Nonfiction Matters Presentation Slides

©Angela Maiers, 2007

Non-Fiction Matters:Teaching Students to Read and Understand Informational Text

Presented by Angela Maiers, 2007


For ALL students to achieve at the highest level and attain success in any venture as learners,

workers, and citizens of the twenty first

century.


What do we know about the 21st Century World ?

95% of daily reading and writing will be devoted to non-fiction or informational materials and tasks

Over 1.9 billion readers and writers are now on the Internet; 96% of the sites on are expository in form

Futurists predict that by 2020 the amount of information will double every 73 days

Only .01 percent of that information will be printed

"How Much Information." School of Information Management & Systems. 2000. Regents of the University of California. 13 March, 2004.




Girls Like NF Too!!!!

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Data on Nonfiction Reading

73% 3F/P levels below fiction

15% 3 GRADE LEVELS below fiction

6% Struggled with decoding (Boys/Girls)

Stead, 2007



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What Makes NF Hard? NOT FICTION!!!!!

BACKGROUND

VOCABULARY

STRATEGIES

MINDSET

PERSERVERANCE


Read Nonfiction Like Fiction!

VS.


Read Nonfiction Like Fiction!

VS.



Word Problem Solving

1.Context

2.Affixes-Prefix and Suffix

3.Bases/Core Words

4.Roots


spect inspect

perspective

introspective

spectacles

spectacular

respectinspection

inspector


graph

bibliography

autograph paragraphphotography

graphic

autobiography


Schema


Text Knowledge

Teaching students how to recognize and represent the

organizational patterns commonly used by authors can significantly influence

students’ learning and comprehension.

Palinstar, Ogle, Carr, 97


Background Knowledge???

WarrantyWarranty


The Grocery Store



Strategy Lessons for Nonfiction• Skimming or Previewing the Text • Scanning• Assessing the text through the index• Using heading ,captions, pictures,…• Determining what to read, order of reading• Noting organizational pattern• Deterring what to pay attention to• Determining what to ignore• What information fits with schema, what is

new: how to sort it


100% Rule100% RuleFocu

s Stamina

Attention Concentration

Speed/Rate

Self-Monito

r


Planning For Instruction

Driving Reading

Before

During

After


Strategy Lessons for Nonfiction• Skimming or Previewing the Text • Scanning• Assessing the text through the index• Using heading ,captions, pictures,…• Determining what to read, order of reading• Noting organizational pattern• Deterring what to pay attention to• Determining what to ignore• What information fits with schema, what is

new: how to sort it


Text SurveyHeading/Subheading Visuals Text Support Questions/Predictions

What do you expect to be reading about?

What words/vocabulary do you anticipate to learn?


Roundtable Alphabet 1960’s

AApollo

BBeatles

CCivil Rights

DDrugs

EEasy Rider

FFlag Burning

G

HHippies

I JJimi Hendrix

KKennedy

LLong Hair

MMoon Walk

NNixon

O PProtests

Q RRock Music

SSexual Revolution

T U

VVietnam

WWoodstock

X Y ZMao Zedong



Content Bibliography I See What You Mean by Steve Moline Nonfiction in the Primary Years by Nell Duke Teaching Non-Fiction 2-4 and 4-8 Scholastic Prof. Books Nonfiction Matters by Stephanie Harvey Nonfiction in Focus by Kristo and Bamford Text Forms and Features by Margaret Mooney Make It Real by Linda Hoyt Informational Text by Margaret Mooney and Linda Hoyt Reading and Writing in Multiple Genre by Byers Picture Story Books to Teach Literary Devices by Susan Hill

Nonfiction Matters Presentation Slides

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