the benefits of
  teamwork on a community?

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Leadership

• What systems can principals put in place to
  support teachers in the planning and teaching of
  the CCSS?

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Leadership

• What do the experts say
• According to School Leaders Guide to the Common
  Core
• Schools need TIME for collaboration!

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Leadership

• Lead by Example
• Provide Sound Professional Development
• (include Theory, Demonstration, Practice and
  Coaching)
• 3. Embrace PLCs

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Common Core Resources

• escwest.net
• Treasures Snap-ins resource books
• (grades 3-6)
• theteachingchannel.com
• (videos from Stacy Brewer and Jenna Ogier)
• smarterbalanced.org
• http//www.achievethecore.org
• School Site PD and Grade Level Planning