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Narrative Text: can be a true or fictional story

story grammars (schemes): are available for dissecting a story into its parts.

-Focuses on areas like setting, characters, and plot

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increases understanding

strengthens language skills

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Enhances student understanding of a text, and builds their language/cognitive skills

Developmental levels consist of:

1. pretelling

2. guided retelling

3. written retelling

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1. Enumeration - description

2. Time sequence

3. Explanation - process

4. Comparison - contrast

5. Problem - solution

6. Cause - Effect

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CORE Model

connect

organize

reflect

extend

Graphic Organizers
Use as a postreading activity, to capitalize on content and structure

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Questions foster:

understanding

retention

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Taxonomy: An arrangement of skills form least demanding to those that require the highest mental powers

Remember

Understand

Apply

Analyze

Evaluate

Create

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Responsive Elaboration

Difficulty Making Inferences

Making Comparisons

Integrating Information

Prompting ELs

Think-Pair-Share

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This is a framework within which the teacher supplies assistance or guidance students need to successfully read a selection

Steps for Guided Reading:

1. Introduce the text

Experiential background or concepts

Critical vocabulary

Reading strategies

Purpose for reading

Interest or connection

1. Read the text

2. Discussion

3. Revisiting

4. Extend

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Directed Reading - Thinking Activity (DR - TA):

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Directed Reading - Thinking Activity (DR - TA):

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Designed to help students take responsibility of their own learning

Incorporates predict-read strategy:

1. setting purpose

2. obtaining information

3. keep goals in mind

4. keep personal feelings in bounds

5. consider options

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builds comprehension

forces reader to use semantic and syntactic clues with symbol-sound information to predict meaning

activates background knowledge

helps readers who are too focused on phonics and neglect context

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Critical reading:

affective/cognitive skill

reader must suspend judgment and consider other view points

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Examine how language is used

Key Strategy: decide whether words offer neutral descriptions, evaluations, or both

Understanding Factual Statements and Opinions

Analytical Statements

Recognizing the Authors Purpose and Point of View

Main purposes for writing:

1. Inform

2. Entertain

3. Persuade

Drawing Logical Conclusions

Inferencing

Finding Textual Evidence