1. Dr. Marilyn Brouette Briones School Martinez Unified School District
California Consortium for Independent Study
Are your Students College Ready? (Strategies adapted from E.R.W.C.) Expository Reading and Writing Strategies
Dr. Marilyn Brouette
Briones School
Martinez Unified School District
November 17, 2014

2. PURPOSE OF PRESENTATION
Review Common Core ELA Shifts
Share Rhetorical Reading Strategies
Highlighting
Annotating
Marginal Notes
Present Strategies through guided practice with informational text
Support strategies with Google Apps

3. ELA COMMON CORE SHIFTS Build knowledge through content-rich nonfiction
Read, write and speak citing evidence from 
text, both literary and informational
Comprehend complex text
Use and understand academic language

4. MEET THE COMMON CORE CHALLENGE
Focus on informational text
Consider text-based evidence, argument and critical thinking 
Analyze complex text
Integrate academic language

5. DEMONSTRATE INDEPDENDENCE
Build strong content knowledge
Respond to audience, task, purpose, and discipline
Comprehend and critique
Value evidence
Use technology and digital media

6. RHETORICAL READING Highlighting – Annotating - Marginal Notes
Three active reading strategies that ask you to think and make decisions as you read

7. HIGHLIGHTING TIPS Important passages Names of people
Unfamiliar vocabulary
Quotable lines
Key research, statistics & facts
Themes & main ideas

8. READING WITH PURPOSE: ANNOTATION
GET COLLEGE READY WITH CLOSE READING

9. ANNOTATION GUIDE Number the paragraphs
Common Core standards require students to cite and refer to the text
Number the paragraphs to facilitate this task.

10. ANNOTATION SHORT HAND # = Info, statistic or research
                                                                
? = Question or unsure of meaning
* = Important
[ ] = Quotable
# = Info, statistic or research
___= New vocabulary

11. MAKING NOTES IN MARGINS
Write definitions
Ask questions
Translate ideas into your own words
Capture emotional reactions
Make connections…
other books, classes, life experiences
Summarize
Comment on ideas
Predict what will happen

12. READING STRATEGY Chunk the text Break up the text into smaller chunks.
Draw a horizontal line between the introduction, body paragraphs and conclusion.
Ask the student to justify the “chunks.”

13. Read with Purpose Circle Key Terms Names of sources Power verbs
Words that are defined
Terms that are repeated throughout the text
Names of sources
Power verbs
Figurative language

14. WHAT DOES THE AUTHOR SAY?
Summarize each chunk in the left margin.
The chunking allows the student to look at the text in smaller segments and summarize what the author is saying.   

15. RECORD YOUR THINKING
Write brief summary notes to emphasize points made in graphics
Write brief answers to your questions in the margins.
Make a brief outline of the material in the margins.
Summarize important points in your own words in the margins.
State the CONCLUSION in your own words at the end of the article.
Write “Conclusion” in the margin.

16. WHAT IS THE AUTHOR DOING?
In the right margin, describe what the author is doing.
Use power verbs, such as describing, illustrating, arguing, etc.
Represent the information with a picture
Dig deeper into the text to analyze connections

17. STEPS FOR MARKING A TEXT
Tech Twist: Use Google Comment
1. Preview
2. Read
3. Determine author’s purpose
4. Determine the topic
5. Determine the pattern of organization 6. Determine the main idea
7. Go back and mark the text

18. GUIDED PRACTICE ANNOTATING –Article:
“If you want to go to college, learn to Fail”
1. What is the topic of this article?
2. How is the article structured?
3. Why did the author write the article?
4. What is the most important point about the article?

19. CHUNK THE TEXT
Introduction
What is the author’s purpose?

20. Body Paragraphs
Cite evidence the author uses to prove his assertion

21. CONCLUSION
What emotion does the author appeal to (pathos)?

22. WANT TO GET TO COLLEGE? LEARN TO FAIL!
Pair Share: Prediction – What is the author’s purpose?
Want to Get Into College? Learn to Fail Education Week, February 1, 2012 By Angel B. Pérez Genre: Commentary
1 I ask every student I interview for admission to my institution, Pitzer College, the same question,
“What do you look forward to the most in college?”
I was stunned and delighted recently when a student
sat across from me at a Starbucks in New York City and replied, “I look forward to the possibility of  failure.” Of course, this is not how most students
respond to the question when sitting before the person
who can make decisions about their academic  futures, but this young man took a risk.

23. WANT TO GET TO COLLEGE? LEARN TO FAIL!
Pair Share: Whose perspective is addressed?
2 “You see, my parents have never let me fail,” he said.
“When I want to take  a chance at something, they remind me
it’s not a safe route to take. Taking a  more rigorous course or trying an activity
I may not succeed in, they tell me,  will ruin my chances at college admission.
Even the sacrifice of staying up late  to do something unrelated to school,
they see as a risk to my academic work  and college success.”

24. Use Google Comments for annotation
Use Google Document Comments for annotation

25. Google Tech Apps Tech Tool Use/Purpose Diigo https://www.diigo.com
Annotate, highlight, create post-its, and make a library of sources for any internet website. Add to browser and annotate as you read online.
Notability (apple store)
Digitally annotate, great for close-readings
Thinglink
Add annotations, photos, videos to pictures

26. Google Tech Apps Tech Tool Use/Purpose Skitch
Digital annotation: An arrow for pointing things out, a text tool, rectangle you can surround objects with, a highlighter, a "pixelizer" for blurring out details, and a crop tool. 
Easel.ly
Infographic Maker
Infotopio
Google powered source for student research

27. Google Tech Apps Tech Tool Use/Purpose Mindmup https://www.mindmup.com
Create mind maps and graphic organizers
Readability
Unclutters webpages for easier reading
Awesome Screenshot
Capture the screen and annotate, crop it, etc.

28. REVIEW Presentation included: Highlighting Annotating Marginal Notes
Common Core ELA Shifts
Rhetorical Reading Strategies
Highlighting
Annotating
Marginal Notes
Guided practice with informational text
Google Apps

29. Contact Information
Dr. Marilyn Brouette
Briones School
(925) ext. 3884
Thank you for your kind attention.
Special Thanks to C.S.U. E.R.W.C. for permission to use the article “Want to Get into College, Learn to Fail.”