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Determining Importance in Nonfiction Text

Determining Importance in Nonfiction Text. MCSD/Cornerstone Professional Development By Susan Wilheit. Determining importance means picking out the most important information when you read, to highlight essential ideas, to isolate supporting details, and to read for specific information.

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Determining Importance in Nonfiction Text

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  1. Determining Importance in Nonfiction Text MCSD/Cornerstone Professional Development By Susan Wilheit

  2. Determining importance means picking out the most important information when you read, to highlight essential ideas, to isolate supporting details, and to read for specific information. Stephanie Harvey & Anne Goudvis, Strategies that Work What is determining importance?

  3. Modeling Differences Between Fiction and Nonfiction

  4. Look at the fiction and nonfiction books on your table. Talk as a group to answer the question. Record responses on sticky notes, and then we will post on the Venn diagram. Fiction Nonfiction What are the differences in fiction and nonfiction text? How the two text are the same

  5. Debbie Miller says, “ We must teach our students what nonfiction is. Teaching our students that expository text has predictable characteristics and features they can count on before they read allows them to construct meaning more easily as they read.”

  6. Build students’ background knowledge and explicitly teach them what nonfiction conventions are, what kinds of information these conventions give us, and how they help us determine what is important in a text. Make Convention Notebooks

  7. ELA3R3 We are learning to interpret information from illustrations, diagrams, charts, graphs, and graphic organizers. W. a. l. t. (We are learning to)

  8. I must work with my partner to find and discuss features of nonfiction text. • I should record the nonfiction text feature on my graphic organizer. • I could write a sentence telling how this text feature helps the reader in the understanding of the text. WILF (What I’m Looking For)

  9. Anchor Chart

  10. 16 + 16 + 10 + 10 = 52 16 feet Connecting Reading to MathI have to fence in five identical rectangular plots, 16 feet on one side and 10 feet on the other. How much fencing do I need? 10 feet 10 feet 52 X 5 = 260 feet 16 feet

  11. Work with the people at your table. • Read the problem. • Fill out the KWCE chart. • Find the answer to the problem. Show your work. • What are some strategies that you would use when teaching students to solve this problem? • What are the next steps? What does it feel like?

  12. What is one thing that you saw today that you will try in your classroom before the next Professional Development? • What is one thing I saw today that I will try during math before the next Professional Development? What now? What next?

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