English 9 H English 9 Reading ContentArea Texts

English 9 & H English 9 Reading Content-Area Texts

READING IS a process in which readers comprehend and construct meaning.

TEXT BOOKS • These are content-area books such as your Earth Science or Biology book, your World History book, or Government book, even a Spanish text book fits this category.

FIVE STAGES OF READING In section 3 of your binder - Reading Section - take these notes. You will have a quiz on Friday over this material. Remember the five stages, their purposes, and activities. 1. PRE-READING 2. READING 3. RESPONDING 4. EXPLORING 5. APPLYING

Each stage has a purpose Purpose means a reason for which something is done. You will need to know the purpose of each stage for your quiz on Friday.

1. PRE-READING PURPOSE: To activate the student’s background knowledge of the subject that they are reading.

2. READING PURPOSE: To focus on the main ideas and details of the text and organize what you are reading.

3. RESPONDING PURPOSE: To react to the chapter, ask questions to clarify confusions, and make connections to your own life.

4. EXPLORING PURPOSE: To focus on vocabulary, examine the text, and analyze the main ideas.

APPLYING PURPOSE: To show mastery of the information by teaching to another person or demonstrating your knowledge in a project or test.

The Assignment • By the end of the week, you will be able to complete all the reading stages for Chapter 4. 1 (Honors 4. 1 and 4. 2) of your Earth Science book. • You will hand in a copy of all the activities you completed for all the stages of reading. In other words, you are SHOWING how you read a text book. • Assignment is worth 100 pts. or 25 pts. per stage. • Due at the end of class on Thursday, Sept. 30

ACTIVITIES • Each of the five reading stages have specific activities to help SHOW that you are connecting to the text, comprehending information, and engaged in your reading process. • For your test, you will need to know the activities for each stage.

1. Pre-Reading Activity - before reading • Scanning the text for what the chapter will be about- the KEY CONCEPT. To scan, look at titles, subtitles, pictures, maps, charts, bold-face words. Write down what you think the chapter will be about. Use a complete sentence such as - From scanning the text, I think this chapter will be about. . . • Write about where and when you have heard about this key concept before. • Now write three statements of fact about this subject. • Finally, develop three to six questions you have about this subject.

2. Reading Activities • First - read the entire section. • Second - outline the section (Writers Inc. pg. 394) Keep a class notes column on the right side. • Third - Make a list of 10 vocabulary words with definitions. • Fourth - Draw a graphic organizer of the information. (Writers Inc. pg. 48 -49)

3. Responding Activities • Go back to the questions from the pre-reading stage. Answer those questions. • Then write about how your own life is influenced by the information you learned in this reading. • Finally, ask three new questions beyond the text.

4. Exploring Activities • Sorting vocabulary words - put the words from you vocabulary list into categories - for instance, by type of rocks or ways of mining rocks or rocks found in MT. • Draw a data chart - See example on assignment handout. You can change the headings to fit your needs.

CONGRATULATIONS! • The applying stage is your quiz or test over this chapter. • Also, Mr. Day will be giving a test as well. Show him that you were able to understand this chapter’s material because you used the reading stages. • GOOD JOB!