Mentor Text by Mary Black https://padlet.com/mary_black4/iajp00rd5yk8 Made with ♥ en-us 2016-11-30 01:39:09 UTC 2016-12-07 14:07:00 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Templeball.png Share your thoughts from your reading and any questions concerning mentor texts. mary_black4 https://padlet.com/mary_black4/iajp00rd5yk8/wish/140823330 2016-11-30 14:51:00 UTC https://padlet.com/mary_black4/iajp00rd5yk8/wish/140823330 C https://padlet.com/mary_black4/iajp00rd5yk8/wish/140824837 Mentor texts allow students to see the love of reading in an authentic environment! Questions can be hard, but if you read with the students they become the teachable moments!]]> 2016-11-30 14:54:35 UTC https://padlet.com/mary_black4/iajp00rd5yk8/wish/140824837 https://padlet.com/mary_black4/iajp00rd5yk8/wish/140824847 2016-11-30 14:54:36 UTC https://padlet.com/mary_black4/iajp00rd5yk8/wish/140824847 Educational Leadership Close Reading informed how to dig deeper by asking not only "why" or how" but "how do you think the character felt?" or what do you think the author meant by using that word or picture. https://padlet.com/mary_black4/iajp00rd5yk8/wish/140825241 2016-11-30 14:55:32 UTC https://padlet.com/mary_black4/iajp00rd5yk8/wish/140825241 Text dependent questions require that students have actually read the text. However, the text should be complex and worthy of close reading. When you find that text, students can make connections with it, therefore they take it and go deeper with it-it means something to them. Then you can continue to come back to it and use it for different purposes. https://padlet.com/mary_black4/iajp00rd5yk8/wish/140825467 2016-11-30 14:56:06 UTC https://padlet.com/mary_black4/iajp00rd5yk8/wish/140825467 QAR, Use "Read to find out" questions to prepare them for reading the text, making connections to their reading with mentor text https://padlet.com/mary_black4/iajp00rd5yk8/wish/140825616 2016-11-30 14:56:23 UTC https://padlet.com/mary_black4/iajp00rd5yk8/wish/140825616 Close reading helps them engage with the text more then I feel I can go to the more complex or deeper questions and they do even better https://padlet.com/mary_black4/iajp00rd5yk8/wish/140827165 2016-11-30 15:00:00 UTC https://padlet.com/mary_black4/iajp00rd5yk8/wish/140827165 You can use mentor text in any subject area. Using the mentor text allows you to ask basic recall questions, but more importantly you can create conceptual questions that require students to read the text closer in order to come up with more valuable and cognitive answers. https://padlet.com/mary_black4/iajp00rd5yk8/wish/140830693 2016-11-30 15:08:44 UTC https://padlet.com/mary_black4/iajp00rd5yk8/wish/140830693 The type of questions we use is very important. Make sure to use powerful and meaningful type of questions. https://padlet.com/mary_black4/iajp00rd5yk8/wish/140831207 2016-11-30 15:09:49 UTC https://padlet.com/mary_black4/iajp00rd5yk8/wish/140831207 Mentor Texts are enriching tools that aid your instruction. They provide the students a chance to dig deeper, and grasp a better understanding of the topics being discussed. https://padlet.com/mary_black4/iajp00rd5yk8/wish/140832347 Close reading helps our students to think outside the box, and help make reading more purposeful to them.]]> 2016-11-30 15:12:22 UTC https://padlet.com/mary_black4/iajp00rd5yk8/wish/140832347 I feel the use of close reading empowers our students to become better thinkers and problem solvers. It helps them relate their reading to a purpose that involves more than a few vocabulary words and comprehension questions that answer "who, what, when,... https://padlet.com/mary_black4/iajp00rd5yk8/wish/140833064 My only question at this point about mentor texts is how do we collaborate and determine which mentor texts are to be used in various grades? If K, 1st, 2nd would use the same mentor text all three years will it be as powerful in second grade as it may have been in kindergarten?]]> 2016-11-30 15:13:43 UTC https://padlet.com/mary_black4/iajp00rd5yk8/wish/140833064 Mentor texts are a great thing for students to see during writing too. You are able to show them real writing and what it looks like in text. This is a good example of what they can do in their own writing. Close reading is digging deeper and teaching students to ask themselves questions while they are reading to themselves. Close reading will help the students to be more independent. https://padlet.com/mary_black4/iajp00rd5yk8/wish/140932295 2016-11-30 19:08:57 UTC https://padlet.com/mary_black4/iajp00rd5yk8/wish/140932295 The "right" Mentor Text can be so powerful and engaging to the students but it has to be carefully looked at by the teacher and have a purpose. Close reading is really analyzing the text and focusing on significant details. It can help the students become more independent if they can transfer what they learned from close read to their text that they are reading. https://padlet.com/mary_black4/iajp00rd5yk8/wish/140950649


]]> 2016-11-30 19:56:52 UTC https://padlet.com/mary_black4/iajp00rd5yk8/wish/140950649 https://padlet.com/mary_black4/iajp00rd5yk8/wish/140954147 Asking deeper questions really helps to improve students understanding of the text. I liked the term "ho-hum" questions. The article gave good examples of both good and poor questions. The part about using shorter text to work on comprehension was powerful to me, especially as the students get into the higher level text and most books are chapter books. ]]> 2016-11-30 20:07:53 UTC https://padlet.com/mary_black4/iajp00rd5yk8/wish/140954147 Taking a closer look at close reading: Using the workshop framework during whole group reading, making sure you are asking text dependent questions. Also, are your questions requiring the students to use their higher order think and are they able to differentiate answers based on their personal experiences? These things will allow students to take ownership in the lesson. Get your students used to the questions you are asking so they are asking themselves those same questions during small group and eventually during independent reading time (could be a anchor chart). Questions can be taught explicitly through mentor texts over time. https://padlet.com/mary_black4/iajp00rd5yk8/wish/141003722 2016-12-01 02:48:15 UTC https://padlet.com/mary_black4/iajp00rd5yk8/wish/141003722 Text-dependent questions can lead students to discover something they may have missed the first time they read a text. They can also promote deeper discussions and give students a better understanding of what was read. Using mentor texts to teach students about how to use/answer text-dependent questions is a great stepping stone for more complex text. https://padlet.com/mary_black4/iajp00rd5yk8/wish/141004067 2016-12-01 02:53:20 UTC https://padlet.com/mary_black4/iajp00rd5yk8/wish/141004067 https://padlet.com/mary_black4/iajp00rd5yk8/wish/141004354 2016-12-01 02:59:34 UTC https://padlet.com/mary_black4/iajp00rd5yk8/wish/141004354 https://padlet.com/mary_black4/iajp00rd5yk8/wish/141004355 2016-12-01 02:59:34 UTC https://padlet.com/mary_black4/iajp00rd5yk8/wish/141004355 https://padlet.com/mary_black4/iajp00rd5yk8/wish/141004356 Proper use of mentor texts and the use of the workshop framework definitely helps "to build the habits of mind that will lead all students to deep understanding of text." We can use mentor texts to help students to make connections and to work on applying newly-learned information in multiple situations.]]> 2016-12-01 02:59:34 UTC https://padlet.com/mary_black4/iajp00rd5yk8/wish/141004356 "Teaching is about transfer https://padlet.com/mary_black4/iajp00rd5yk8/wish/141005063 2016-12-01 03:11:15 UTC https://padlet.com/mary_black4/iajp00rd5yk8/wish/141005063 "Teaching is about transfer." https://padlet.com/mary_black4/iajp00rd5yk8/wish/141005064 What a powerful statement!]]> 2016-12-01 03:11:16 UTC https://padlet.com/mary_black4/iajp00rd5yk8/wish/141005064 Close Reading lets the students explore deeper into their reading beyond the point of just reading for comprehension. It opens their mind up to explore open ended questions presented by the teacher and come up with questions of their own. (to think beyond the book) When presented to the students right way our students should progress and learn to think about things at a higher level. https://padlet.com/mary_black4/iajp00rd5yk8/wish/141007714 2016-12-01 03:48:47 UTC https://padlet.com/mary_black4/iajp00rd5yk8/wish/141007714