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When I was Young and In the Mountains by Jane Yolen

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After the Fall by Dan Santat
The Girl Who Ran by Frances Poletti
Drawn Together by Dan Santat
Ish by Peter Reynolds
Each Kindness

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The Other Side - Jacqueline Woodson
Each Kindess - Jacqueline Woodson
Owen by Kevin Henkes
The Keeping Quilt - Patricia Polacco
The Bad Seed by Jory John
Read the Book, Lemmings by Ame Dykeman
"I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg makes her mark" by Debbie Levy

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What do You Do With an Idea by Kobi Yomada
Three Questions by John Muth

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Each Kindness
Knots on a Counting Rope by Bill Martin Jr.

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Picture Books for Notice and Note Signposts

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Picture Books for Notice and Note Signposts

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Those of you who have read my previous posts know that I am a huge fan of Notice and Note by Kylene Beers and Bob Probst. I started using it in my sixth grade English classes and saw levels of analysis I had never achieved when using traditional methods of close reading. Their concrete, user-friendly strategy made even the most difficult texts accessible to all.

For the last two years, I have used a combination of the examples given in the book and short stories to teach each signpost before we applied them to whole class novels. (See previous posts.) This year, I decided to add picture books and video clips to the mix. Because my classes are only 45 minutes long and I have to teach all of ELA in that time, I don't use as many books and videos and I would like (or as are available), but the addition of these two things made the signposts even more valuable to my class. They had no trouble finding them when we read our first novel, Walk Two Moons.

Below are the resources I used this year. I always began and ended with a short story and showed the video and read the picture books in between. After we had learned all of them, I had them search in my many picture books for more.

(NOTES: I currently teach at an all-girls' school, so the short stories reflect that. See my previous posts for more examples of stories to use. There are also numerous other picture books that have great examples of signposts. Also, I purchased the Pixar shorts DVDs.)

CONTRASTS AND CONTRADICTIONS

Short Stories

Picture Books

Video Clip

WORDS OF THE WISER

Short Stories

Tuesday of the Other June by Norma Fox Mazer

Who Are You Today, Maria? by Judith Ortiz Cofer

Flowers and Freckle Cream by Elizabeth Ellis

Picture Books

Video Clips

A-HA MOMENT

Short Stories

Picture Books

Video Clips

AGAIN AND AGAIN

Short Stories

Picture Books

Video Clips

MEMORY MOMENT

Short Story

My Grandmother's Hair by Cynthia Rylant

Picture Books

Aunt Flossie's Hats (and Crab Cakes Later) by Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard

Video Clip

Time Travel Mater - Pixar Shorts vol 2

TOUGH QUESTIONS

Short Story

Picture Books

Video Clip

Many of the other Pixar shorts would be great to use as well, but in the interest of time, these are all I had the opportunity to use this year.

For example:

Presto for AGAIN AND AGAIN

For the Birds for A-HA MOMENT

George and AJ for CONTRASTS AND CONTRADICTIONS

There are also numerous collections of award-winning shorts available on YouTube.

My goals for next summer are to find some more animated shorts and also add in songs, poetry, and art. I am also going to ask the students to find some examples of these themselves this spring when we do more literary analysis.

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Short Stories, Picture Books, and Video Clips for Notice and Note

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Fox by Margaret Wild
The Other Side - Jacqueline Woodson
Each Kindess - Jacqueline Woodson
Tough Times - Barbara Shook Hazen
The True Story of the Three Little Pigs - Jon Scieszka
The Good-Bye Book - Judith Viorst
Little Mouse's Big Book of Fears - Emily Gravett
Boodil my Dog- Pija Lindenbaum
Stellaluna - Jannelle Cannon
Red, a Crayon's Story- Michael Hall
The Girl Who Never Made Mistakes- Mark Pett and Gary Rubinstein
The Bad Seed by Jory John

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Heinemann | Notice and Note, Strategies for Close Reading

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Notice and Note, Strategies for Close Reading by Kylene Beers and Robert Probst. Heinemann Publishing.

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The Lion King - Hakuna Matata (HD).Tangled - Realization.The Fox and the Hound (1981) - Best of Friends.Rudy (4/8) Movie CLIP - Fortune's Truth (1993) HD.Mulan - Reflection.Toy Story 3 Lotso's Story.lion king - remember who you are (HD).Elf (1/5) Movie CLIP - Buddy Realizes He's Human (2003) HD.Poor Unfortunate Souls - The Little Mermaid.Disney's Big Hero 6 Short Film -

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Great Picture Books to Use for Notice and Note – All Signposts

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Yesterday I posted my final picture book post for all of the signposts in the amazing book Notice and Note: Strategies for Close Reading by Kylene Beers and Robert Probst. It has truly been aweso…

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Strategies for Close Reading

Notice and Note by Kylene Beers and Bob Probst introduces 6 "signposts" to help students read closely, encouraging them to explore the text and find evidence to support their interpretations.

The book provides text-dependent anchor questions and model lessons to help teachers introduce each signpost. It's a practical guide to help create attentive readers who interpret text responsibly and reflect on its meaning in their lives.

"Just as rigor does not reside in the barbell but in the act of lifting it, rigor in reading is not an attribute of a text but rather of a reader's behavior-engaged, observant, responsive, questioning, analytical. The close reading strategies in Notice and Note will help you cultivate those critical reading habits that will make your students more attentive, thoughtful, independent readers."

-Kylene Beers and Robert E. Probst

Also available: Notice & Note/Reading Nonfiction Signpost Student Bookmarks
Notice and Note Book Club Facebook Page
In Notice and Note Kylene Beers and Bob Probst introduce 6 "signposts" that alert readers to significant moments in a work of literature and encourage students to read closely. Learning first to spot these signposts and then to question them, enables readers to explore the text, any text, finding evidence to support their interpretations. In short, these close reading strategies will help your students to notice and note.

In this timely and practical guide Kylene and Bob:

examine the new emphasis on text-dependent questions, rigor, text complexity, and what it means to be literate in the 21st century

identify 6 signposts that help readers understand and respond to character development, conflict, point of view, and theme

provide 6 text-dependent anchor questions that help readers take note and read more closely

offer 6 Notice and Note model lessons, including text selections and teaching tools, that help you introduce each signpost to your students.

Notice and Note will help create attentive readers who look closely at a text, interpret it responsibly, and reflect on what it means in their lives. It should help them become the responsive, rigorous, independent readers we not only want students to be but know our democracy demands.

A newNotice and Note Literature Log offers students practice finding the signposts-with over-the-shoulder coaching from Kylene and Bob. Save with 5-packs.

(click any section below to continue reading)

Contents

Part I, The Questions We Pondered, shares our thinking about some critical topics of today. Because our thinking about these topics mostly took the form of questions we asked of one another, we decided to present this section as a series of questions and our answers. Our answers, tentative as they are, may help you understand the thinking that guided our development of the Notice and Note Signposts. Also in Part I you'll see sections labeled "What you might wonder about." These are additional questions we thought you and others in your own learning community might want to discuss. See these questions as starting points for rich conversations about literacy education in your own classroom and your own school.
Part II, The Signposts We Found, explains the Notice and Note Signposts, the role of generalizable language, and the anchor question that accompanies each signpost.
Part III, The Lessons We Teach, provides model lessons for teaching the Signposts. This is our language and we don't expect it to work for you or your students until you've put it in your own words, but it will give you a start, a place to begin.
We hope that Notice and Note: Strategies for Close Reading will help students come to enjoy the pleasures of reading attentively and responsively. They will need you to put the right books in their hands, books in which they can get lost and books in which they can find themselves. And they'll need you, and other teachers like you, to invite them into the conversations that will transform them into the close and thoughtful readers whose entire lives will be enriched by books.

Part I: The Questions We Pondered
1. Is reading still reading?
2. And what is the role of fiction?
3. Where does rigor fit in with this discussion of reading?
4. What do we mean by intellectual communities?
5. What is the role of talk in creating intellectual communities?
6. Do text-dependent questions foster engagement?
7. What is "Close Reading?"
8. To talk about novels do we all need to be reading the same book?
9. As I'm choosing novels, don't the CCSS say novels must be harder, be more complex?
10. And one final question: Are we creating lifetime learners?

Part II: The Signposts We Found
1. The Notice and Note Signposts
2. Defining the Notice and Note Signposts
3. The Anchor Question for each Signpost
4. The Role of Generalizable Language in Teaching these Lessons
5. The Generalizable Language We Use for Each Signpost
6. Explaining the Signposts to Students
7. Assessment and the Notice and Note Signposts
8. Some Questions You Might Have

Part III The Lessons We Teach
1. Contrasts and Contradictions
2. The Aha Moment
3. Tough Questions
4. Words of the Wiser
5. Again and Again
6. Memory Moment

1.Student Survey on Discussions2. Rigor and Talk Checklist
3. Huswifery
4. Text complexity worksheet
5. Notice and Note Bookmark
6. Texts for teaching the Notice and Note Lessons

Companion Resources

Reviews

"Exceptionally well written, organized, and presented...very highly recommended."
-Susan Bethany, Midwest Book Review

Reviews from educators like you...

"This is the missing link. While the Common Core State Standards require students to read complex texts, read closely, and answer text-dependent questions, nothing shows us how to help students do all that during independent reading-nothing until Notice and Note came along. Kylene and Bob show us how we can attend to the demands of the CCSS and support engaged, attentive, independent readers."
-Darl Kiernan, PhD., literacy trainer, Northwest Regional Professional Development, NV

"As Bob and Kylene taught their Notice & Note lessons I watched our students become engaged and excited about reading. Students scoured the text to find support for their thinking, and struggling readers succeeded with texts that would have otherwise been discarded as too hard. Don't buy just one of these books-buy one for every teacher in your building!"
-Margaret Ruppert, literacy specialist, Akron Public Schools, Akron, OH

"Bob and Kylene shared these lessons in my class of eighth graders. When my students began to notice the signposts and ask the accompanying anchor questions, navigating a text became possible even for my struggling readers, and the text became something they not only deeply understood but also enjoyed."
-Jennifer Ochoa, middle school teacher, MS 324, New York City, NY

" Notice & Note will help you foster rigorous reading and high-level thinking while honoring your students' need to interact with what they read. Kylene and Bob forge connections between new academic standards and decades of reading research through commonsense strategies that encourage collaboration and engaged reading. This book is well worth noticing and noting."
-Donalyn Miller, author of The Book Whisperer and a grade 4 teacher, Ft. Worth, TX

"As Kylene and Bob taught their Notice & Note lessons at Chicago Shakespeare, I watched a room of teachers get curious, slightly anxious, and then completely enthusiastic about these new avenues for approaching literacy in their urban classrooms. Kylene and Bob understand research and real classrooms, which is why their work continues to be essential."
-Marilyn Halperin, Director of Education, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, IL

"Teaching students to respond to complex texts is a critical aspect of implementing the Common Core State Standards. When I use Notice & Note lessons in my professional development sessions, teachers invariably go deeper into long familiar texts. These strategies awaken our critical eye and direct us to explore text elements that we might otherwise ignore. Notice and Note strategies will improve how your students analyze and respond to any text."
-Patsy Dunton, ELA Specialist, Maine DOE

"As much as I love Beers and Probst's concept of signposts and anchor questions, I think my favorite part of Notice & Note is their section on "Letting Students Create Text-Dependent Questions." With a few simple steps, they demonstrate how to teach students to ask questions about texts to drive comprehension and learning. I love this approach because it makes texts accessible to everyone-after all, we can all think of questions as we read-but more importantly, it signals the importance of INQUIRY in learning and ENCOURAGES students to ask questions while reading, which is, in fact, what good readers do. This book makes a vital contribution to the ongoing discussion about how to help students become stronger readers."
-Sarah Tantillo, author of The Literacy Cookbook

Read the entire review at Only Good Books

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Notice and Note by Kylene Beers and Bob Probst introduces six "signposts" to help readers identify significant moments in a work of literature and read closely. This practical guide offers six model lessons and anchor questions to help students become independent, attentive, and thoughtful readers.