Real Rigor: Textbooks, online and offline texts

Real Rigor: Textbooks, online and offline texts

Dr. Diane KernURI EDC 448

Seminar 2

Dr. Diane KernURI EDC 448

Seminar 2

What we’ll do today…What we’ll do today…

Evaluate textbooks using qualitative, quantitative, reader/task measures and try out

Link to Text set assignment Discuss the place of online texts and a variety of print texts

(such as trade books) in the secondary school classroom Consider your guiding principles for choosing online and

offline texts to support/enhance your content area instruction Booktasting

Evaluate textbooks using qualitative, quantitative, reader/task measures and try out

Link to Text set assignment Discuss the place of online texts and a variety of print texts

(such as trade books) in the secondary school classroom Consider your guiding principles for choosing online and

offline texts to support/enhance your content area instruction Booktasting

Admit SlipAdmit Slip

Think about your note taking for Tovani’s Chapters 1, 2, and 4.

Which graphic organizer did you use?

What worked? What didn’t work?

How might you use this or adapt this in your own teaching?

Think about your note taking for Tovani’s Chapters 1, 2, and 4.

Which graphic organizer did you use?

What worked? What didn’t work?

How might you use this or adapt this in your own teaching?

Try one quantitative approach and analyze qualitative

Try one quantitative approach and analyze qualitative

Fry readability with the textbook you brought to class

Flesch-Kincaid calculator with a portion of the textbook you brought or an online text

URL calculator with a website you’d use with adolescents

*links on wikispace: 448—PowerPoints/Sessions—Seminar 2

Fry readability with the textbook you brought to class

Flesch-Kincaid calculator with a portion of the textbook you brought or an online text

URL calculator with a website you’d use with adolescents

*links on wikispace: 448—PowerPoints/Sessions—Seminar 2

Practical implications for our classrooms…

Practical implications for our classrooms…

Know our texts, our guiding principles, CCSS push for text complexity

Make knowledgeable, quality choices of text material

Use assessment of texts to inform instruction Make informed text book adoptions Use text book materials “strategically” to bring

our students and texts together (not apart!)

Know our texts, our guiding principles, CCSS push for text complexity

Make knowledgeable, quality choices of text material

Use assessment of texts to inform instruction Make informed text book adoptions Use text book materials “strategically” to bring

our students and texts together (not apart!)

Teaching reading with textsTeaching reading with texts

Offline texts Online texts Required textbooks

READER + TEXT + STRATEGIES = MEANING Before reading During Reading After Reading…link to lesson plan

Offline texts Online texts Required textbooks

READER + TEXT + STRATEGIES = MEANING Before reading During Reading After Reading…link to lesson plan

Know our guiding principles when selecting texts

Know our guiding principles when selecting texts

Personal criteria Multicultural literature criteria Evaluating websites

Personal criteria Multicultural literature criteria Evaluating websites

Exit SlipExit Slip

Booktasting! “Taste” a variety of tradebooks or surf the

web for online texts that meet YOUR criteria for use in your classroom.

Share your criteria with colleagues

Booktasting! “Taste” a variety of tradebooks or surf the

web for online texts that meet YOUR criteria for use in your classroom.

Share your criteria with colleagues