Notes
Slide Show
Outline
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Maximizing Your Impact:
Co-teaching Information Literacy
and Reading Comprehension Strategies
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Handouts
  • https://storytrail.com/Impact/presentations.htm


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"Objectives"
  • Objectives:
  • At the end of this workshop, you will be able to:
  • Define seven reading comprehension strategies and make connections between them and information literacy skills (AASL Standards for the 21st Century Learner).
  • Identify research-based instructional strategies that can be incorporated into classroom-library collaborative lessons.
  • Specify and practice coteaching strategies.


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Core Concept
  • Reading advocacy is important work for teacher-librarians


  • BUT it
  • does not equal reading instruction!
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The Metaphor of the Elephant
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The Metaphor of the Elephant
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The Metaphor of the Elephant
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The Metaphor of the Elephant
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The Metaphor of the Elephant
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The Metaphor of the Elephant
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The Metaphor of the Elephant
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“No News, or That’s What Killed the Dog”
  • Activating and Building Background Knowledge


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“No News, or That’s What Killed the Dog”
  • Questioning


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“No News, or That’s What Killed the Dog”
  • Determining Main Ideas


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“No News, or That’s What Killed the Dog”
  • Synthesizing


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Standards Integration Puzzle
  • Sit in groups of four (or five).
  • Shuffle and deal the puzzle parts.
  • Take turns reading the library learning standards puzzle pieces.
  • Determine keyword or keywords in the LLS.
  • Discuss as a group which reading comprehension strategy is compatible with that LLS.
  • Place the piece on the board under that strategy.
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The Metaphor of the Elephant
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The Metaphor of the Elephant
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The Metaphor of the Elephant
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The Metaphor of the Elephant
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The Metaphor of the Elephant
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The Metaphor of the Elephant
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The Metaphor of the Elephant
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ALL Reading Comprehension Strategies
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ALL Reading Comprehension Strategies
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Researched-based Instructional Strategies
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Researched-based
Instructional Strategies
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Supplement 3N: Teacher Resource
Venn Diagram - Advanced Lesson
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Researched-based
Instructional Strategies
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Supplement 3H – Category Web
Advanced Lesson
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Researched-based
Instructional Strategies
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Supplement 8K: Sample Reflective Paragraph
Advanced Lesson
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Researched-based
Instructional Strategies
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Supplement 7F: Main Ideas (Character Map)
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Supplement 9S:
Notemaking Graphic Organizer
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Researched-based
Instructional Strategies
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Non-linguistic Representation with Labeling
(Advancing Lesson Extension)
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Researched-based
Instructional Strategies
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Researched-based
Instructional Strategies
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Chapter 3: Activating or Building Background Knowledge – Emerging Lesson
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Supplement 7H:
Character Summary and Presentation
Rubric
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Researched-based
Instructional Strategies
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Supplement 4H: Owling Admit Slip
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"“Teaching is too difficult"
  • “Teaching is too difficult
    to do alone;

    collaborate
    with your teacher-librarian.”


  • Poster from the Dewitt Wallace-Reader’s Digest
    Library Power Project, circa 1994
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Coteaching Strategies
  • One Teaching, One Supporting
  • Center Teaching
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Coteaching Strategies
  • Parallel Teaching


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Coteaching Strategies
  • Alternative Teaching
  • Team Teaching
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Team Teaching Strategies
  • One educator reads a text, the other records students’ ideas
  • Jointly model the learning tasks
  • Provide think-alouds to show a diversity
    of responses
  •  Demonstrate cooperative learning, discussion procedures, and debating techniques
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Building Background Knowledge:
The Elephant’s Tail
  • Chapter 3: Advanced Lesson
    Collaborative Strategies for Teaching Reading Comprehension: Maximizing Your Impact
  • by Judi Moreillon
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Advancing Lesson:
Sing Down the Rain
  • Instructional Strategies: Cues and Questions, Classifying, Notemaking and Summarizing, and Comparing
  • Lesson Length: 3 or 4 Sessions
  • Purpose: The purpose of this lesson is to provide background knowledge to prepare students to read about an unfamiliar cultural tradition and to make text-to-world connections between the worldviews suggested by these traditional practices and those of present-day U.S. mainstream culture.
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Anchor Texts:
Sing Down the Rain
and Tohono O’odham Internet Pathfinder
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Standards
Content-area Standards:

  • Reading keywords: use graphic organizers to clarify the meaning of text; use context to determine the meaning of words; use reference sources to determine the meaning of words; develop vocabulary in context; describe the historical and cultural aspects found in cross-cultural works of literature; fluency
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Standards
Content-area Standards:

  • Science keywords: ecology; describe the interaction between human populations and the environment
  • Social studies keywords: describe the different perspectives of Native American tribes; human cultures; locate information using a variety of resources; research skills
  • Educational technology keywords: technology research skills
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Standards
AASL Standards for the 21st-Century Learner:

  • Use prior and background knowledge as context for new learning. (1.1.2)
  • Read, view, and listen for information presented in any format (e.g., textual, visual, media, digital) in order to make inferences and gather meaning. (1.1.6)
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Standards
AASL 21st-Century Learner Standards:

  • Collaborate with others to broaden and deepen understanding. (1.1.9)
  • Organize knowledge so it is useful. (2.1.2)
  • Connect ideas to own interests and previous knowledge and experience. (4.1.5)
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Lesson Objectives:
After researching and performing Sing Down the Rain, students will be able to

  • 1. Identify the need for background knowledge.
  • 2. Make notes from websites and print resources.
  • 3. Use the background knowledge they gathered to understand new text.
  • 4. Develop fluency through the practice and performance of a choral reading.
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Lesson Objectives:
After researching and performing Sing Down the Rain, students will be able to

  • 5. Identify which information helped them better comprehend the narrative poem.
  • 6. Analyze and compare the cultural practices and ecological view of traditional Tohono O’odham culture with present-day U.S. mainstream culture.
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Field Tested by:
  • Teacher-Librarian Marilyn Teicher


  • and Fifth-grade Classroom Teacher
    Massiel Garcia


  • P.S. 86


  • Bronx, New York
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Preparation
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Presenting Literature (Whole Class)
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Co-Presenting Literature (Whole Class)
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Identifying Need for Information
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Reading in Small Groups
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Completing Graphic Organizers
 in Small Groups
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Supplement 3H: Categorizing Information
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Supplement 3H: Categorizing Information
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Supplement 3M: Citing Sources
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Learning Reflection
  • How do we recognize the need for background information?
  • When we need it, where can we get background information?
  • How does background information help us comprehend text?
  • Why is it important to compare new information with prior knowledge?
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Two Heads Are Better than One
  • I am a teacher.
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Handouts
  • https://storytrail.com/Impact




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Collaborative Strategies
for Teaching Reading Comprehension:
Maximizing Your Impact