1. What causes you the biggest problems when reading a textbook?
Bellwork
What causes you the biggest problems when reading a textbook?
Remember you need to write for the full 5 minutes in order to get credit.

2. What are text features? Some common nonfiction text features are:
• Table of contents
• Glossary
• Index
• Headings and subheadings
• Text boxes and sidebars
• Photographs and illustrations
• Captions and labels
• Graphics (maps, diagrams, charts, etc.)

4. Your Brain

5. Before you read...prepare your brain
Everytime you read a text book.....
Before you read...prepare your brain
1. Survey (Look at pictures, graphs, bold and colored text, boxes, all of the non-text stuff)
2. Think (What do you already know about this subject? What does it remind you about?)
Set a purpose (Why are you reading this?)

7. As you read...use your brain
Everytime you read a text book.....
As you read...use your brain
1. Read small sections at a time
2. Stop…..and… ask, “How does this connect to what I already know?” “Does it make sense?” “If it doesn’t make sense, what can I do?”
3. Write (summarize, put down important facts)

8. After you read...it's all in your brain
Everytime you read a text book.....
After you read...it's all in your brain
1. Check to see what you remember
2. Think about what you read
3. Use what you read

9. Bellwork
Why is it important to preview before you read, read in small chunks and review when you are done reading a nonfiction text?
Remember you must write for the full 5 minutes in order to get credit

11. Bellwork

12. Strategies to Good Reading
1. They use existing knowledge to make sense of
new information
2. They ask questions about the text before,
during and after reading.
3. They draw inferences from the text.
4. They monitor their comprehension.
5. They use “fix up” strategies when meaning
breaks down.
6. They determine what is important.
7. They synthesize information to create new
thinking.
(Tovani, pg. 17)

13. Getting "unstuck" 1) Make a connection between the text and your life,
Other ways of getting “unstuck” when reading and one finds themselves unable to comprehend (remember) the words they just read are as follows:
1) Make a connection between the text and your life,
knowledge of the world and another text.
2) Make a prediction
3) Stop and think about what you have already read.
4) Ask yourself a question and try to answer it.
5) Reflect in writing on what you have read.
6) Visualize.
7) Use print conventions
8) Retell what you’ve read.
9) Reread.
10) Notice patterns in text structure.
11) Adjust your reading rate: slow down or speed up.

15. Some common nonfiction text structures are:
Cause and Effect: provides reasons or gives explanations for how or why
something happens
Problem and Solution: problems are identified and solutions are discussed
Question and Answer: a question is posed, followed by a specific answer
Compare and Contrast: discusses two ideas and examines how they are alike
and/or different
Description: main ideas are supported by descriptive details
Sequence: information is given in a particular order

16. Timeline ClarisWorks file .pdf file Flow Chart Graphic Organizers
                  
ClarisWorks file
.pdf file
Flow Chart
                               
Sequencing
Questions to Consider:
What happened?
What is the sequence of events?
What are the substages?

17. Modified Venn ClarisWorks file .pdf file Ladder Map
Compare and Contrast
Questions to Consider:
What are the similar and different qualities of these things?
What qualities of each thing correspond to one another? In what way?
Somers CSD examples
NYS Ed examples
Modified Venn
                   
ClarisWorks file
.pdf file
Ladder Map
                               

18. Bubble Map Describing Qualities Questions to Consider:
What are you describing?
What are its qualities?
Bubble Map
           

19. Questions to Consider:
Point of View
Questions to Consider:
What are the various perspectives?
How do they impact behavior?
What contributed to their development?
Graphic Organizer
                          

21. Questions to Consider:
Problem Solving
Questions to Consider:
What is the problem?
What are the possible solutions?
Which solution is best?
How will you implement this solution?
Somers CSD example
Graphic Organizer
                             

22. Multiple Causes Map ClarisWorks file .pdf file Multiple Effects Map
Cause and Effect
Questions to Consider
What are the causes and effects of this event?
What might happen next?
Somers CSD example
Graphic Organizers
Multiple Causes Map
                    
ClarisWorks file
.pdf file
Multiple Effects Map
                     

23. signal words after afterward as soon as before during finally first
onological Sequence
after
afterward
as soon as
before
during
finally
first
following
immediately
initally
later
meanwhile
next
not long after
now
on (date)
preceding
second
soon
then
third
today
until
when
back to top
Comparison/Contrast
although
as well as
as opposed to
both
but
compared with
different from
either...or
even though
however
instead of
in common
on the other hand
otherwise
similar to
similarly
still
yet
back to top
Description
above
across
along
appears to be
as in
behind
below
beside
between
down
in back of
in front of
looks like
near
on top of
onto
outside
over
such as
to the right/left
under
signal words
back to top
Generalization/Principle
additionally
always
because of
clearly
conclusively
first
for instance
for example
furthermore
generally
however
if...then
in fact
it could be argued that
moreover
most convincing
never
not only...but also
often
second
therefore
third
truly
typically
back to top
Process/Cause
accordingly
as a result of
because
begins with
consequently
effects of
finally
first
for this reason
how to
how
if...then
in order to
is caused by
leads/led to
may be due to
next
so that
steps involved
therefore
thus
when...then