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What do you think you know about...? Two activities for helping students read, write, and comprehend non-fiction in the classroom Anne Weisenberg aweisenberg@csustan.edu. Nonfiction. Why don't we just call it life! Tomie dePaola. Reading and analyzing non-fiction text.

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Nonfiction

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  1. What do you think you know about...?Two activities for helping students read, write, and comprehend non-fiction in the classroomAnne Weisenbergaweisenberg@csustan.edu

  2. Nonfiction • Why don't we just call it life! • Tomie dePaola

  3. Reading and analyzing non-fiction text • A modified KWL with RAN • K- what they know • W- what they want to learn • L- what I learned

  4. Benefits of a RAN • Develops literal understandings • Makes distinctions between “what we think we know” and actual information from text. • Leads to “wonderings”. • Multiple exposures strengthens literal understandings • Develops interpretive understandings by making connections. • Develops evaluative understandings by questioning the validity of different sources.

  5. What do you think you know about... • Naked mole rats?

  6. Think-pair-share • Record information on post-it notes • Add to chart • Read and view visual literacy to confirm prior knowledge

  7. Reading for a purpose • To confirm prior knowledge • To learn new information • To determine misconceptions • To pose questions

  8. What can this lead to? • Independent reading/ research • Other research opportunities • How can you use it in your grade level?

  9. Shared Reading • Using non-fiction text • A great way to integrate science, social studies , and math into the ELA

  10. Lesson example

  11. Life cycle of a frog

  12. What can you do? • Use a variety of text structures; exposition, argument/persuasion, and procedural • Questions?

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