Week 5 reading 1 - 2017
- 2. Professional Learning Conversations • Websites for Teachers – Resources for teaching Reading Strand – Gotta Keep Reading! (compliments of Nicholas) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue= 196&v=GNpNfhpqDk4
- 3. DESIGNING MEDIA TEXT FORMS FOR READING
- 4. Haiku as a Text Form • Line 1: 5 syllables • Line 2: 7 syllables • Line 3: 5 syllables
- 5. Haiku for winter Frosty winter’s day Bare white limbs on creaking trees Imperfection, grace What are the features of haiku as a text form?
- 6. Twitter as a Text Form • How would you describe the features & conventions of a tweet? • How does a tweet differ in purpose from other text forms such as an email or blog post?
- 7. Chris Hadfield Tweet from Space • Original tweet: “Mining town in northern China – the open pits gleam with blue from space” • As haiku poem: Northern China mines (5) Open pits gleam blue from space (7) Rich reserves of ore (5)
- 9. Tutorials • PicCollage: Link is on Sakai for Week 5 Take it to the next level by “app smashing” via • ThingLink
- 10. Your Task • Pic Collage app on iPads • Select a Chris Hadfield tweet from space (handout) – Rewrite it to fit the haiku form (5/7/5) – Conduct any research needed to clarify the tweet – Using Pic Collage: • Select appropriate online images and arrange as a collage • Select a background • Type the haiku into a text box • Save to photos
- 11. Ontario Curriculum • How does this poetry/media activity address specific expectations in the Ontario Curriculum: Language? – Consider more than one strand • Media Studies • Writing • Reading • What other subject areas are also addressed?
- 12. School Context • If I were to replicate the PicCollage activity in a Junior classroom, what further supports or steps would I have to consider?
- 15. Comprehension Strategies • Activating prior knowledge • Determining a purpose for reading • Making connections: text-to-self; text-to-text; text-to-world • Predicting • Visualizing • Questioning • Drawing inferences • Evaluating
- 16. Guide to Effective Instruction: Reading • Focus on Comprehension Strategies – pp. 25-27 (link is on Sakai week 5) • Read the handout (or view online pp. 25-27) carefully to understand each comprehension strategy. Discuss any areas of confusion at your table • Your table will participate in an online quiz in 15 minutes!!
- 17. Kahoot.it
- 18. Using Portraits, Comic Books, and Graphic Novels to Teach Inferencing • See article on Sakai Week 5: – “Using Comics and Graphic Novels in the Classroom”
- 20. Portrait • What do you see? (observe) • What can you conclude from what you see? (infer) • What is your evidence to back up that inference? (conclusion)
- 22. Next Week • Professional Learning Conversation – Professional Reading Styslinger, M, Walker, N., & Lenker, T. (2014). Beyond the sticky note and Venn diagram: Comprehension strategies for 21st century schools. Voices from the Middle, 22(2), 13-20.
Editor's Notes
- #14: Make point that reading can be difficult, and can affect self-esteem. Also a barrier to learning in non-language arts areas (e.g. math problem-solving) Ada: “They just didn’t wait for me.” Lit. Council: “We didn’t they tell me this?!”