1. Orienting to More Complex Texts
Lesson 2: Unit 2 Tackling Complexity of Nonfiction

3. Teaching point
Today I want to teach you that when readers orient themselves to complex nonfiction texts, they use text features and their knowledge of the topic to help. But a you begin reading, you also need to live in the gray area for a while, to tolerate confusion, knowing the focus of the text may revealed slowly.

4. Challenging reading-reading in the grey area.
Books now may not have a crystal clear tables of contents
Or spell out what you will find in each chapter
Introductory paragraphs may not spell out the subtopics that follow
These texts will require you to live in a gray area where things aren’t totally clear.

7. First: Use the cover and the back blurb to piece together the book’s topic and anticipate some of the sections

8. So, what can we predict?

9. So, what can we predict?
Maybe sections on different ways animals defend themselves, from poison, shooting blood, popping out bones
I am also expecting a section on who animals are defending themselves from?

10. Second: we can use what we know about the topic, animal defenses, and the blurb to predict the sections of the book.

11. Before we even read we have:
Oriented ourselves to the text

12. Your turn:

13. Time for you to try…
Pull out your books and sitting here, get started orienting yourself to your own texts.
Just look at the front and back covers and see if you can anticipate how the book will go.
Think about what the author might teach you an dyou he might do it
Try to name out the sections.
Go further, look at the table of contents, is it confusing? YEAH! Than means you will learn.

14. How should reading sound?
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How should reading sound?

15. How should reading sound?
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How should reading sound?
There’s one more way your texts are becoming more complex to read. Sometimes its tricky to determine how your reading should sound. What is the mood of a passage –is it scary, for example or ironic? Become accustomed to sometimes needing a few tries, making sure the voice in your mind conveys the tone and meaning the author intends.