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Idea Circles & Inquiry Charts

Idea Circles & Inquiry Charts. Providing equal access to a range of reading levels. Purpose & Agenda. Purposes Provide relevant information on the whats , whys, and hows of Idea Circles and Inquiry Charts

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Idea Circles & Inquiry Charts

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  1. Idea Circles & Inquiry Charts Providing equal access to a range of reading levels

  2. Purpose & Agenda • Purposes • Provide relevant information on the whats, whys, and hows of Idea Circles and Inquiry Charts • Provide time for application to individual classrooms and collaboration with others • Agenda

  3. What are they?

  4. Why do it? • Literacy demands of middle/high school • Adequate time for literacy instruction • Alignment to best practices in adolescent literacy instruction (Reading Next, 2004) • Comprehension Instruction • Comprehension/metacognition instruction • Scaffolded instruction • Apprenticeship model • Motivation/Self-Directed Learning • Text-Based Collaborative Learning • Diverse Texts • Writing Instruction

  5. How do you do it?: Overall Considerations • Topic • Key vocabulary • Key understandings • Student Grouping • Reading levels • Background knowledge • Texts • Authentic • Engaging • Relevant

  6. Example: Teacher Planning Sheet

  7. Example: Student Chart

  8. The HOW: I-Charts Example

  9. The HOW: Planning • Questions • Student Assumptions • Reading/Responding • Informational Text • www.newsela.com • www.thinkcerca.com • Reading Lists • www.reading.org/Resources/Booklists.apsx • www.socialstudies.org/notable • http://www.nsta.org/publications/ostb/ • http://www3.cde.ca.gov/reclitlist/search.aspx (all grade levels/disciplines) • Summarizing • Modeling • Co-construct all summaries • Rapid Research/Reporting

  10. The HOW: What next? Text-Dependent Tasks (in other words…accessing complex text requires students to DO something with their new knowledge) • Writing • RAFT • “I am” poem • Multi-genre writing • Speaking • Collaborative Reasoning • Socratic Seminar • Debate

  11. The HOW: Gradual Release As students become proficient with the framework, offer them greater autonomy through student-selected topics, student-generated questions, and student-selected response tasks.

  12. Final Thoughts/Questions Take-Away: How would you summarize today’s work in one sentence? Jamie.abercrombie@cabarrus.k12.nc.us Literacy Wiki: www.ccsliteracyresources.wikispaces.com

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