Monday,+July+11,+2011

=Monday, July 11, 2011=

=Meeting the Challenge of Nonfiction Texts=


 * __Session 1 Meeting the Challenges of Nonfiction Text__**

__Big Ideas Around Reading Nonfiction Text__

Students must have many opportunities to engage in a variety of text through thinking, talking, and writing about texts.

Students need different levels of support as they engage with texts in a variety of instructional contexts. These opportunities include whole group, small group and individual instruction.

Readers engage with text through listening, reading, talking and writing.

Students need to engage in three kinds of thinking in order to process a text with understanding: thinking within the text, thinking beyond the text.

__Thinking About Accessibility__

•What does the reader bring to the text?

•What does the text require of the reader? –Understandability…the writer accounts for:
 * The reader’s background knowledge
 * Concept and idea development
 * Language/syntax

–Learn ability…the text provides
 * Helpful organizational structure
 * Illustrations
 * Patterns
 * Concept repetition

__Visible & Invisible Information (//Teaching for Comprehending and Fluency// p. 13-31)__

•What are the major differences between visible and invisible information? •How are these two concepts helpful in gauging the demands of a text? •What would be important to help readers understand before reading a text? After reading a text?