OVERVIEW FOR TLI TEACHER SPECIALISTS 11/09/12
STAARing Poetry and
Persuasion:
Exploring Genre through
Workstations
A Presentation written by Karen Foster
Abydos Diamond Trainer
Fort Bend ISD
C-C-P
• Consume
• Critique
• Produce
Students must read
multiple types of texts
(picture books,
authentic texts,
magazines, etc.,)
They read and explore
in peer groups an din
read alouds
They notice and name
the features.
Students learn
to analyze and
evaluate the
specific genre
based on the
features.
 Students produce
written examples of
the specific genre
orally
 Then, in shared
writing,
 And finally
independently with a
gradual release of
responsibility
STRATEGIES FOR TESTING
Test taking strategy  W-H-W What?
How? Why?
Useful to students AFTER reading a test
selection and BEFORE being confronted
by test items.
By pausing to ask themselves these
questions, students think deeply and
analytically/critically about text.
W-H-W WHAT?-HOW?-WHY?
What?
What did the
author write?
• Plot
• Main Ideas
• Summary
How?
Why?
How did the
Why did the
author write it? author write it?
• Organi-zation
• Text
• Theme
Features
• Purpose
• Language
 we need to develop
tutorial and
intervention activities
that scaffold the
complexity inherent in
both the text itself as
well as the level of
rigor in the questions.
TEACHERS NEED TO:
Access a range of examples from all
genres that can be tested.
Use activities/strategies that focus
on students thinking through the
What?..How?..Why? of the passage.
Use Think Alouds with the students as
the teacher reads the passage aloud and
share your thinking about the passage,
Using questions stems that have the
rigor of STAAR is important as well as a
heuristic approach
1. Poetry Exploration
Purpose: Consume
2. Poetry Theatre
Purpose: Consume
3. Poetic Devices:
Looking Within
Purpose: Critique
4. Persuasive Text:
Looking Within
Purpose: Consume
5. Persuasive Techniques:
Tools of Persuasion
Purpose: Critique
6. Genre Exploration
Cubes
Purpose: Critique
Together
Everyone
Achieves
More!