APLM Jan Critical Reading

Sample Lesson

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Implementing the Critical Reading Process

Essential Question: How do people quickly consume large amounts of food?

Activate

Practice the academic task of ANALYZATION.(yellow button)

Article (yellow link button)

Engage

Building Vocabulary(dark blue button)Vocabulary Awareness Chart(light blue button)Interacting with Text (pencil button)

How Hot Dog Contestants went from Eating 10 to 76 Hot Dogs in 10 minutes

Extend

Further practice of the academic task of ANALYZATION

Critical Reading News

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Implementing the Critical Reading Process

The Critical Reading Process

AVID's Critical Reading Process has three phases. Some phases contain multiple components. Important to note is that vocabulary building happens throughout the entire critical reading process and does not have to be tied to one particular phase. When teaching the critical reading process, educators should use the reading purpose to guide the process and help in the selection of strategies at each phase. It is also crucial that educators model strategies for students throughout the entire critical reading process and follow the gradual release of responsibility model until students can confidently use the critical reading process independently.

Analyze, Interpret, and Evaluate Text

Not Just for ELA

Richard Vaca, author of Content Area Reading: Literacy and Learning Across the Curriculum, says, “Adolescents entering the adult world in the 21st century will read and write more than at any other time in human history. They will need advanced levels of literacy to perform their jobs, run their households, act as citizens, and conduct their personal lives.”

https://www.edutopia.org/blog/literacy-instruction-across-curriculum-importance

https://avidopenaccess.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/The-Three-Phases-of-the-Critical-Reading-Process.pdf

Making Connections

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Implementing the Critical Reading Process

Phase 1: Activate

The chosen Activate strategies should be a balance of content specific and academic thinking skills.

Planning for Reading: Establish Purpose & Expectations

• What is the purpose for reading?
• How will the information be used?
• What content & Skills need to be developed?

The Activate phase is broken into 3 components: planning for reading, selecting the text, pre-reading.

Pre-Reading

• Outside the Text - connecting prior knowledge
• Inside the text - identify strategies to be used

Selecting the Text

• Select appropriate text
• Which of these 6 components of an ideal text does this meet?

https://www.learningbyinquiry.com/simple-strategies-to-activate-students-prior-knowledge/

Engaging the Reader

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Which instructional strategies will be used to teach vocabulary?

Phase 2: Engage with the Text

First Read Reading to get the gist of the passage Second Read--Get organized! Number paragraphs Mark the text Purposeful Rereads How should the reader interact with the text to process information as it is read?

Academic vocabulary includes words used in academic dialogue and texts. Academic vocabulary words help students understand oral directions and classroom instructions as well as comprehend text across different subject areas.

Content area vocabulary are words that are specific to a given domain or subject area. Content area vocabulary helps students comprehend classroom instruction related to content and readings from the content area textbook.

“Preparing students to practice authentic literacy in college, careers, and their community.”

Extending the Learning

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Phase 3: Extend beyond the Text

The Extending Beyond the Text strategies are grouped by the following academic thinking skills: * Apply— Students utilize the content from their learning. * Analyze— Students carefully examine the content from their learning.* Evaluate— Students assess the content from their learning.* Synthesize— Students create new content from the content of their learning.

Extending Beyond the Text helps students practice and deepen their knowledge.

INCREASING THE RIGOR

Extending beyond the text allows students to make connections to self, the world, and other texts.

Lessons in Critical Reading

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January 2024

Implementing the Critical Reading Process

Essential Question: How do people quickly consume large amounts of food?

Activate

Practice the academic task of ANALYZATION.(yellow button)

Article (yellow link button)

Engage

Building Vocabulary(dark blue button)Vocabulary Awareness Chart(light blue button)Interacting with Text (pencil button)

How Hot Dog Contestants went from Eating 10 to 76 Hot Dogs in 10 minutes

Extend

Further practice of the academic task of ANALYZATION

Interpreting and analyzing Graphic/nonlinguistic representations

Consider the essential question. Click on the graphic to the left and consider the following questions about the nonliguistic representation

• What do you see?
• What do you think when you see this?
• What wonderings do you have from this nonlinguistic representation?
• How would you describe what you see to others?
• What is happening? How do you know?
• How does this connect to your own experiences?

Strategies for Activating

MathOpening Tasks Think-Pair-Share Turn and Talk

Social Studies Roundtable Questionnaire Gallery Walks

Language ArtsVisuals Vocabulary Anticipation Guide

The ArtsArt Web See Think Wonder Chalk Talk

More...Philosophical Chairs Quickwrites Journals Carousel Brainstorming

SciencePhoto Sorts Frontloading KWL

Interpreting and Analyzing Graphic/nonlinguistic Representations

Consider the Essential Question: How do people quickly consume large amounts of food?

Click on the graphic to the left. Consider the following questions about the nonliguistic representation:

• What do you see?
• What do you think when you see this?
• What wonderings do you have from this nonlinguistic representation?
• How would you describe what you see to others?
• What is happening? How do you know?
• How does this connect to your own experiences?