It is very important that we provide students with the resources to be successful in our age of information. Students need to know how to find reliable data and how to evaluate the information for validity and reliability. We need to teach students how to satisfy their queries with tried and true methods.
With the new informational library, I will teach students strategies for comprehending texts for authentic purposes. When analyzing texts, students will receive instruction on six strategies that students should master: questioning, summarizing, inferencing, connecting, predicting, and visualizing. They will use the books in reading and writing workshop as well as for science and social studies. The texts will be used as mentor texts, shared reading, independent reading, and for small group instruction.
I recently read an article called Informational Text Strategies by Cambium Learning Group (2011) which states, “Informational text is a part of everything we do in our Information Age society.” As adults, we read and use informational texts every day in many different ways. We read the local newspaper, find advice in self-help books, derive answers about everything from home improvement to makeup right from our devices. Unfortunately, students do not have access to many informational sources in their daily lives.
Many students prefer reading informational texts, because it piques their natural curiosity and wonderings. We can engage more students in school and make them life-long learners by providing them with books they enjoy.
I am asking for your help in building a classroom library where students have access to many diverse high-quality informational texts. Please consider becoming a partner with us to mold our future citizens into critical thinkers and global citizens.
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It is very important that we provide students with the resources to be successful in our age of information. Students need to know how to find reliable data and how to evaluate the information for validity and reliability. We need to teach students how to satisfy their queries with tried and true methods.
With the new informational library, I will teach students strategies for comprehending texts for authentic purposes. When analyzing texts, students will receive instruction on six strategies that students should master: questioning, summarizing, inferencing, connecting, predicting, and visualizing. They will use the books in reading and writing workshop as well as for science and social studies. The texts will be used as mentor texts, shared reading, independent reading, and for small group instruction.
I recently read an article called Informational Text Strategies by Cambium Learning Group (2011) which states, “Informational text is a part of everything we do in our Information Age society.” As adults, we read and use informational texts every day in many different ways. We read the local newspaper, find advice in self-help books, derive answers about everything from home improvement to makeup right from our devices. Unfortunately, students do not have access to many informational sources in their daily lives.
Many students prefer reading informational texts, because it piques their natural curiosity and wonderings. We can engage more students in school and make them life-long learners by providing them with books they enjoy.
I am asking for your help in building a classroom library where students have access to many diverse high-quality informational texts. Please consider becoming a partner with us to mold our future citizens into critical thinkers and global citizens.
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