teaching reading/lit presentation

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presentation: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10wcARHPFog7GW9Hg2K_b4GLgrUBf1YJy2JtusDnuzVI/edit?usp=sharing

Diving Deep Into Non-fiction by Jeffree D. Wilhelm & Michael W. Smith

Description: This text focuses on the teaching and learning of nonfiction texts and delivers teaching framework for teachers to transfer tools for reading any nonfiction text to students. This text has strategies to teach students to be powerful readers, “who know both how authors signal what’s worth noticing in a text and how readers connect and make meaning of what they have noticed…” Jeffree Wilhelm has been a school teacher for over 15 years and currently teaches English Education at Boise State University, and Michael Smith is a former high school teacher and currently a professor at Temple State University.

Chapter 1: Reader’s Rules of Notice
What skilled readers do
What this noticing means for teachers
Principles of effective instruction
The current educational climate
How the book works
How to use the book
Chapter 2: Noticing the Conversation
7 lesson plans that help students notice the conceptual conversation of which the text is a part.
Chapter 3: Noticing Key Details
7 lessons on noticing key details
Chapter 4: Noticing Varied Nonfiction Genres
7 lessons on noticing and making meaning based on genre.
Chapter 5: Noticing the Text Structures in Nonfiction Texts
7 lessons on noticing and making meaning based on text structure, with an emphasis on comparison and contrast.
Chapter 6: Why this Method Works
Motivating deep learning
Developing cultural, critical, and identity literacies
A final word

Why this text:
I prefer fiction rather than nonfiction so I thought this could help me learn more about nonfiction novels/informational texts and how to integrate them in the classroom.
A ton of lesson plans to use in your classroom.
Written by teachers for teachers.
Teaching ideas:
Lesson plan page 35 (handout 2.4)
Lesson plan page 113
Lesson plan 125

Challenges:
Getting students motivated to read nonfiction texts.
Some students are better readers than others, no student can be a perfect or “expert” reader.
Overall a hard read.

More:
http://resources.corwin.com/divingdeep-nonfiction

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