Introductory Video

  • Thinking Aloud! Making Sense Of Literacy

Developing Wide Reading: Literary Genre

Fantasy

  • High Fantasy
  • Science Fiction
  • Modern Fantasy

Folklore

  • Folktales, Fairy Tales, and Fables
  • Epics, Legends, and Tall Tales
  • Myths
  • Mother Goose

Historical Fiction

Realistic Fiction

Fluency

  • Are you fluent?
  • Accuracy
  • Expression
  • Rate
  • Phrasing
  • Volume
  • Blending the elements of fluency

Comprehension

Reading Strategies

  • Author Labs (thinking about thinking)
  • Prereading Strategies

Identifying Questions

  • In the book: right there
  • In the book: think and search
  • In my head: author and me
  • In my head: on my own
  • In the book
  • In my head

Reading Fiction

Narrative Story

  • A Story
  • Story Structure

Characterization

  • Narration
  • Character’s conversation with others
  • Character’s thoughts
  • Others’ thoughts about the character & character in action

Setting

  • Setting
  • Historical Fiction
  • Realistic Fiction
  • Fantasy

Plot

  • Overview
  • Progressive pattern of action & person-against-nature conflict
  • Cliffhanger pattern of action & person-against-self conflict
  • Parallel pattern of action & person-against-person conflict
  • Episodic pattern of action & person-against-society conflict

Reading Nonfiction

Evaluating Nonfiction (Is it accurate?)

  • Accurate Author #1
  • Accurate Author #2

Nonfiction Text Structure (Content Area Reading)

  • Text Structure – Public Service Announcement
  • Graphic Organizer

Cause-Effect

  • Multiple causes – single effect
  • Single cause – multiple effects
  • Cause-effect chain

Description

  • Main idea and details
  • Main idea and details with graphic organizer

Compare-Contrast

  • Whole-whole
  • Part-part

Problem-Solution

  • Problem-evidence-solution-results

Sequence

  • Life cycle
  • Timeline
  • Set of steps and directions

Writing Process

  • Prewriting
  • Drafting
  • Revision
  • Editing
  • Publishing