January PD RRMS

January PD RRMS

Strengthening the Academic Core

Objective for today

Review the opportunities around strengthening the academic core through strategies designed to facilitate student learning with complex text.

Open Ended

Warm-Up: What is complex text?

Multiple Select

Check all of the examples of complex text.

THEY ARE ALL COMPLEX TEXT

Complex text refers to printed, visual, auditory, digital, and multimedia texts that complement each standards-based unit, align to curricular goals, and represent an appropriate level of challenge for students

Fill in the Blank

Schools typically measure the complexity of text by using what quantitiave measuring tool?

Multiple Choice

At what grade level is FIFTY SHADES of GRAY written?

• 12th+ grade

• 9th grade

• 6th grade

• 3rd grade

Multiple Select

Quick Review: What are the the ways that text is measured for complexity?

• quantitative

• qualitative

• reader and task

No matter what subject or grade level

We all engage in complex text. Some have it chosen in their curriculum and some have to make the intentional choice! If we are not continuously looking at our selections of complex text what are the risks?

So we have chosen our complex text in our PLC or it was chosen for us in our curriculum.......

What next? A quick review on what is a "CLOSE READ"

Open Ended

In your own words, what is a close read?

Close reading is an interaction that involves observation and interpretation between the reader and a text. It means rereading and reflecting to come to new conclusions and understandings about the ideas that a text sets out.

Open Ended

When students are working with text in your classroom, what strategies do you use to support their learning?

There are 3 HIGH LEVERAGE strategies that have been proven to be effective across all content areas and grade levels!

Multiple Choice

This activity involves breaking down a difficult text into more manageable pieces and having students rewrite these “pieces” in their own words

• Vocabulary

• Annotating

• Chunking

Multiple Choice

This strategy is any action that deliberately interacts with a text to enhance the reader's understanding of, recall of, and reaction to the text.

• Vocabulary

• Annotating

• Chunking

Multiple Choice

These strategies refer to the words we need to know to understand what we read.

• Vocabulary

• Annotating

• Chunking

"TIME" is our scarcest resource, so why not use the strategies that have been proven to maximize learning in the smallest amount of time.

EXAMPLE

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