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Nonfiction Matters Presentation Slides

This presentation explores classroom-ready strategies which build student's confidence and competence as they read, write, and seek to understand texts of information. Resources and implementation support materials are provided below.

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Nonfiction Matters Presentation Slides

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  1. Non-Fiction Matters:Teaching Students to Read and Understand Informational Text ©Angela Maiers, 2007 Presented by Angela Maiers, 2007

  2. For ALL students • to achieve at the highest • level and attain success in • any venture as learners, • workers, and citizens • of the twenty first century. ©Angela Maiers, 2007

  3. What do we know about the 21st Century World ? 95% of daily reading and writing will be 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 Only .01 percent of that information will be printed "How Much Information." School of Information Management & Systems. 2000. Regents of the University of California. 13 March, 2004. ©Angela Maiers, 2007

  4. Comprehension Comprehending ©Angela Maiers, 2007

  5. Nonfiction ©Angela Maiers, 2007

  6. Girls Like NF Too!!!! ©Angela Maiers, 2007

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  8. "Fake" Reading ©Angela Maiers, 2007

  9. Data on Nonfiction Reading 73% 3F/P levels below fiction 15% 3 GRADE LEVELS below fiction 6% Struggled with decoding (Boys/Girls) Stead, 2007 ©Angela Maiers, 2007

  10. What Makes Reading Nonfiction So Hard? ©Angela Maiers, 2007

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  12. What Makes NF Hard? • NOT FICTION!!!!! • BACKGROUND • VOCABULARY • STRATEGIES • MINDSET • PERSERVERANCE ©Angela Maiers, 2007

  13. Read Nonfiction Like Fiction! VS. ©Angela Maiers, 2007

  14. Read Nonfiction Like Fiction! VS. ©Angela Maiers, 2007

  15. Words! Words! Words! ©Angela Maiers, 2007

  16. Word Problem Solving • Context • Affixes-Prefix and Suffix • Bases/Core Words • Roots ©Angela Maiers, 2007

  17. introspective inspector perspective spectacles spect inspect inspection respect spectacular ©Angela Maiers, 2007

  18. photography paragraph autograph graphic bibliography autobiography graph ©Angela Maiers, 2007

  19. Background Knowledge Schema ©Angela Maiers, 2007

  20. Text Knowledge Teaching students how to recognize and represent the organizational patterns commonly used by authors can significantly influence students’ learning and comprehension. Palinstar, Ogle, Carr, 97 ©Angela Maiers, 2007

  21. Background Knowledge??? Warranty Warranty 100% LAW TEXT ©Angela Maiers, 2007

  22. The Grocery Store ©Angela Maiers, 2007

  23. Strategies Are Different! ©Angela Maiers, 2007

  24. Strategy Lessons for Nonfiction • Skimming or Previewing the Text • Scanning • Assessing the text through the index • Using heading ,captions, pictures,… • Determining what to read, order of reading • Noting organizational pattern • Deterring what to pay attention to • Determining what to ignore • What information fits with schema, what is new: how to sort it ©Angela Maiers, 2007

  25. 100% Rule Focus Stamina Speed/Rate Self-Monitor Concentration Attention ©Angela Maiers, 2007

  26. Planning For Instruction ©Angela Maiers, 2007

  27. Strategy Lessons for Nonfiction • Skimming or Previewing the Text • Scanning • Assessing the text through the index • Using heading ,captions, pictures,… • Determining what to read, order of reading • Noting organizational pattern • Deterring what to pay attention to • Determining what to ignore • What information fits with schema, what is new: how to sort it ©Angela Maiers, 2007

  28. Text Survey What do you expect to be reading about? What words/vocabulary do you anticipate to learn? ©Angela Maiers, 2007

  29. Roundtable Alphabet 1960’s ©Angela Maiers, 2007

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  31. Content Bibliography • I See What You Mean by Steve Moline • Nonfiction in the Primary Years by Nell Duke • Teaching Non-Fiction 2-4 and 4-8 Scholastic Prof. Books • Nonfiction Matters by Stephanie Harvey • Nonfiction in Focus by Kristo and Bamford • Text Forms and Features by Margaret Mooney • Make It Real by Linda Hoyt • Informational Text by Margaret Mooney and Linda Hoyt • Reading and Writing in Multiple Genre by Byers • Picture Story Books to Teach Literary Devices by Susan Hill ©Angela Maiers, 2007

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