English SOL Institute Elementary Vocabulary & Nonfiction Reading Workshop

1. English SOL Institute Elementary Vocabulary & Nonfiction Reading Workshop Debbi Fewster & Dawn Wilson Montgomery County Public Schools

2. Vocabulary • Use resources from English SOL Vocabulary Web page • Provide students with opportunities to study vocabulary in authentic texts (newspapers, labels, advertisements, etc.) and words from reading material • Studying vocabulary from authentic texts strengthens nonfiction reading skills K-12 English SOL Institute October 2013

3. Stoplight Knowledge Rating • Red -If you don’t know a word at all… • Yellow -If you have heard of the word but aren’t sure what it means… • Green -If you know the word and can use it while speaking or writing… K-12 English SOL Institute October 2013

4. Stoplight Vocabulary

5. Vocabulary • Model context clues • Crickwing • Give plenty of practice opportunities Third Grade SOL Vocabulary Fourth Grade SOL Vocabulary Fifth Grade SOL Vocabulary • Connect vocabulary instruction to the text through text-dependent questions K-12 English SOL Institute October 2013

6. Crickwing Crickwingby Jannell Cannon Harcourt Children's Books; 2000

7. Nonfiction • Nonfiction emphasizes text structures and organizational patterns • Both emphasize making inferences and drawing conclusions based on explicit and implied information • Differentiate between fact and opinion K-12 English SOL Institute October 2013

8. A statement of FACTcan be proved TRUEor FALSE. A statement of OPINIONis what someone believes or thinks. There may or may not be a good reason to think this way. Words that give you clues that a statement is an opinion are believe, like, and should. These words express how someone feels. • A FACT can be proved true or false. • An OPINION is what someone believes or thinks. K-12 English SOL Institute October 2013

9. Nonfiction Use content text books to create: • nonfiction paired passages • reading comprehension questions • vocabulary questions • usage/mechanics questions • constructed response questions • research connections K-12 English SOL Institute October 2013

10. Paired Passage Lesson

11. Technology Enhanced Items (TEI’s)

12. Technology Enhanced Items (TEI’s)

13. Sorting Mat

14. Compare & Contrast Paragraph

15. Nonfiction • Use VDOE resources: • Sample Paired Passages • Sample Text-Dependent Questions • Enhanced Scope and Sequence Sample Lesson Plans K-12 English SOL Institute October 2013

16. Nonfiction K-12 English SOL Institute October 2013

17. Text Structures • Text Structures http://languageartsreading.dadeschools.net/pdf/ElementaryDocuments/Intermediate/TextChart.pdf • 20 Strategies to teach text Structure http://usd262.com/modules/groups/homepagefiles/cms/3550/File/Curriculum/Literacy/Comprehension/Textstructure_resources.pdf

18. Nonfiction K-12 English SOL Institute October 2013

19. Text Features • Informational Text Features http://www.mcps.org/Language_Arts_Files/Resources/InformationalTextFeaturesChartofback2april.pdf • Text Features Posters http://modx.mcps.org/Title_I_Files/Text%20Features.pdf

20. Nonfiction Conventions Scavenger Hunt

21. “Take Aways” • Turn to the person next to you and share - • one “FactTake Away” & • one “OpinionTake Away” from this workshop. K-12 English SOL Institute October 2013

22. Contact Information • Debbi Fewster • Montgomery County Public Schools • debbifewster@mcps.org • Dawn Wilson • Montgomery County Public Schools • dawnwilson@mcps.org

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