empowering literacy for students and liking it the naf learning handbook
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Empowering Literacy for Students and Liking It: The NAF Learning Handbook
Andrew Rothstein, Ph.D.
Special Advisor, Educational Policy
NAF
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What Are Literacy Skills That YourStudents Struggle With the Most?
NAF Learning Handbook Strategy
List-Group-Label
Purpose: Brainstorming andCategorizing
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Free Literacy Resource: The NAF Learning Handbook
Research based and proven literacy strategies:
o Reading comprehension
o Vocabulary
o Writing Skills
o Note-Taking
o Active Listening
o Presenting
Finding The NAF Learning Handbook
5 Critical Experiences to Teaching Literacy
Responding to a variety of texts.
Composing in oral and written form.
Studying and mastering language patterns.
Sustained reading of a variety of self-selected books.
Learning how to learn.
Defining Format: Question, Category, Characteristics
Defining terms clarifies understanding.
Using the Defining Format makes it easier to
recall definitions coming from the dictionary.
Gets students out of the “thing” habit.
Prepares students to write what they know.
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Deep Understanding of Key Terms
NAF Handbook Strategy: The Defining Format
Question Category Characteristics
What is a ____?
A ________ is a(n) that 1)
2)
3)
Define a Key Term in Your Theme: Internet, money, motel, medicine, architecture
Write to a Martian
The Reading Comprehension Teaching Cycle
During reading
•Confirm/redefine
predictions
•Clarify ideas
•Construct meaning for
each segment of text
After reading
•Construct meaning
for a whole passage
•Assess achievement
of purpose
•Consolidate/apply learning
Before reading
•Preview Text
•Activate/access
knowledge
•Focus interest
&set purpose
How to Teach Summarizing
NAF Learning HandbookStrategy
Anticipation GuidesKey Word Notes
Metacognitive Statements
Anticipation Guide
Murfles, a long defunct word for freckles or pimples.
I don’t like it when people groak, but I have done it myself.
An ecdysiast is not one of the careers that NAF themes
encourages.
People used to sleep in their closets.
Teaching is a prestigious profession.
Shakespeare was so good at writing, he even made reeking
smell good.
How to Organize Words for Instruction
The Story of
Words
Categorizing
Taxonomies
List-Group-Label
Defining
Defining Format
History of Words
Etymology
Expanding Word
Meaning
Morphology
Word Play
Key Word Notes
Skills Addressed
o Reading with attention to meaning, not just “word calling”.
o Purposeful reading (rereading) of text (to tell partner what you learned.
o Self-monitoring of comprehension (“What do I really understand?”)
o Recalling what was read while not looking at text.
o Distinguishing more important from less important words and concepts.
o Writing information in own words rather than copying from text.
Key Word Notes: Prerequisites
Understanding that reading is more than pronouncing words.
Experience with thinking about the meaning while reading.
Willingness to talk to and listen to a partner.
Ability to express what one learned from a text orally and in writing.
Key Word Notes: Steps
Students work in pairs; each individual gets Key Word Notes form.
Everyone reads designated piece of text individually, silently.
Each student selects 3-4 words as memory aids, writes in Box 1.
Partners tell each other what words they selected and why.
Student repeat steps 2-4, completing all segments, using boxes
2,3,4.
Books closed, each student uses his/her Key Words to write a
summary in Box 5
Metacognitive Statements
As a result of this session, I will do the following
three things:
• First,
• And,
• Finally,