1 Texts to Read Using premium resources to improve reading interest and comprehension.

2 What will students read? Textbooks Supplementary Materials Problems: - Interest in reading material is low - Ability to comprehend is low Solutions: HI--LO Texts - High Interest when they read something relevant or current to them. - Lower reading levels assure better comprehension for emerging and growing readers.

3 Lexile Scores

4 Choosing texts for students 4

5 Comprehension 5

6 Grade-Level Equivalents 6

7 The All-Access Pass Premium Subscription content Free to teachers, students in Utah Magazines Newspapers Professional Journals Images Maps Audio and music

8 The web site 8

9 For comparison’s sake Textbook passage 2. Magazine article

10 DEMO - EBSCO Student Research Center Choose the Database from the “General Reference Collection” Example: EBSCO Choose service Example: “Student Research Center” Search for a topic Example: “bullying” “Filter results by”… Example: Magazines “Narrow Results By”... Example: Subject > “Facebook (Web resource)” Click on the article for: Citation PDF Full Text HTML Full Text

11 DEMO - SIRS Issue Researcher Choose the Database from the “General Reference Collection” Example: SIRS Issue Researcher 3. Search for a topic Example: “Energy Dependency” from “Leading Issues” 4. “Sort results by”... Example: “Lexile Score - Low to High” 5. “Narrow your results”... Example: Newspapers 6. “Go to”... Summary Citation PDF copies of original articles Audio MP3 of the article (computer read)

12 Variations Have students conduct the search for relevant texts (advanced). Give students a focused search to get one or two articles on a pre-selected term or topic Research practice: ask students to cite two or more pieces of evidence from an article that supports a claim. Ask students to search the newspaper for articles related to classroom discussion, and include the reading of those articles as a review of content discussions in class.

13 What Can Go Wrong? Access Do I need to print or make copies? Too Long What portion of the text should I use? Time to search When will I find time to find texts online?

14 What Can Go Wrong? Fluent and Disfluent readers in the same class Option 1: Homogenous grouping Option 2: Heterogeneous grouping This kind of reading builds fluency!

15 Assessment Pre- and Post-: Check understanding of key vocabulary Post: Using brief comprehension questions Impact: End of level testing is impacted by comprehension of snippets of text

16 Online Tutorials Click on Support Materials link at top of page Online tutorials link near bottom of the page… Example: Leading Issues through SIRS Issues Researcher ontext/SIRS_Issues_Researcher_Context.shtml ontext/SIRS_Issues_Researcher_Context.shtml Get Help from your Library Media Teacher 16

17 Your turn... Generate a list of four lessons that you could find an article that could make the topic more relevant for your students. Share with neighbors/group.

18 References