Week 4 Day 1 Foundations of Reading

Section 7

Understand How to Apply Reading Comprehension Skills and Strategies to Informational/ Expository Texts

VOCABULARY​

Informational/Expository Texts: These are factual materials for science, social studies, and other content areas, as well as “concept books” for the very young dealing with the alphabet or relationships of time, space, amount. These books explain something to children or teach them how to do something.​

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Informational/Expository Texts​

Informational texts…

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·Have a purpose to convey information about the natural or social world

·Enables nonlinear reading

·May have an index, table of contents, headings

·Diagrams, charts, graphs, captions

·Realistic illustrations, photographs

·Timeless verbs, generic nouns

·Specialized vocabulary, italicization, boldfacing

·Particular text structures​

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Close Reading: While there are many interpretations of close reading, the one espoused by the Foundations of Reading test focuses on a sequence of repeated readings of an excerpt from a text or short “chunk” of text. Through each successive reading, students are guided to focus on a different aspect of the reading (such as the meaning of selected words and phrases) in order to form a deeper interpretation of the text. This process is used to support children in reading complex texts at grade level. Close reading of informational texts allows reader to identify point of view, distinguish fact from opinion, determine whether a text has faulty (or biased) reasoning

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Unique Reading Strategies of Informational Texts: adjusting reading rate based on text difficulty, skimming/scanning)​

Analysis of Informational Texts: Determining the main idea(s) and supporting details (evidence) is a crucial aspect of reading for meaning within an informational text. Synthesis of ideas across texts is another.

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Craft and Structure Analysis of the text as an “object”—noticing how it’s structured (true/false; cause/effect; pro/con; sequential etc.); determining the author’s purpose and perspective; analyzing the writing techniques (writing style) and use of text features the author employs for a particular effect; analyzing how the author might use particular words or phrases to convey a point of view​

​DEFINITIONS

Informational Text Structure: Definitions & Signal Words

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HOMEWORK​

1. Continue to make your flashcards

2. Answer questions 69-80

3.Begin to start adding to your "Brain Dump Paper" ​

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