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A day of fiction at OPS Institute. Book Story or Life Story?
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Teaching For Understanding In Fiction Presented by Angela Maiers Angelamaiers.com
Agenda • Review and Reflect • 1st 20 days and Beyond • Understanding Fiction • What • How • Access
Joy Understand Learn Love Participate Listen/Reflect Reading Is… Instructional Goals
Answer “Our” Questions!
Joy Understand Learn Love Participate Listen/Reflect Reading Is… Instructional Goals
21st Century StandardsNAEP 2002 Students will have the ability to construct new understandings by interacting across and within texts, summarizing, analyzing, and evaluating them actively. They must be able to use literacy for creative and critical thinking and for advanced problem solving. Proficient and advanced readers know and apply multiple strategies to text in order to construct meanings from multiple perspectives and understand how their meanings may differ from those of others.
Believe Talk Expect
Story Power • Connect • Clarity • Conscious • Courage • Collective
Big Ideas in Fiction
“Book” Story “Life” Story (THEME) Fiction = Stories of Life
BIG IDEA… the part of a book, magazine, argument, film, poem, text, etc… that articulates the author’s message or ideas about the underlying topic or theme which may or may not be explicitly stated.
What makes a Story Good?
Plot • Characterization • Setting • Point of View • Climax • Resolution • Conclusion • Theme