Friday, January 4, 2013

SHIFT HAPPENS

6  Instructional Shifts

1. Text Complexity Standards:  reading, writing, & speaking

2. Nonfiction and Fiction balance  K-5  ;   Nonfiction tips the scales 6-12.

3. Greater Emphasis on Knowledge in the Disciplines:  6-12

4. Close Reading: Understanding and Inferring author's point of view, Author's use of Text features and organizational styles to promote POV. College/Career Readiness depend on annotating and thinking while reading.

 CLOSE READING & ANNOTATING WHILE READING:  <-----CLICK THERE.

5. More Writing From Sources... Expository, Argumentative, Narrative:  Inference Wheel, Summarizing, Quoting, drawing text evidence, etc.  Thinkquiry Toolkit
 ANALYZING TEXT LESSON:  <-----CLICK THERE.

6. Academic and Content Vocabulary: Tier 2 & Tier 3 words
  Word Clouds: Science Lesson:  <-----CLICK THERE.

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