Solving the Mystery of Close Reading ASCD 2014 | Common Core State Standards Bill and Melinda Gates/ASCD Grant: Virtual Learning Networks: Social Studies Webinar 2: Solving the Mystery of Close Reading Teacher Networks: Building Capacity for Powerful Instruction February 2014 ASCD 2014 | Common Core State Standards Webinar 2 Agenda WELCOME! Introduction of ASCD Faculty Member and attendees Reminder of VLN Goals Educore/ ASCD EDge refresher Todays Problem of Practice The Core Six & Strategies Possible POP for Webinar 3? ASCD/Gates Grant: Virtual Learning Networks ASCD 2014 | Common Core State Standards Role Reversal (ASCD, 2013) The 5-Minute Teacher (ASCD, 2013) ASCD Faculty Learnitin5.com creator International on Twitter markbarnes19.com Mark Barnes Poll 1: What grade level do you teach? A: K-3 B: 4-6 C: 7-9 D: E: admin/ other Social Studies VLN ASCD | Common Core State Standards Poll 2: Id rate my understanding of close reading as A: expert B: almost a pro C: average D: heard of it but have little understanding E: never heard of it Social Studies VLN ASCD | Common Core State Standards ASCD/Gates Grant: Virtual Learning Networks ASCD | Common Core State Standards Todays Agenda WELCOME! Introduction of ASCD Faculty Member and attendees Reminder of VLN Goals Todays Problem of Practice Core 6 Essential Strategies Reading for Meaning Compare and Contrast Possible Next POP for Webinar 3? ASCD/Gates Grant: Virtual Learning Networks Two Years Five Webinars per year Content specific Hosted by ASCD faculty member Synchronous Recorded and archived on EduCore ASCD | Common Core State Standards Goals: 1. Cultivate Constructivist Community 2. Help understand and facilitate the implementation of the CCSS 3. Develop a virtual team to support each other 4. 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Here you will find links and documents from the key stakeholders, developers, and advocates of the standards. ASCD 2014 | Common Core State Standards Literacy Tools The Common Core State Standards promote literacy across subject areas. Examine these resources to learn about the role of literacy in the Common Core State Standards. You can also find guidelines for literacy standards here. ASCD 2014 | Common Core State Standards 2. Log in 3. Join 1. Go here ASCD EDge VLN Social Studies Continue the conversation on the ASCD EDge VLN site ASCD 2014 | Common Core State Standards ASCD/Gates Grant: Virtual Learning Networks ASCD | Common Core State Standards Todays Agenda WELCOME! Introduction of ASCD Faculty Member and attendees Reminder of VLN Goals Todays Problem of Practice Core 6 Essential Strategies Reading for Meaning Compare and Contrast Possible Next POP for Webinar 3? ASCD 2014 | Common Core State Standards Problem of Practice How do I improve my students close reading skills? ASCD 2014 | Common Core State Standards Define close reading? Type your response in the question box ASCD 2014 | Common Core State Standards According to Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC), 2011, p. 7 Close, analytic reading stresses engaging with a text of sufficient complexity directly and examining meaning thoroughly and methodically, encouraging students to read and reread deliberately. ASCD 2014 | Common Core State Standards Okay, that seems complicated Photo credit: James Cridland via Photopin ASCD 2014 | Common Core State Standards Lets make this close reading thing easy Silver, H.F., Dewing, R.T., & Perini, M.J. (2012). The Core Six: Essential Strategies for Achieving Excellence with the Common Core. Arlington, VA.: ASCD. ASCD 2014 | Common Core State Standards Silver, H.F., Dewing, R.T., & Perini, M.J. (2012). The Core Six: Essential Strategies for Achieving Excellence with the Common Core. Arlington, VA.: ASCD. ASCD 2014 | Common Core State Standards Tips for Introducing and Using Strategies 1. Explain the strategys purpose and students roles in the strategy. Whenever you use a strategy, take the time to tell students its name and explain how it works and why it is important. Most essential, teach students the specific steps in the strategy and explain what you expect them to do at each step. Research (Brown, Pressley, Van Meter, & Schuder, 1996) shows that explicitly teaching the steps and making expectations clear enable students to use strategies independently. 2. Teach the thinking embedded in the strategy. For example, collecting and evaluating evidence is one crucial thinking skill embedded in several Core Six strategies. To teach this skill, discuss the concept of evidence with students. What is evidence? When and how is it used? Teach the logical reasoning involved in math: understanding the question, determining givens, choosing methods for solving, etc. Silver, H.F., Dewing, R.T., & Perini, M.J. (2012). The Core Six: Essential Strategies for Achieving Excellence with the Common Core. Arlington, VA.: ASCD. ASCD 2014 | Common Core State Standards Tips for Introducing and Using Strategies 3.Use discussion and questioning techniques to extend student thinking. To move students from superficial to deep understanding, extend student thinking through questioning and discussion. A simple but powerful technique for improving classroom questioning and discussion is Q-SPACE (Strong, Hanson, & Silver, 1998). 4. Ask students to synthesize and transfer their learning. Challenge students to pull together what they have learned and transfer that learning to a new context. For example, after completing a Circle of Knowledge discussion in which 5 th grade students debate a local issue (should their small town allow a big-box store to build on a vacant lot?), you might present three more debatable issues for students to discuss in teams, using what they have learned about civil debate and compromise to resolve each issue. Silver, H.F., Dewing, R.T., & Perini, M.J. (2012). The Core Six: Essential Strategies for Achieving Excellence with the Common Core. Arlington, VA.: ASCD. ASCD 2014 | Common Core State Standards Tips for Introducing and Using Strategies 5.Leave time for reflection. When using a strategy, students need time to think back not only on the content but also on the process. For example, you might say, Lets think back on our use of Compare and Contrast. How did the organizer help you plan your strategy for problem solving? What might you do differently next time you use a Compare and Contrast organizer? Silver, H.F., Dewing, R.T., & Perini, M.J. (2012). The Core Six: Essential Strategies for Achieving Excellence with the Common Core. Arlington, VA.: ASCD. ASCD 2014 | Common Core State Standards Reading For Meaning ASCD 2014 | Common Core State Standards Reading For Meaning How do you get students to read for meaning? Respond in the question box please ASCD 2014 | Common Core State Standards Reading For Meaning Reading for Meaning helps students develop the skills that proficient readers use to make sense of rigorous texts. The strategy helps build these Common Core skills: Managing text complexity. Evaluating and using evidence. Developing the core skills of reading (e.g., finding main ideas, making inferences, and analyzing characters and content). Silver, H.F., Dewing, R.T., & Perini, M.J. (2012). The Core Six: Essential Strategies for Achieving Excellence with the Common Core. Arlington, VA.: ASCD. ASCD 2014 | Common Core State Standards Reading for Meaning 1.Identify a short text to read for meaning. 1.Usually a Word Problem, but could be an explanation out of a text. 2.Could also be a graph or table!! We READ those too. 2.Generate a list of statements from text. Students will search text for support to agree or refute statement. 3.Introduce topic and preview statements. 4.Students record evidence either while they read or after reading. 5.Students share evidence in pairs or small groups. 6.Evidence is shared whole class. Silver, H.F., Dewing, R.T., & Perini, M.J. (2012). The Core Six: Essential Strategies for Achieving Excellence with the Common Core. Arlington, VA.: ASCD. ASCD 2014 | Common Core State Standards Reading Social Studies WASHINGTON House Democrats are determined to cast an election-year spotlight on Republican opposition to raising the minimum wage and overhauling immigration laws. To try to accomplish that in the GOP-controlled House, Democrats are planning to rely on an infrequently used, rarely successful tactic known as a "discharge petition." It requires the minority party in this case, Democrats, who are unable to dictate the House agenda to persuade some two dozen Republicans to defy their leadership, join Democrats and force a vote on setting the federal minimum wage at $10.10 an hour. source: Startribune.com ASCD 2014 | Common Core State Standards Reading for Meaning 1.Identify a short text to read for meaning. 1.Usually a Word Problem, but could be an explanation out of a text. 2.Could also be a graph or table!! We READ those too. 2.Generate a list of statements from text. Students will search text for support to agree or refute statement. 3.Introduce topic and preview statements. 4.Students record evidence either while they read or after reading. 5.Students share evidence in pairs or small groups. 6.Evidence is shared whole class. Silver, H.F., Dewing, R.T., & Perini, M.J. (2012). The Core Six: Essential Strategies for Achieving Excellence with the Common Core. Arlington, VA.: ASCD. ASCD 2014 | Common Core State Standards Reading for Meaning Evidence ForStatementEvidence Against The first sentence contains relevant information. (This statement is designed to build students skills in separating relevant from irrelevant information.) House Democrats want to increase minimum wage and will try to persuade Republicans to cross party lines to help them The democrats have an excellent chance of reaching their goal ASCD 2014 | Common Core State Standards Reading for Meaning Evidence ForStatementEvidence Against The first sentence contains relevant information. (This statement is designed to build students skills in separating relevant from irrelevant information.) Democrats force a vote on setting the federal minimum wage at $10.10 an hour. House Democrats want to increase minimum wage and will try to persuade Republicans to cross party lines to help them The democrats have an excellent chance of reaching their goal Discharge petition requires democrats to persuade two dozen Republicans to defy their leadership ASCD 2014 | Common Core State Standards Compare and Contrast Photo credit: Peter Thoeny, via Photopin ASCD 2014 | Common Core State Standards Dont forget to add your comments to the ASCD EDge VLN site during or after the webinar ASCD 2014 | Common Core State Standards Compare and Contrast Compare & Contrast teaches students to conduct a thorough comparative analysis. Why use compare and contrast? Three key reasons, according to The Core Six: Comparative thinking Comparative reading A best bet for raising student achievement ASCD 2014 | Common Core State Standards Compare and Contrast ASCD 2014 | Common Core State Standards Compare and Contrast Use this instead Silver, H.F., Dewing, R.T., & Perini, M.J. (2012). The Core Six: Essential Strategies for Achieving Excellence with the Common Core. Arlington, VA.: ASCD. ASCD 2014 | Common Core State Standards Compare and Contrast Or this Religion Dwellings Technology Maya Criteria Aztecs Description Organizer for Ancient Civilizations Silver, H.F., Dewing, R.T., & Perini, M.J. (2012). The Core Six: Essential Strategies for Achieving Excellence with the Common Core. Arlington, VA.: ASCD. ASCD 2014 | Common Core State Standards Compare and Contrast Description Activate Prior Knowledge Give clear criteria to focus descriptions Use graphic organizer to help. At this stage, students describe each item separately, not make a comparison. HouseCriteriaSenate Term Procedures Structure ASCD 2014 | Common Core State Standards Compare and Contrast Conclusion Draw conclusions by building discussion around concluding questions, such as Are the two items more alike or more different? What is the most important difference? Think of some causes and effects of this difference. What conclusions can you draw? Silver, H.F., Dewing, R.T., & Perini, M.J. (2012). The Core Six: Essential Strategies for Achieving Excellence with the Common Core. Arlington, VA.: ASCD. ASCD 2014 | Common Core State Standards Problem of Practice How do I improve my students close reading skills? ASCD 2014 | Common Core State Standards Reading For Meaning ASCD 2014 | Common Core State Standards Reading for Meaning 1.Identify a short text to read for meaning. 2.Generate a list of statements from text. 3.Introduce topic and preview statements. 4.Students record evidence either while they read or after reading. (use a tactile response) 5.Students share evidence in pairs or small groups. Silver, H.F., Dewing, R.T., & Perini, M.J. (2012). The Core Six: Essential Strategies for Achieving Excellence with the Common Core. Arlington, VA.: ASCD. ASCD 2014 | Common Core State Standards Compare and Contrast Photo credit: Peter Thoeny, via Photopin ASCD 2014 | Common Core State Standards Compare and Contrast Description Activate prior knowledge Give clear criteria for focus Conclusion Draw conclusions by building discussion around concluding questions, such as Are the two items more alike or more different? What is the most important difference? Think of some causes and effects of this difference. What conclusions can you draw? Silver, H.F., Dewing, R.T., & Perini, M.J. (2012). The Core Six: Essential Strategies for Achieving Excellence with the Common Core. Arlington, VA.: ASCD. ASCD 2014 | Common Core State Standards Problem of Practice What is our next problem? ASCD 2014 | Common Core State Standards Think about it and share your ideas on the ASCD EDge VLN. ASCD 2014 | Common Core State Standards ASCD/Gates Grant: Virtual Learning Networks Poll Question 3: Agree/Disagree for Grant Information! The content of this webinar bettered my understanding of the instructional shifts. a) Agreeb) Disagree ASCD 2014 | Common Core State Standards ASCD/Gates Grant: Virtual Learning Networks Poll Question 4: Agree/Disagree for Grant Information! The ideas and resources shared will help me implement the CCSS in my own classroom (or help me help teachers) a) Agreeb) Disagree ASCD 2014 | Common Core State Standards ASCD/Gates Grant: Virtual Learning Networks Poll Question 5: Agree/Disagree for Grant Information! I am using/will use the ASCD Edge site to continue the conversation around these topics. a) Agreeb) Disagree ASCD 2014 | Common Core State Standards Whats next? Continue the conversation on the ASCD EDge VLN group site Meet back here for our 3 rd webinar March 25, 3 PM EST. Virtual Learning Networks ASCD 2014 | Common Core State Standards Thank you! Connect with me on: ASCD EDge: VLN social studies group social studies social studies ASCD/Gates Grant: Virtual Learning Networks