• Dr. Allen taught high school reading and English for 20 years
• At the University of Central Florida she continued teaching • She is an internationally respected researcher, consultant,
and expert on adolescent literacy• Dr. Allen is the author of several professional development
books including Yellow Brick Roads, It’s Never Too Late, Tools for Teaching Content Literacy, and Inside Words
• She is the author of Recorded Books reading programs Plugged-in to Reading and Plugged-in to Nonfiction
Plugged-in to Nonfiction
Teacher-Directed Teacher-Directed InstructionInstruction
Peer-Supported Peer-Supported LearningLearning
Self-Directed Self-Directed LearningLearning
The 3-Step Instructional Model
8 Power Strategies1. Content/specialized
vocabulary2. Text features3. Text structures4. Monitoring
understanding5. Previewing text6. Activating background
knowledge7. Questioning8. Noting, organizing,
and retrieving information
Power Strategy Overview
Power Strategy Overview continued …
Power Strategy Overview continued …
Teacher-Directed Teacher-Directed InstructionInstruction
The first step toward engaging adolescent and teenagestudents is teacher-led discussion. The Teacher Guide outlines the carefully chosen Core Text, offering teacher-directed strategy lessons and step-by step guides for classroom implementation. This allows the teacher to model each of the eight power strategies needed to help students negotiate a variety of nonfiction texts.
Core TextsCore Texts
Peer-Supported Peer-Supported LearningLearning
Using the gradual release of responsibility model, teachers shift students from whole-class, teacher-directed instruction to guided learning in small groups: Power Strategy Groups. The combination of stimulating texts and a focus on a specific learning strategy creates an environment that supports students’ success with nonfiction text. After a modeled lesson the teacher can observe students’ progress as they practice the strategy on their own.
Power Strategy TextsPower Strategy Texts
Self-Directed Self-Directed LearningLearning
The final step in the release of responsibility gives students a chance to experience engaging nonfiction on their own. Using the learning strategies encountered in the other two steps, students use a wide variety of supports, including audio, to understand the text. When used with the creative and challenging strategy lessons, Independent Reading books give students the opportunity to become active, involved readers.
Independent Reading TextsIndependent Reading Texts
Everything You Need
• Teacher Guide• Resource Binder• Audio support and print books
– Teacher-Directed Instruction• 24 print copies and 2 Recorded Books copies
of the 1 Core Text – Peer-Supported Learning
• 8 print copies and 2 Recorded Books copies of the 8 Power Strategy Group Texts
– Self-Directed Learning• 2 print copies and 2 Recorded Books copies
(where applicable) of the Independent Reading Texts (an average of 30 titles/Level)
Everything You Need
continued … • 8 Full-color copies of each of the 8 Power Strategy
Learning Guides• 5 Copies of each of the Independent Reading
Guides• Dr. Allen’s professional development books Tools
for Teaching Content Literacy, Inside Words, and On the Same Page
• CD with pre- and post- assessments and Power Strategy assessments
• Booktalk cards• 2 corrugated cardboard bookshelves
Tools for the Teacher—The Teacher Guide
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Implementing the Lessons—The Resource Binder
The Resource Binder contains reproducible versions of all the graphic organizers, handouts, and student activities required to implement Plugged-in to Nonfiction.
Power Strategy Learning Guides
• TEACHERS will:
– Introduce & model the power strategy lesson
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• STUDENTS will:– Discover applications
for the Power Strategy– Explore nonfiction text
using the Power Strategy– Practice the Power
Strategy with peers
• “Go high tech!” provides technology challenges• Group projects for authentic assessment• Multiple-choice and open-ended assessment• “Now You Are in Charge!” guides students through the text
Independent Reading Guides
• Independent Reading Guides include …– Letter to the Reader– Anticipation activity– Specialized vocabulary– Reading for information– Writing activity– Text-to-Text
Connections– Inquiry activity– Multiple-choice and
open-ended questions
Skills and Strategies Matrix• Every text has a skills and strategies matrix located in the
Teacher Guide. Each skill is linked to a particular strategy including … – Reading Strategies - Text Connections– Writing Strategies - Inquiry– Writing Fluency Activities - - Formative Assessment– Content/Specialized - Summative Assessments
Vocabulary Strategies
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