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Teaching for Understanding in Nonfiction Presented by Angela Maiers Angelamaiers.com
Goals WHY? WHAT? HOW?
Girls, Too!!!! ©Angela Maiers, 2007
Make the Case Make the Promise!
85-90% Reading • 96% Web • 94% Persuaded
73% 3F/P levels below fiction • 15% 3 GRADE LEVELS below fiction • 6% Struggled with decoding • (Boys=Girls) • Stead, 2007
AMAZING ACCESS VARIETY EXCITING INSTRUCTION
WhatchaReadin? WhatchaWritin?
Reasons • Books • Environment • Tools • Behaviors • Strategies
Does your brain engage differently? What “tools” work best? What behaviors are most helpful?
Explicit Insruction INSTRUCTION!