Kelly Gallagher
Building Deeper Readers in the Age of CCSS
Frugal and Gorbit –
retelling
start in the shallow end of the pool
Key Ideas and Details – what does it say
Word Summaries
Pick a number between 1 and 20 tell what you’ve read in ( ) words
Goofy headlines
--
Give them a chunk of newspaper have them produce the
headline
Write a headline
– fiction or nonfiction
CHUNK AND RETELL
HEADLINE
EXPLAIN YOUR HEADLINE
Window Quotes – a
big idea in it – select
(like last word)
Move them beyond the printed page.
listen, watch, retell – TED Talks
Jimmy Wales –
Wikipedia – note taking – teach them how to take notes
Group summaries
10 minutes – all in one paragraph
Sir Ken Robinson: Do Schools Kill Creativity?
Cornell notes
Taylor – stroke
left side what
she said
right side what
was not said – inference
What she says
What she leaves out
Chevy truck – print ad Chevy trucks, the best headlights in
its class
Craft and Structure
What does the text do
Read like a writer – noticing the moves, the techniques
employed by the
All Quiet on the Western Front
The Yellow Birds – Kevin Powers – Afghanistan
f-bombs
entire passage one sentence
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Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
What does it mean?
Deeper readers recognize claims – not thesis statement –
write a claim
Harper’s Index
one page collection of statistics
ex. Percentage
change since 1996 in the number of U.S. childen living in proverty: +12
Claims: one
sentence
info-graphics
The Week
Website
infographics
make a list of all the things you learn by reading that
chart
what claims can be made?
Visual imagery Dorthea Lange’s Migrant Mother
Why did she write it?
Who did she hope would read it? What claim is she making?
100 photographs that changed the world
paintings – Gassed Mark Singer Sargeant
Dulce et Decorum Est
encyclopedia entry
average life expectancy of WWI pilot 12 days
We Real Cool
Butch Cassidy --
Joseph Griffith’s The Surrender
example in Write Like This
Anchor Reading Standards
What does the text say?
What does the text
do?
What does the text mean?
Three Big Problems with the Anchor Reading Standards
1. Readers should go beyond the “four corners of the text.”
David Coleman
So what?
more than stories
Reading provides
students with “imaginative rehearsals” for the real world. – Kenneth Burke
interpretations – defend, connect
1984 – Orwell
Problem #2 : Scaffolding (pre-reading) is undervalued.
Walk them into the wrestling match.
You have to know stuff to “encounter texts on your own
terms”
You have to know stuff to read stuff.
Problem #3: Where are the recreational reading standards?
“word poverty”
What effect does word poverty have on reading?
If “word poverty” is not addressed, it doesn’t matter
whether the bar is raised. . . .
Article of the Week
Not just common core, but core values of reading and writing
for kids.
Narrative writing undervalued
Tom Newkirk –
[We tell our stories to get people to connect
Gallagher – forms of
discourse
@KellyGToGo
Carol Jago
kellygallagher.org
November 7 Cris
Tovanni
Theme/Main Idea
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Reading
an Image: Using Images for
Rhetorical Analysis
Movies – cinematic elements
Sonja or Lyde –
making a movie
conduct research, produce and consume media
old advertisements –
text heavy
modern
-- little text
Images for The Outsiders?
brightest, lightest
suggestion of movement
angles
What is NOT there?
Somebody sat in an office and had a bunch of money. What
sort of image can we create that will sell the most cars?
constructed – staged
Even photographs –
toppling of BinLaden
-- framing small
group, or looks like a lot – taken from how far away
Tuesday Weisner
to teach inference – students create the story
Painting: “I am
half-sick of shadows, said the
Lady of Shalott” by John William Waterhouse (1916)
image in the mirror heart-shaped
her posture suggests
her facial expression
colors – symbolism
couples outside the window
can’t look out the window – sees the world as a reflection?
loom
with mirror cracked
in the boat
Loreena McKennit song
angels in black trench coats
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Informational Text
Grammar of images
up, down, forward or back
framing Citizen
Kane – when lawyer comes to cottage he and mother are sitting at table, father
standing boy outside
Omayra Sanchez
“And of Clay We Are Created” Allende
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Argumentative
inundated with ads
What do we buy for which we use logos? computers, medicines?
Daily Dose of Core Skills -- Mike Handy
Strategies to teach an abundance of standards
Too many standards – 42
Rather than teach a standard, assess, mastery of that
standard, reteach, remediate, differentiate. . . .
1.
Choose core skills most important
2.
design brief warm up activities
3.
evaluate the effectiveness of the activities and
redesign as necessary
mightyprettydad on Twitter
longest 12 minutes
most 6 minutes
Vocab instruction
solving mini-mysteries
sentence combining
mini-debates
analyzing videos
analyzing editorial cartoons
3 for vocab instruction:
word-attack from parts
context
usage
Fugacious from Holt lit book
Fugacious come from a similar root to the word
fugitive. Using what you know
about fugieve as well as context form the story, write a definition fugacious
“fugacious as time itself “ O’Henry
fugue one running away, one chasing
context Anna
Quindlen
“America is an improbable idea. A mongrel nation build of everchanging ans disparate parts,
, it is held toether by a notion, the notion that all men are created equal,
thouh everyone knows that most men consider themselves better than someone. “
