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CCIRA February 2012 Kylene Beers Robert E. Probst Twitter.com/ kbeers Beers.probst@gma il The Notice and Note Lessons: Strategies that Unlock Literary Texts [email protected]
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In this presenation, you'll see information about 7 new strategies we've developed to help readers, especially struggling readers, read novels at a deeper level. This work will be published in 2012 in a new book by Heinemann titled The Notice and Note Lessons
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CCIRA
February 2012
Kylene Beers
Robert E. Probst
Twitter.com/kbeers
Beers.probst@gmail
The Notice and Note Lessons: Strategies that Unlock Literary Texts
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STRATEGIES AND LESSONS FOR IMPROVING COMPREHENSION
HEINEMANN, SEPTEMBER 2012
Notice and Note:
Results of survey of 2000 teachers, grades 4-12
Top MS Books The Outsiders The Giver Holes Freak the Mighty Hatchet Esperanza Rising Watsons Go to Birmingham Number the Stars Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry Bud, Not Buddy Tuck Everlasting Bridge to Terabithia Walk Two Moons Among the Hidden
Top Elementary Books Holes Bridge to Terabithia Bud, Not Buddy Hatchet Maniac Magee Number the Stars Esperanza Rising Walk Two Moons The Giver Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry Tuck Everlasting Watsons To to Birmingham The Cay Riding Freedom
Results of survey continued
Top HS Books Night Of Mice and Men Speak Romeo and Juliet Lord of the Flies Animal Farm Grapes of Wrath A Separate Peace Anthem House on Mango Street Lord of the Flies Monster Night
What we did
Read each book repeatedly asking ourselves, “What’s here, in the text, we could teach students to notice.”
Found those text features and then asked what question should students ask themselves once they find those features.
Took the lessons into classrooms and shared them with hundreds of teachers for feedback.
Culled the list of lessons to the most important 7 lessons.
Let’s learn the first one . . .
Contrasts and
Contradictions
The character acts in a way that is contradictory to how he has acted or that contrasts with how we would act or that reveals a difference among characters.
Text Clue: Author shows actions or feelings that we haven’t seen before.
Question:Why would the character act (feel) this way?
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The Notice and Note Text Clues
Contrasts and Contradictions
Ah-Ha MomentsTough QuestionsWords from the WiserLast LineAgain and AgainMemory Moment
Erin—September, 6th grade
“Um, I think that, I think that next, well next. I think that well, I think more is going to happen with her being with them. And then she will probably go home. Because they don’t seem like forever kidnappers.”
Erin—January, 6th grade
Here, right when Luke, he decides to go to the house, so he had just been thinking about it, but here, he decided to go, well, I noticed that because he was doing something different, like a contradiction on how he had been acting, and so I noticed that. And that made me think that Luke, he’s like maybe getting braver some. But that’s going to be a problem because he needs to stay hidden. So, I think maybe that what’s going to happen is about him not wanting to stay hidden. Maybe like for the conflict.
Mark—August, 8th grade
I guess I think that maybe, I guess that, that something else is going to happen.
Mark—November, 8th grade
I stopped here because notice how it said that he had a sad smile. Smiles aren’t sad. I noticed that because it was really a contradiction and I wondered why he would be sad and smiling. I think that the Giver is smiling because he’s still trying to make Jonas feel good about this assignment but he also knows something that Jonas doesn’t know. This part made me think that something important is finally going to happen that’s about Jonas finding out something.
Megan—October, 7th grade
Megan: Miss—look! It’s that again and again. The story of the Denmark king. See, she’s remembering it again. Where was it first? Where was it? Can you find it? I don’t know where it was but this is like the, I don’t know, like it was a lot, that she keeps remembering this story, remember that her dad told her about the Denmark king and how anyone would fight for him?
Megan
Kylene: Why do you think this keeps coming up again and again?
Megan: Because. Because. I think it is because, oh, I know, see how she keeps remembering that anyone would do anything to save him. Oh—this is that foreshadowing. Here it is! This is foreshadowing. Oh my God. It’s right here! Do you think Mrs. Lowry knows she did this?
Ah-Ha
The character realizes or comes to understand something that therefore changes his thinking or his actions
Text Clues I suddenly realized… Now I understood why… It hit me with a force… I knew what I had to do…
Question: How might this change things?
Tough Questions
A character asks himself or a trusted friend a tough question or tough questions that reveal concerns (internal conflict) the character has.
Text Clue: Questions, often asked of self, that
can’t be answered Sometimes offered as statement, “I
wonder if…”
Question:What does this question make me
wonder about?
Memory
Moment
The author interrupts the flow of the story by letting the character remember something.
Text Clue: “I remember…” “The memory flooded back…” “It was a strange memory…” “She suddenly remembered…”
Question: Why might this memory be
important?
Last Line
An author ends the chapter (segment) with a last line that adds surprising information or suggests a new idea
Text Clue: A single-sentence that stands alone as
a paragraph Begins with But, And, or Or Asks a question Might be in italics
Question: What does this line make me wonder
about?
