From Reading to writing
- 1. From Reading to Writing: Finding the Missing Link Katie Knecht Fontana Unified School District knecka@fusd.net
- 3. Missing Link #1 Choosing the Right Text
- 4. Choosing the Right Text To be able to write from text, it must be a QUALITY piece of text!
- 5. What Makes Quality Text • Easy to retell plot • Strong characters • Strong details and vocabulary • Elicits higher level questions • Enduring message/theme
- 6. Examples of Quality Text
- 7. Examples of Quality Text
- 8. Examples of Quality Text Poetry: Words as Free as Confetti by Pat Mora Salvador Late or Early by Sandra Cisneros Beat! Beat! Drums! By Walt Whitman Casabianca by Felicia Hemans Casey at the Bat by Ernest Lawrence Thayer The Way Through the Woods by Rudyard Kipling Speeches: “We Shall Fight on the Beeches” by Winton Churchill Malala Yousafzai speech to the United Nations “I Have a Dream” speech by Martin Luther King, Jr.
- 9. What’s your favorite quality text? Turn and Talk
- 10. Missing Link #2 Discussion About the Text
- 11. Discussing the Text Students need to have a firm understanding of the text before they can write about it.
- 13. When to Discuss the Text Pre-reading During Reading After reading
- 14. What to Discuss Move through levels of questioning
- 15. What to Discuss Art Costa: Text Explicit Text Implicit Experience Based Art Costa: (AVID) Factual Interpretive Reflective Fisher and Frye: What does the text say? How does the text work? What does the text mean? What does the text inspire me to do? Bloom: Knowledge Comprehension Application Analysis Synthesis Evaluation Write From the Beginning: Initial Stage Interpretive Stage Reflective Stage Critical Stage QAR: Right There Think and Search Author and You On My Own
- 16. Levels of Questioning So what does it all mean? Turn and Talk
- 17. Samples Example: Little Red Riding Hood • Where was Little Red Riding Hood going? • Who was the main character? • Summarize the story in your own words. • What are some examples of personification in the story? • What is your opinion about the intelligence of the wolf? Justify with evidence from the story. • Are all wolves (in literature) like the wolf in this story?
- 18. Samples Example: Pancakes for Breakfast by Tomie dePaola • What does the lady want to make in the morning? • Did the lady get what she wanted? How? • How did the lady’s neighbors feel about her eating their pancakes? • What does it mean to be neighborly? • Is the lady a good person in the end of the story or not? • Write about a time someone helped you and how it made you feel.
- 19. Samples Example: Hooway for Wodney Wat by Helen Lester • Why was Wodney the shyest rodent in school? • Why was Wondey afraid of Camilla Capybara? • Why did the author use the W for an R? • How did Wodney look at the beginning of the game versus the end? Why? • What does it mean to be a bully? Who was a bully in the story? • Was Wodney a bully to Camilla? Why or why not? • Are all bullies the same? Why or why not?
- 20. Samples Example: Dear Basketball by Kobe Bryant • How old was the author when he dreamed of being a Laker? • Why is he choosing to stop playing basketball? • Why does the author choose to write the poem as a letter? • Why did the author use ellipses at the end instead of commas? • What does it mean to give something your heart? Use evidence from the text to justify your answer. • How does the author feel at the end of the poem? How do you know? • What is a dream that you have? What will you do to see that dream happen?
- 22. How to Discuss • Gallery Walk • Give one, get one • Socratic Seminar • Book Club • Concentric Circles • Conversation Stations • Hot Seat • Kagan Strategies • Line-ups
- 23. What discussion strategy do you love to use? Turn and Talk What’s discussion strategy will you try?
- 24. Missing Link #3 Using the Right Prompt
- 25. The Prompt Prompt depends on what type of writing you want. Short Answer Full Write
- 26. How to Plan for it • Start with standard/objective • Choose text • What is the outcome you want from it • Backwards plan to determine what kind of questions you want to use
- 27. Let’s try it out!
- 28. The 3 Missing Links Choosing the right text Discussing the text Asking the right prompt
- 29. Katie Knecht Fontana Unified School District knecka@fusd.net