Curriculum:
Theresa Glisson Learning-Focused Toolbox Date: September 13, 2011 ET
Theresa K. Glisson
Teacher / Team Name:
Topic: The Active Reader
Subject(s): English Language Arts
Days: 8
Grade(s): 7th
Key Learning: ~ Understanding (meaning, comprehension) is at the heart of true reading.
~ Active reading engages the reader's mind with an internal conversation.
~ Good readers recognize when their understanding is hindered.
~ Good readers employ strategies to increase (or fix-up) their understanding.
Unit Essential Question(s):
How do the reading strategies of
connecting, predicting, visualizing, summarizing,
questioning, and clarifying improve your understanding
when reading?
Concept:
Concept:
Concept:
Prediction
Questioning
The student will be able to make text-to-self, text-totext, and text-to-world connections when they read.
The student will be able to make reasonable
predictions before, during and after reading text.
The student will be able to pose questions that are
raised from the text as part of self-monitoring their
comprehension. Lesson Essential Question(s):
What is the difference among text-to-self,
text-to-text, and text-to-world connections? (A)
Lesson Essential Question(s):
How do readers use predictions to
comprehend text before, during, and after
reading? (A)
Lesson Essential Question(s):
Why is questioning an effective selfmonitoring reading strategy? (A)
Vocabulary:
text, connecting, text-to-self, text-to-text,
text-to-world
Vocabulary:
predicting, reasonable
Vocabulary:
questioning, self-monitoring
Concept:
Concept:
Concept:
Visualization
Clarification
Summarization
The student will be able to describe the pictures in
their mind based on text-based support and
inferences.
The student will be able to break difficult text down
into more meaningful chunks.
The student will be able to identify and organize key
points in text. Lesson Essential Question(s):
How does visualizing take reading from
an inactive to active process? (In other
words, how does it make the
invisible~~visible?) (A)
Lesson Essential Question(s):
Lesson Essential Question(s):
How are the strategies of questioning and
How does a reader effectively summarize
clarification different? How are they similar? text? (A)
(A)
Vocabulary:
visualizing, mind movie
Vocabulary:
clarifying, chunking
Connection
Vocabulary:
summarizing, key points
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Curriculum:
Theresa Glisson Teacher / Team Name:
Learning-Focused Toolbox Date: September 13, 2011 ET
Theresa K. Glisson
Topic: The Active Reader
Subject(s): English Language Arts
Days: 8
Grade(s): 7th
Additional Information:
Modified Frayer Model-type Graphic Organizer
Attached Document(s):
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Curriculum:
Theresa Glisson
Teacher / Team Name:
Learning-Focused Toolbox
Date: September 13, 2011 ET
Theresa K. Glisson
Vocab Report for Topic: The
Subject(s): English Language Arts
Active Reader
Days: 8
Grade(s): 7th
Concept: Connection
text - anything used as reading source
connecting - the reader's ability to personally relate (link)to the text through his own experiences
text-to-self - relating (linking) the text to one's own personal experiences, or to those experiences of
another whom he knows personally
text-to-text - relating (linking) the text being read to a previously read text
text-to-world - relating (linking) the read text to a generized idea, or to a population within the world
Concept: Prediction
predicting - the reader's ability to make reasonable guesses about the expectations of what will
happen next in text
reasonable - that which is sound and justified through text-based evidence
Concept: Questioning
questioning - the reader's ability to pose questions that are currently unanswered in the text; these
questions way or may not ever get answered
self-monitoring - the reader's ability to continually check his own understanding while he reads text
Concept: Visualization
visualizing - The reader's ability to make relevant and accurate pictures in his mind as he reads
mind movie - the reader's ability to "see" what he is reading as if it were a movie in his mind
Concept: Summarization
summarizing - the reader's ability to identify and organize key points from text in order to restate
them in a verbal, written, or performance-based task
key points - the elements of text that are essential to the understanding of that text; the most
important elements
Concept: Clarification
clarifying - The reader's ability to chunk words and phrases in order to make it easier to understand
chunking - breaking words (or word parts) down into simplier terms (basic phonemes/ morphemes)
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