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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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.