Class+Notes

= Here are class notes and PowerPoint slides! = Fall 2011 slides begin at the top of the page. (I have kept other PPTs up even if we're not using them. You may find them helpful!)

Class notes from group work with charts

 * Reader || Text || Task/Activity || Context || Teacher/Teaching ||
 * * experience
 * age
 * interests
 * language
 * motivation
 * distractions
 * mood
 * maturity
 * SES
 * home life
 * gender
 * emotionality
 * personal goals
 * reading skills
 * grade
 * patience
 * LD
 * ethnicity
 * peers || * vocabulary
 * difficulty
 * length
 * pictures
 * availability
 * dialect
 * genre
 * popularity
 * font size
 * format
 * book size
 * grammar
 * age appro
 * type
 * relatability || * excitement level
 * engagement
 * age-appro
 * difficulty
 * how presented
 * indiv vs. group
 * time given
 * type (read/write)
 * skills needed
 * choice
 * physical set up
 * learning style
 * hands-on
 * purpose
 * in-class/outside || * setting
 * time of day
 * class rules
 * school location
 * school demo
 * families
 * experiences
 * peers
 * class set up
 * culture
 * language
 * class size
 * resources
 * diversity || * Variety of activities
 * teaching strategies
 * enthusiasm
 * preparation
 * experience
 * patience
 * ability to connect with students
 * teaching theories
 * expectations
 * metacognitive
 * own understanding
 * determined re struggling
 * pronunciation
 * creativity
 * flexibility ||

Pre-Reading/Launching a text
Long intro to [|Stellaluna], Reading Rainbow [|True Story of Three Little Pigs], courthouse setting [|Mrs. Katz and Tush], Reading Rainbow

Text Difficulty
Class Ideas: Vocabulary (difficulty--content words) Font (size) Content (science vs. narrative) Number of pages Pictures (present, how many, size) Organization (chapters, headings) Sentence structure (predictability) Number of words on page complexity of plot/text

More on Text Analysis [[file:Readability Levels FA2011.ppt]]
[|Lexile overview]

Leveling information
....[|Lexile grade ranges] ....[|Guided Reading/Reading Recovery/Reading A-Z levels and grades]

Text Level Calculations
....Lexile ........[|Find a book] based on lexile range ........Figure out the [|lexile range] of something you wrote or of a digitized text! ....[|Scholastic] [|....A-Z leveling]

[[file:Inferring 423 Deeney.ppt]]
half of this

Metacognition: What Did You Do While Reading?
Background knowledge re: prism rainbows are pretty building info as you go confusion/clarification experiment proven correct--main idea I wonder... Why... Questioning visualizing asking questions to set purpose/find info later I learned it from Chemistry Skepticism (Is this true?) || questions how does this relate/connect? how I feel visualizing coyote hunting problem solve--the ideas don't hang together, so I'll make them real/fiction (name capitalized) Questioning/set purpose making inferences re: characters (woman vs. man) making predictions making assumptions/translating text what will happen next genre (is this a myth?) identify what characters are going through (sadness, etc.) ||
 * RAINBOWS || COYOTES ||
 * past experiences (ROYGBIV)

Tuesday, November 8: Teaching Comprehension through Text-Based Discussions
Lack of planning results in poor discussions!

[|TTMM link]