OSSLT PREP: From HereHere to ThereThere

AgendaAgenda

• Session #1—Reading Selections Session #1—Reading Selections (25 (25 minutes)minutes)

• Explicit & Implicit “READING” (Gut check)Explicit & Implicit “READING” (Gut check)• Read: Read: Hadfield spacewalk giant step for Hadfield spacewalk giant step for

CanadaCanada• Questions give us directionsQuestions give us directions• Mapping out answersMapping out answers• GroupstormGroupstorm• Modeling an answerModeling an answer

Explicit “Reading”

• Reading is not limited to books.

• Every movie, T.V. program, and video game asks you to “read”

• The Literacy Test asks you to read words and use skills that YOU use everyday

• Example #1

Explicit Information

• ex·plic·it

• Explicit means:• leaving no question as to meaning or intent

• Watch the clip again. What EXPLICIT information is presented?

• Example #1

Implicit Information

• im·plic·it

• Implicit means:• capable of being understood from something else

though unexpressed (CONNECTIONS)

OR

What does this mean?

What does this mean?

Why is this funny?

• Example #2

Inference

• When you read between the lines you are doing what is called INFERENCE.

• More to the point, when you understand why the scene with the Gingerbread Man is funny you are reading between the lines.

• You infer ALL THE TIME, EVERYDAY.

Inference

• I ask you for a glass of water.

• Why?

Inference

• A man gets on a bus. What might be implied by each of the following?

• He ran to catch the bus. • He is carrying a suitcase. • He asks the driver for change of a $100 bill.

Reading Selection #1

• Reading is a CONVERSATION: if you don’t communicate with the reading then you’re missing the point; you’re missing the conversation

Reading Selection #1

• While reading: mark the selection up—circle, highlight, underline, jot notes in the margins

• This will save you time when you go to answer the questions

• Read the selection: Hadfield spacewalk Hadfield spacewalk giant step for Canadagiant step for Canada

Reading Selection—Written Response—The Question

Question

Location

Answer

Organize

Response

Question

• The question tells you where in the text to go and find the answer. The question is a map.

Location

• Location is the place in the reading where the information you’re being asked for can be found.

Answer• The answer is in the text in

either an EXPLICIT way (“first Canadian to walk in space”

OR

• …in an IMPLICIT way (“‘That takes your breath away.’”)

Organize• When you have finished

exploring the location you will have a few examples that you will use in your written response.

• You will want to put them in an order that allows you to communicate your ideas without being too simplistic, or too repetitive.

Respond

• Once the information is organized your answer should tell a little story, shed a little insight (seeing into the question), and display a little thinking.

Jones – Sample Response

• Question: Explain how you would feel if you did what Chris Hadfield did. Use information from this selection and your own ideas to support your answer.

• This is a hard question because it has two parts and you need to deal with the second part to respond to the first.

What did Chris Hadfield do?

• Title -- “spacewalk”• Paragraph #1 -- “walk in

space”• Paragraph #3 -- “seven-hours”• Paragraph #4 -- “installed

Canada arm”• Paragraph #5 -- “tether”• Paragraph #6 -- “four years

training”

Imagine:

• Where do we start with how you might “feel”?

• Imagine: Four years of practice in preparation for a seven-hour space walk, the first in Canadian history; from pool to

outerspace -- YOUThat’s me and my dad

Response

If I were to walk in Chris Hadfield’s moonboots, in space, for seven-hours, I would be floating. To see earth from afar, to swim amongst the stars, to occupy space untouched but by few; oh, to be truly discovering. Four years of sacrifice, of training when the return is freedom at the end of a tether in the almighty universe. That is experience.

What Jones did…

• Made connections amongst the information to imagine a picture that involved me.

• Created relationships amongst words and ideas.

But is it right?

• I had to ask. So I did. I asked Mrs. Kessler.

• I asked: Do you think that I need to speak about being the first Canadian in space? Or, installing the new Canadian Arm 2? Or, how important such a Canadian first is?

Mrs. Kesller is smart…

• She said, “No.” • That means I’m right,

right?

• But why?

In the Written Response…

• There are multiple possibilities for the written response. The person grading your test is looking for big ideas, details, connections, vocabulary, thought to audience, and form.

• It’s about what you write and the quality of that writing—the content, if thoughtful, is “right.”

• Do a “gut check.” If you have answered the question, you have answered the question.

Tomorrow’s Agenda

• Session #2—Reading Selections Session #2—Reading Selections (25 (25 minutes)minutes)

• Explicit & Implicit “READING” (Gut check)Explicit & Implicit “READING” (Gut check)• Reading for SUMMARYReading for SUMMARY• Read: Read: Footwear Favourites: The Story of Footwear Favourites: The Story of

SneakersSneakers• Questions give us directionsQuestions give us directions• Mapping out answersMapping out answers• GroupstormGroupstorm• Modeling an answerModeling an answer