Close Reading
Strategies
that
Work
A few reminders
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Sitting with like-minded colleagues
Please consider sitting with colleagues who
share your grade-level, subject area, or
school paradigms. This can make sharing
more purposeful and could expand your
professional network in new and exciting
ways.
Please feel free to contact me at william.ringer@acsgmail.net
Hello!
I am William Ringer, Ed.D
I am here because I am passionate about techniques
for teaching literacy that help:
1. students learn to read with purpose
2. teachers provide effective literacy instruction
3. make literacy instruction a positive feature in any
classroom (not just the Language Arts classroom)
Literacy Rates - points for discussion
1.
“Although the literacy of American children has not
changed appreciably over the past forty years, the
American labor market has changed dramatically.”
--”Literacy Challenges for the Twenty-First Century,” 2012
“Today’s economy and the
complex political and social
challenges facing the nation
demand more advanced skills
than ever before.”
--Richard Murnane, Harvard Graduate
School of Education
Some things to consider . . .
■
The most recent National Assessment of
Educational Progress report indicates that almost
one-third of U.S. students do not achieve basic
levels of reading competency by fourth grade.
■
High school students’ reading performance shows
no improvement from 1971, with only 38 percent of
high school seniors scoring at or above proficient.
■
90 million U.S. adults lack adequate literacy, with
many unable to take care of their health needs, let
alone participate in the contemporary workforce.
Strategies that improve literacy
Close reading activities -- but first, let’s
share a text! (Insert link)
Reading in Language Arts
Text
Text with purpose
Students expect to
read in their English
class -- but often that
reading lacks purpose
and lacks direction.
Giving students a
target for their reading,
with both opportunities
for practice and for
mastery, strengthens
concepts in both
reading and in
comprehension.
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. . . but what about other content areas?
Science
Social Studies
Math
While students
would expect to
read a textbook
in their science
class, can
literacy skills be
taught with more
engaging
scientific texts?
Often considered
dull or lessrelevant, how
can literacy skills
help bring to life
the primary
documents of
history?
While numbers
still dominate the
math classroom,
how can literacy
skills help
students better
understand the
role of numbers
in their lives?
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(Insert link)
(Insert link)
“A picture -- or a
chart -- is worth a
thousand words.”
Could using
standardized
analysis charts help
strengthen literacy
instruction?
(Insert link)
Basic literacy -- analysis for expanded
understanding.
Reading the text
(Insert link)
Determining
what the writer
is saying
Deciding how
the writer is
saying it
Thanks!
Any questions?
You can find me at william.ringer@acsgmail.net