1. Reading Strategically,
Thinking Critically: Making
Connections with
Nonfiction Texts
Presented by Dawn M. Little, M.Ed.
Dlittle@linkstoliteracy.com
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2. Builds fluency, vocabulary, background
knowledge, and comprehension
An efficient way for students to expand
their vocabulary and concepts and share
and understand texts (Sharer, et al.,
2005)
Meets the Common Core Standards
Why read nonfiction aloud?
4. “The most general approaches to
higher-order thinking is the
Anderson and Krathwohl
(2001)division of learning into
learning for recall and learning
for transfer” (Brookhart, 2010)
5. Text-to-Self
Text-to-Text Let’s move
Higher Order
to. . .
Thinking Skills and
Text-to-World Connections
Literal Connections
6. Creating
Evaluating
Analyzing
Applying
Understanding
Remembering
Thinking Critically: Using Bloom’s
Taxonomy to Make Connections
7. “[Students] can regurgitate text on a
literal level, but increasingly, they
have trouble with heavier
intellectual lifting” (Gallagher, 2009)
8. We want students
to be able to
transfer
knowledge of a
skill or strategy to
their independent
reading and
content area
reading.
9. Activator: Who do you think we will read
about today?
With the person next to you, discuss who
you think the read aloud may be about.