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Article of the Week A common core literacy gold mine! - PowerPoint Presentation

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Article of the Week A common core literacy gold mine! - PPT Presentation

Can students recognize figures Informational texts can help From Readicide One way I addressed this problem in my classroom was by adding a weekly reading task I call The ArticleoftheWeek These are realworld writings taken from ID: 691535

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Slide1

Article of the Week

A common core literacy gold mine! Slide2

Can students recognize figures?Informational texts can help!Slide3

From Readicide

“One way I addressed this problem in my classroom was by adding a weekly

reading task

I call ‘The Article-of-the-Week.’ These are real-world writings taken from

straight news

stories, essays, editorials, blogs, and speeches

. I cull them from newspapers

, magazines

, and websites. Sometimes the

articles

are

related

to the unit

we

are currently

studying and sometimes they are completely

unrelated

, but all the

articles have

one purpose--to broaden my students’ knowledge of the world. This past school

year, for example, my students read and studied more than thirty different articles.”Slide4

Quick Facts

● AoW is distributed every Monday and collected every Friday.

Ideas for grading:

○ Annotate the article

A

nswer questions

○ Write a reflectionSlide5

Why I Use AoW

As a direct result of living impoverished lives

students

can’t make connections

between literature and real world events. Slide6

Teaching Annotation

Annotation needs to be taught

.

Annotation needs to be

modeled

.

Annotation will be

unique to the individual

. Slide7

What is Text Annotation?

While reading, students mark the pages for Important information

Text meaning or key details

Ideas and

questionsVocab markingsSlide8

Annotation creates MARGINALIA Slide9

Vocabulary Encounters

Content Vocabulary

Everyday Vocabulary

Annotate for vocabulary issues:

Level 1 – Words the student has never heard before & never knew existed

Level 2 – the student has heard the word, but likely could not use it correctly.

Level 3 – The student has heard the word and COULD probably use it, but needs some support

Level 4 – The student knows and uses the word with no problem. Slide10

Friday Discussion

Spend time on Friday discussing the article/music/painting/sport.

Student generated questions

Participation is required

Grade annotationsSlide11

Let’s Practice

We will read and annotate the same articleI will demonstrate/share the method I use for monitoring and tracking discussion participation

Finally I will give you a copy of the guidelines and assessment info I give to students. Slide12

Where to get good articles?

www.newsela.comRequires registration (free) but there is also a paid version.

Allows the teacher to adjust the

lexile

level of the article being read

, so that the article can be leveled for the needs of the students. A great resource for SPL. Slide13

Another source

www.theweek.comA news site with fairly short articles – summarized from reputable sources.

One of my favorite pieces of this web site is 10 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW TODAY which features up to the minute current events Slide14

www.kellygallagher.org

Under the resource section is his ARTICLE OF THE WEEK. He posts the new one each week, that he uses in class.

Archived Articles

He has obtained copyright permissions to reformat the articles from the sources he obtains them from, so they look a bit different when printed. Slide15

http://

vms.vale.k12.or.us/articles-week

An archive of articles of the week from Vale Middle School, with new ones posted weekly

Sources are given, AND these can be downloaded in MS Word form, to make printing and copying MUCH easierSlide16

APPS for AoW

ZITEAn app

that allows you to set up preferences for the topics you want to read.

It will offer suggestions and you rate the articles with a thumbs up / down and incorporating that along with data about which articles you share via social networking an email, it uses an algorithm to develop a profile of the kinds of things you most like to read.