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Re: [Understand] text structures

Palmer, Jennifer
Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:12:09 -0800

Understand... I think it was under a title called "A Wow momment" or something 
similar
 
 
Jennifer Palmer
Reading Specialist, National Board Certified Teacher, FLES
January is Maryland Reading Month!
"Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made 
disagreeable!"
-Augustine Birrell
 

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From: understand-boun...@literacyworkshop.org on behalf of Tamara Westmoreland
Sent: Mon 1/19/2009 6:22 PM
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Subject: Re: [Understand] text structures



Jennifer,
Was this in the Mosaic llistserve or the Understand listserve?
Thanks,
Tami
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Subject: Re: [Understand] text structures

Remember Peter's idea last year about teaching text structure using a dresser? 
(Each drawer contains certain kinds of information? It is in the archives about 
April of 08 if you need it.) This was the inspiration...


Jennifer Palmer
Reading Specialist, National Board Certified Teacher, FLES
January is Maryland Reading Month!
"Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made 
disagreeable!"
-Augustine Birrell


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From: understand-boun...@literacyworkshop.org on behalf of Beverlee Paul
Sent: Mon 1/19/2009 5:01 PM
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Subject: Re: [Understand] text structures




Ooooh, I really love this one!!

Lots of kids who are used to a single "climax" of a story, and have drawn a 
schematic of that, also love it when the story gets too complex to do that and 
there are multiple peaks and valleys.  Do you lucky SmartBoard folk have 
anything special to plot a storyline?> From: cnjpal...@aol.com> Date: Mon, 19 
Jan 2009 16:38:10 -0500> To: understand@literacyworkshop.org> Subject: 
[Understand] text structures> > I know Ellin believes it is important for 
students to understand how texts > are organized. A colleague and I are 
planning to use the analogy of a set of > stairs to help second graders 
understand the chronological text structure of > some simple biographies our 
students will be reading. We thought stairs show > that the order of ideas 
matters when making sense of this kind of text... and > how the ideas 
build...you see how the events in someone's life influence later > events and 
while you can "jump the steps" to look at just a certain time > period in 
someone's life, you need to read from beginning to end to get the full > 
picture of the significance of someone's life. Does that make sense?> > What do 
you all do to teach text structures with your students?> Jennifer> 
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