WorksheetsEnabling Text Discussion Review
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 15mins
Select all that apply: Which of the following are focuses of an enabling text?
Only cognitive skills and strategy
Academic
Social
Cultural
Emotional
True or False: A disabling text enforces a student’s perception of being a struggling reader. A disabling text also recognizes students’ local contexts and their desire as adolescents for self-definition.
True
False
Which of the following is a social function of enabling texts?
discourages differences
boosts self-confidence
divides communities
spreads misinformation
What are the 3 key text factors?
genre, text features, and characters
characters, plot, and setting
genre, text structures, and text features
comparison, sequence, and cause/effect
Select the genres or 3 broad categories of literature recognized in Chapter 9.
Science Fiction
Nonfiction
Poetry
Biographies
Fiction
Select all that apply: Which of the following are possible text features of nonfiction texts?
Headings & Subheadings
Plot
Maps, Diagrams, and other figures
Glossary
Highlighted Vocabulary
Authors’ organization of text and ideas describes
genres
text features
text structures
Literary devices and conventions that achieve a particular effect describe
text features
genres
text structures
True or False: Text factors enable students and teachers to audit texts. This can allow us to determine if a text is enabling or disabling.
False
True
Which of the following is true of text factors?
Text factors only apply to narratives or stories
Only teachers can use them to analyze text
They can only be applied to texts used in educational settings
Text factors help readers to break down and understand a text
True or False: An enabling text has to have an index, glossary, or highlighted vocabulary, so everyone has equal access to the information
True
False
Which book would be the most socially/culturally enabling to a 2nd-grade class learning about the 1969 moon landing?
What kind of questions can we ask about fictional texts?
Who
When/Where
Why/How
All of the above
What
True or False: Text factors facilitate comprehension
True
False
Critical thinking: You give a grade level appropriate book to each student to read and write a book report on. Mariah reads two grade levels below average and only earns a 62% on the assignment. What kind of text did you give her and why?
Enabling, because she is being treated equally with her peers
Disabling, because she doesn't know how to write a book report
Enabling, because she is being challenged at her grade level
Disabling, it reinforced her perception of being a struggling reader
Follow up: After reflecting on this experience, what could you do to support Mariah (student who is 2 reading levels behind) during a similar future assignment?
Continue assigning books that are grade level appropriate
Offer an enabling text, either at her current ability or slightly above to challenge her at an appropriate pace
Offer an engaging text, one that she is interested in but keep it at the reading level she is struggling with
Change the genre of the book or offer her a poem instead
Select what applies: which of the following are forms of poetry?
Odes
Haiku
Apology Poems
Acrostics
Poems for Two Voices
True or False: Enabling texts can be effectively used in the classroom to teach?
False
True
What are some activities we listed as ways to teach with enabling texts?
Plot Diagrams
All of the Above
Readers Theater
Wax Museums
FREE POINT! After learning about enabling vs. disabling texts, how do you now feel about offering conscious, enabling texts in your future classroom?
