When K-5 students understand how to read text features like bullets,
insets, and bold print, they are reading the whole page--essential for
deep comprehension of non-fiction and fiction text. In Reading the Whole
Page: Teaching and Assessing Text Features to Meet K-5 Common Core
Standards, seasoned educators Michelle Kelley and Nicki Clausen-Grace
show you how to explicitly teach K-5 students to read text features, use
them to navigate text, and include them in their own writing. The
classroom-proven mini-lessons, activities, and assessment tools in
Reading the Whole Page help you: Teach relevant Common Core Reading
Standards and grade-level expectations; Diagnose, monitor, and meet
student needs with one of two level-appropriate assessments; Evaluate
knowledge with a unique picture book on CD that illustrates all the text
features; and Monitor and guide differentiated instruction with a
convenient class profile. &&/UL&&Sixty mini-lessons for teaching print,
graphic, and organizational features provide ample choices for meeting
the standards while adapting to students' needs. Flexible lessons, which
follow the gradual release of responsibility model and increase in
difficulty, can be used within the typical ninety-minute reading block,
during content-area instruction, in small groups, and as part of
independent practice opportunities like literacy centers. Each lesson
offers concept review, suggestions for differentiation, assessment
options, and technology connections, requiring students to find,
explore, manipulate, and create text features in their own writing. Even
more activities--from text feature walks to scavenger hunts--help
students integrate text feature knowledge as they read. The included CD
provides important resources and convenient lesson supports, such as
interactive thinksheets that can be filled out directly on the computer,
visual examples of each text feature, rubrics, the assessment picture
book, and readers' theatre scripts.
