Numbered Heads Together
Reflections over Text Introductions
1. Teacher selects one student on each team to be the Showdown Captain for the first round.
2. The SC draws the top card, reads it, and provides think time
3. Working alone, all students, including the SC, write their answers.
4. When finished, teammates signal they're ready.
5. The SC calls, "Showdown".
6. Teammates show and discuss their answers.
7. The SC leads the checking.
8. If everyone agrees the card is placed under the correct heading.
Round Table.
The purpose for text introductions are...
Guided Instruction
Guided
Read Aloud leveled read at your table
Qualities of Text Introductions
Qualities of Text Introductions
A Text Intro. IS
A Text Intro. is NOT
A Text Intro. IS
Complete Text Factor Analysis for text
Build a Text Introduction based on what you find and with your students in mind
Pairs, Pair.
With your pair, do a Hand Up, Stand Up, Pair Up
Share text introduction with the other pair.
- Preparing students for reading
- Introducing the basic structure of the text
- Discussing how the book is 'put together'
- Teaching several vocabulary words and writing them all down
- Sets a purpose for reading
- An exact recipe
- Is best created by a publisher
- Preparing students for reading
- A picture walk
- Flipping to the back of the leveled reader and reading the skill and the highlighted words
- Very lengthy
- Stopping at each page
- Introducing the basic structure of the text
- Discussing how the book is 'put together'
- Teaching several vocabulary words and writing them all down
- Sets a purpose for reading
- An exact recipe
- Is best created by a publisher
- A picture walk
- Flipping to the back of the leveled reader and reading the skill and the highlighted words
- Very lengthy
- Stopping at each page
- Teaching several vocabulary words and writing them all down
Reflections
Activate Our Prior Knowledge
Think, Ink, Pair, Share
Round Robin.
Did she prepare students for reading?
Does she know her students as readers?
Was the text introduction successful?
Describe in your own words your understanding of what a text introduction is and its purposes.
Text Introductions in ACTION
Basic Parts of a Guided Reading Lesson
Modeled/Shared Instruction
Text Introduction Considerations
Text Introductions
Purpose of Text Introductions
Be listening for the components of Text Intro.
Potential Teaching Moves to Support Reading with Accuracy, Comprehension, and Fluency
Today we will...
Building an Intentional Text Introduction
- Is not a subject, but rather an instructional strategy
- Current method of differentiated instruction used by the Omaha Public Schools
- Every child, every day, time is the variable
- Read Aloud Swimming Across the Pool
- Complete Analyzing Text Factors
- Consider students, What are some teaching points you would incorporate in your Text Introduction?
Refine existing skills of building effective text introductions that are designed to meet the needs of your readers.
Before:
Text Introduction
Running Record
Word Work
During
Student Reading
Descriptive Feedback
After
Comprehension Conversation
Running Record
Word Work
- #1 Consideration: STUDENTS:
What do I already know about my students? What are their current strengths? What System of Strategic Actions do my students most need?
What kind of a text will best meet the needs of my student?
Analyze Text Factors
Meeting the unique needs of readers
- Active and/or provide needed background knowledge
- Invite students to share thinking
- Enable students to hear and sometimes say new language structures
- Have students say and sometime locate specific words in the text
- Help students make connections to present knowledge of texts, content, and experiences
- Reveal the structure of text
- Use new vocabulary words in conversation to reveal meaning
- Prompt students to make predictions based on the information reveal so far
- Draw attention to the writer's craft to support analysis
- Draw attention to accuracy or authenticity of the text-writer's credentials, references, or presentation of evident as appropriate
- Draw attention to illustrations-pictures, charts, graphs, maps, cutaways-and the information they present