Mining Complex Text, Grades 2-5
Using and Creating Graphic Organizers to Grasp Content and Share New Understandings
- Diane Lapp - San Diego State University, USA
- Thomas DeVere Wolsey
- Karen Wood - University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA
Corwin Literacy
English/Language Arts Common Core | Literacy (Primary/Elementary) | Reading (Primary/Elementary)
“How many times have you heard ‘a picture is worth a thousand words.’ . . . In this text, Lapp, Wolsey, Wood, and Johnson make a vital connection between reading words and the role of graphics. They demonstrate how teachers and students can blend the two such that great learning occurs in every classroom, every day.”
—DOUGLAS FISHER
Coauthor of Rigorous Reading
Imagine you are a fourth grader, reading about our solar system for the first time. Or you’re a high school student, asked to compare survival in Suzanne Collin’s The Hunger Games and Elie Wiesel’s Night. Reading complex texts of any kind is arduous, and now more than ever, students are being asked to do highly advanced thinking, talking, and writing around their reading. If only there were ingenious new power tools that could give students the space to tease apart complex ideas in order to comprehend and to weld their understandings into a new whole.
Good news: such tools exist. In the two volumes, Mining Complex Texts, Grades 2-5 and 6-12, a formidable author team shares fresh ways to use the best digital and print graphic organizers in whole-class, small-group, and independent learning. Big believers of the gradual release method, the authors roll out dozens of examples of dynamic lessons and collaborative work across the content areas so that we see the process of using these visual tools to:
- Help students read, reread, and take notes on a text
- Promote students’ oral sharing of information and their ideas
- Elevate organized note-making from complex text(s)
- Scaffold students’ narrative and informational writing
- Move students to independent thinking as they learn to create their own organizing and note-taking systems
Gone are the days of fill-‘em-in and forget-‘em graphic organizers. With these two volumes, teachers and professional development leaders have a unified vision of how to use these tools to meet the demands of an information-saturated world, one in which students need to be able to sift, sort, synthesize, and apply knowledge with alacrity and skill.
How to Think About Standards Alignment |
How to Help Students Meet the Standards |
Tips for Using Graphic Organizers Dynamically |
How to Meet Eight Intertwined Academic Goals |
What Lies Ahead in This Book |
Picture This: Visuals Quicken and Deepen Text Learning |
General Tips: How to Use Graphic Organizers Well |
Tiered Organizers: Scaffold Student Progress |
Examples of Tiered Graphic Organizers |
Adapting Graphic Organizers for Tiered Learning |
A Sample Tiered Lesson |
At-a-Glance Chart of Graphic Organizers Matched to Academic Goals |
Frayer Organizer |
Concept/Definition Map |
Word Map |
Character Graphic |
Freytag’s Pyramid |
Text Search and Find Board |
4-Square With a Diamond |
Modified KWL |
Tabbed Book Manipulative |
Somebody-Wanted-But-So |
Understanding Text Structures: Five Text Types |
I-Chart and I-Guide |
Flip Chart Manipulative |
Text-Dependent Question/Response Organizer |
Six-Part Opinion Organizer |
Thinking Map |
Project Management Organizer |
HEOA Compliance
Available formats
ISBN: 9781483320359 | Electronic Version | Suggested Retail Price: $24.95 | Bookstore Price: $19.96 |
ISBN: 9781483316291 | Paperback | Suggested Retail Price: $24.95 | Bookstore Price: $19.96 |
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