Building Success with Benchmark Education’s Bookroom Collections! Meadow Lake Elementary

1. Building Success with Benchmark Education’s Bookroom Collections! Meadow Lake Elementary November 2011 Elisa Brente-Fair elisa@visionsforelarning.net

2. Developmental Reading Behaviors Over Time Emergent Use mostly information from pictures May attend to and use some features of print May know some words and how print is used Respond to text with own experiences Early Rely less on pictures Increase control of early reading strategies Know several frequently used words Read familiar text with fluency Exhibits some strategies-monitoring, cross-checking, self-correction Transitional Full control of early strategies Use multiple sources to gain meaning Large core of frequently used words Rely little on pictures Read longer, more complex texts Self-Extending Use all source of information flexibly Read with phrasing and fluency Read multiple genres Read much longer, more complex texts Advanced Acquire important tools for learning through reading Higher level strategies still under development Sustain reading Adapted from: Matching Books to Readers: Using Leveled Books in Guided Reading K-3 by Irene C. Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell.

3. Guided Reading

5. Nonfiction Text Features Fonts and Special Effects titles and headings boldface and color print italics bullets captions labels Graphics diagrams cutaways cross sections overlays distribution maps word bubbles charts, tables, graphs framed text illustrations and photographs Text Organizers index preface table of contents glossary appendix Content Area Reading: Literacy and Learning across the Curriculum by Richard T. and Jo Anne L. Vacca; Longman, 1999. Text Structure Indicators Cause and Effect/ Problem and Solution because since therefore consequently as a result if...then, Description to begin with most important also in fact for instance for example Sequence on (date) not long after now as before after when then finally Comparison and Contrast however but instead on the other hand either…or although while

6. Small Group Reading Lessons

7. Text-Dependent Question Types • Vocabulary - use context clues • Definitions, descriptions, synonyms, examples • Level 1 - Answers are in the text. • Facts and details • Level 2 - Answers are in the text but may be in more than one place. • Identify cause and effect, compare and contrast, identify sequence or steps in a process, identify stated main idea and supporting details • Level 3 - Answers are inferred or implied. • Make inferences, draw conclusions, make predictions, analyze character • Level 4 - Answers require the reader to think like the author. • Evaluate author’s purpose and point of view, analyze text structure and organization