Exploring the Literacy Standards: Diverse Formats & Multiple Texts

Review R.8 Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, including the validity of the reasoning as well as the relevance and sufficiency of the evidence. What graphic organizer(s) did you try with students? What successes or challenges did you experience?

Focus Standards R.7 Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse formats and media, including visually and quantitatively, as well as in words. R.9 Analyze how two or more texts address similar themes or topics in order to build knowledge or to compare the approaches the authors take.

Focus Standards Diverse Formats and Media –Text and video –Text and visual –Text and audio (actual recording) –Text and podcast (student generated)

Focus Standards “Analytic cubism (1909–1912) is a style of painting Picasso developed along with Georges Braque using monochrome brownish and neutral colors. Both artists took apart objects and ‘analyzed’ them in terms of their shapes.” Text taken from

Focus Standards Multiple Texts –Literary and informational text –Pro and con text –Informational text comparison –Story and poem

Focus Standards “Kristallnacht was a series of coordinated attacks against Jews throughout Nazi Germany and parts of Austria on 9– 10 November German authorities looked on without intervening. The attacks left the streets covered with broken glass from the windows of Jewish- owned stores, buildings, and synagogues.”* Broken Windows, Broken Dreams Kristallnacht destructive, discriminatory menacing, frightening, disturbing violation of people, property, and peace depressing, crushing, frustrating hopeless, despair broken dreams *Text taken from

Graphic Organizers Diverse Formats & Multiple Texts Compare-Contrast* Compare-Contrast Matrix* Compare-Contrast T-Chart* Venn Columns* Venn Diagram

Assignment Assign at least one of the graphic organizers to students. May or may not ask students to write a paragraph as a result of the graphic organizer. Bring stories of successes or challenges to the next meeting/workshop.

Review Key Ideas and Details Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text. Inference Main Idea Making Connections

Review Craft and Structure Interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text, including determining technical, connotative, and figurative meanings, and analyze how specific word choices shape meaning or tone Analyze the structure of texts, including how specific sentences, paragraphs, and larger portions of the text (e.g., a section, chapter, scene, or stanza) relate to each other and the whole Assess how point of view or purpose shapes the content and style of a text. Word Choice Text Structure POV & AP

Review Integration of Knowledge and Ideas Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse formats and media, including visually and quantitatively, as well as in words Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, including the validity of the reasoning as well as the relevance and sufficiency of the evidence Analyze how two or more texts address similar themes or topics in order to build knowledge or to compare the approaches the authors take. Diverse Formats Argument Multiple Texts