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       NBCTs Professional Development Improving Comprehension of Informational Texts

  Improving Comprehension of Informational Texts

 Presenter's Agenda

 

Working Agenda
Improving Comprehension with Informational Text - Overview

 

 Power Point Presentations

 

Improving Comprehension with Informational Text
 

 Handouts

 

1. Survey of Knowledge: Informational Text
2. Informational Texts
3. Classifying Nonfiction Books
4.
Seventh-Inning Stress Article
5. Strategies vs. Skills
6. Comparison Chart for Text Features
7. Informational Text Features - HO#7
8 Informational Text Features - HO#8
9. Instructional Strategy: Book Tour
10. Expository Text Structures
& Summary Frames
11. Instructional Strategy Anticipation Guide
12. Anticipation Guide Template
13. Predicting and Confirming Activity for Giant Pandas
14. Predicting and Confirming Activity Template
15. Instructional Strategy: Vocabulary Four -Square
    15a. Vocabulary Four Square
16.
Self Monitoring
    16a. Perfectly Preserved
    16b. Honoring Jackie Robinson
    16c. Flying Blind
    16d. Home of Hope
17. Instructional Strategy: Text Mapping
 
18. Information Web
19. Text Mapping - Compare and Contrast
20. Text Map - Compare and Contrast

21. Text Mapping - Cause & Effect

22. Text Mapping - Cause & Effect
23. Text Mapping - Sequence or Time Order
24. Text Mapping -  Time Sequence or Cycle of Events
25. Text Mapping - Problem/Solution
26. Concept Relationship Chart
27. Concept Relationship Chart for Social Studies
28. Concept Relationship Charts
29. Retelling Informational Text
30. Preparing an Informational Retell
31. Reader Response in Writing (Learning Logs)
32. Bloom's Taxonomy
33. Semantic Feature Analysis
     33a.
Semantic Feature Analysis
34. Data Charts
35. Rubric for Evaluating Children's Retellings of
     Informational Text

36. Goal Setting: Making Plan for Implementation
37. Exit Slips
 
 References

 

Books to Use for Modeling Text Structures
Other References
25 Notification Big Books - Too Good To Miss