Using Reading Nonfiction Notice & Note Stances, Signposts, and Strategies by Bob Probst and Kylene Beers as my guide, I crafted materials and activities to introduce these concepts and to give students opportunities to practice the strategies with partners and independently with shorter texts.Īfter introducing the Three Big Questions and sentence starters to help students articulate their thinking, my students and I read “Meet Your Competition”, an article about the impact of automation and robots on various career fields ( shout out to GALILEO for providing us access to this wonderful Junior Scholastic article).Īfter our read-aloud and discussion about the article, students could work with a partner or alone to come up with three statements for each big question. I began our unit this week by introducing Probst and Beers’ Three Big Questions and the Signposts Strategies for Nonfiction. Both units give me an opportunity to integrate a range of reading, writing, and research strategies from Smokey Daniels and Nancy Steineke, Bob Probst and Kylene Beers, Stephanie Harvey, Cris Tovani, Gretchen Bernabei, Kelly Gallagher, Lucy Calkins, and Jane Schaffer. I am so excited that our pacing guide pairs informational text with informational writing and then allows a second round of study in Quarter 3 to build student stamina with informational text and argumentative writing (we’ll be engaging in nonfiction book clubs! come January!).
This past week we began our study of informational text and writing for Quarter 2.
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