When K-5 students understand how to read text features like diagrams,
bullets, insets, and tables, they are reading the whole page--essential
for deep comprehension of nonfiction and fiction text. In this revised
edition of 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 Teaching Text Features to Support Comprehension help
you: teach relevant Common Core State 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 that can be downloaded that illustrates all the text features; and
monitor and guide differentiated instruction with a convenient class
profile. 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 90-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 downloadable materials provided online
include 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.
