Use Tech Tools to Unlock Understanding of Complex Text
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Student engagement, learning, comprehension, and critical thinking
How are we working towards those targets?
What are we targeting?
Components of complex text.
Strategies that target text complexity.
The benefits of teaching text complexity.
Components for Teaching
Complex Text
KEY components of teaching complex text.
Teaching Complex Text Components
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Examine Text
Ensure Unit Connection
Read Text Initially
Assess and Collect Evidence
Reread for Different Purposes & Demonstrate Understanding
Disciplinary Literacy
Disciplinary Literacy/Thinking Models
Key Takeaways: Components for Teaching Complex Text
Prepare for teaching text
Incorporate text into unit
Plan to reread for different purposes
Find evidence of learning
Traditional
vs.
NonTraditional
What is Complex Text?
biography
journal
election results
political cartoons
essay
document
map
interview
video
bar graph
Court opinion
short story
speech
census data
editorial
What would you use from this list in your classroom? Traditional vs. NonTraditional
Keying in on Traditional
“Complex Text” - Primary Sources
Multiple Reads / “Four Reads”
DocsTeach
Google Highlight Tool
4 Square Google Doc
“Four Reads” / Multiple Reads
“Fou“Four Reads” / Multiple Reads
r Reads” / Multiple Reads
Primary Sources Online
Highlight Tool - Google Add-On
Highlight Tool - Google Add-On
Google Highlight:
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Google Highlight:
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Google Highlight:
HAPP(y) for APUSHers
Google Highlight:
HAPP(y) for APUSHers
4-Square Google Doc
Change the categories to fit your lesson.
Students can work collaboratively.
Use with any text to teach vocabulary.
In 70 AD Titus surrounded the city of Jerusalem with an army of 70,000 men. Josephus, the historian, claims that 1,100,000 people were killed during the siege, a majority of which were Jewish, and that 97,000 were captured and enslaved:
The slaughter within was even more dreadful than the spectacle from without. Men and women, old and young, insurgents and priests, those who fought and those who entreated mercy, were hewn down in indiscriminate carnage. The number of the slain exceeded that of the slayers. The legionaries had to clamber over heaps of dead to carry on the work of extermination.
4-Square - Example
4-Square
Collective Impressions
Predict-Read-Reflect
Predict-Read-Reflect
Keying in on Non-Traditional
“Complex Text”
Uffizi Gallery - Concept Attainment
Google Arts and Culture Activity
Gallery #1 Date - 1286
Gallery #2 Date - 1470
Gallery #3 Date - 1522
Which group should these images be placed in? Why?
Create a List of Characteristics for Identifying Artwork from each Group
1286 | 1470 | 1522 |
| | |
Characteristics of Late Medieval Art
Characteristics of Renaissance Art
Complex Text - Key Component
Demonstrate Understanding
Compare your list of characteristics to the Characteristics mentioned on the previous slides.
Find your own examples of artwork that would fit the characteristics of each time period.
Compare and contrast a work of art from two different groups.
Other Ideas...
More Ideas for Concept Attainment
Kinds of evidence
Types of government
Music genres
Writing genres
Informal vs. formal writing style
Types of poetry
Graphics
Renewable & nonrenewable resources
Ideas
Sentence structure
Political Cartoons as Complex Text
Questioning Political Cartoons
Interacting and Assessing with Cartoons
ThingLink for Political Cartoons
Key Takeaways:�Types of Complex Text
Consider traditional and nontraditional types
Align text to support subject matter and critical thinking
How are you engaging students with the text?
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