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Schedule_Text Centered_Discussions

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Essential Question:  

How can text-centered discussions help prepare students for college and careers?

  • What Common Core skills do text-centered discussions foster?
  • How can I create a classroom culture that cultivates text-centered discussions?
  • How do I manage and assess discussions? 
  • Where do I find complex texts for students to  read?  

 


Introduction 

Poll

Common Core Shifts 

Day One Morning 

Creating a Classroom Culture to Promote Text-Centered Discussions

  • Fostering Close Reading

http://corkboard.me/fAobANv0ER

 

Reading Strategies Bookmark

Critical Reading Techniques (for nonfiction or "literary nonfiction")

thereadingprocess_domiano.pdf  (for nonfiction)

 

GradualRelease_InstructionalModel.ppsx

Comment on Blog Post to Publish Sentence

 

Mini-Lesson:

Questioning a Text (1).pdf

QuestioningLayers.ppsx

"Does Facebook Turn People Into Narcissists?"

http://www.todaysmeet.com/texttalk

 

NotesOrganizer_SocraticSeminar.pdf

Close Reading Exemplars from AchievetheCore.org

  LUNCH: 1.25 Hours

After Lunch Video [7:00]

Strategies for Student-Centered Discussions

Day One

Afternoon

Creating a Classroom Culture to Promote Text-Centered Discussions

  • Cultivate Social Skills and Discussion Skills

Lit Circle Positive Behaviors 

Accountable Talk Sourcebook (65-page download from Institute for Learning)

 

Team Project:

 

Engaging the Adolescent Learner

Connectors

 

Inclassdiscussion_assessmentchecklist.pdf

Socratic Seminar_Checklist2.pdf

Socratic Seminar_StudentObservationChecklist.pdf

DiscussionSkills_SelfAssessmentReflection.pdf

 

"Learning to explore questions, embrace multiple perspectives, and support ideas with evidence are skills important to creating classroom dialogue and in having students think dialogue is

productive and purposeful" (Copeland, Socratic Circles).

 

 

 

   
 

Day Two

Morning

Reflect on Yesterday's Learning

http://todaysmeet.com/metacognition


Participate in a Text-Centered Discussion

 

Scheduling, Selecting Texts, & Assessing Discussions, Designing Mini-Lessons

BHS_SocraticSeminarRubric.pdf

SocraticSemianr_AnecdotalNotes.pdf

 

Resources Page


LUNCH: 1.25 Hours

 

Day Two

Afternoon


Socratic Seminars

 

Text-Dependent Questions

 


Session Evaluation & Wrap-Up

 

 

 

 

 

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