Technology is always new and always changing. It's important for us to take time to share with each other.
What are digital texts?
- Moving media
- Clips of TV, movies, video
- Any tech that displays these organizing structures:
- Story Line
- Boxes and Bullets
Why digital texts?
Digital texts can support...
- Engagement
- Teaching reading skills and strategies
- Lifting the level of talk
- Note-taking
Possible methods for using digital texts
We can use DT to...
- Connect and engage readers to a teaching point (Use a DT during the connection)
- Ex: Using clip from The Simpsons before a lesson on envisioning or idioms
- Illustrate an example of a reading skill
- Illustrate a metaphor for a reading skill or habit
- Teach content
- Use as a vehicle for learning another way
TP: Sometimes texts are just begging us to stop and predict. When readers come to a pivotal part of our book, we pause and think: "Uh oh, what's going to happen next? Perhaps it could be..."
Stop at 1:20 : What is going to happen next?
TP: What someone does and how he/she acts can be windows into that person. Readers pay close attention to a character's actions and think: "This character is the kind of person who..."
While watching, stop and jot what things this character is doing. What does this say?
(Stop several times throughout for partners to share evidence and theories)
TP: Sometimes readers think thematically. We can do this as we read by paying attention to a character's problems and asking ourselves, "What is this character learning about life?"
Show of the few clips. What evidence do you see and what does it make you think?
TP: Nonfiction readers don't just find main ideas in a text. We grow our own ideas while we read. To do this, we can pause when we learn something big and important and say, "This makes me think..." or "This is important because..."
Show the first 1:42 What are you thinking right now?
TP: When we read nonfiction texts, we become an expert on a topic. Nonfiction experts teach other what we know, using our hands, fancy words, and explaining voice.
After watching this clip, turn and teach your partner what you've learned.
Important Reading Skills to Teach Into
Literature
- Grow ideas about characters
- Supporting thinking with text evidence
- Interpreting themes
Informational Text
- Determining central idea and supporting details
- Analyzing the relationship between authorial intent and craft
- Supporting thinking with text evidence
Where can we incorporate Digital Texts and Literacies?
In reading workshop:
- In the Connection to engage readers
- In the Teaching to demonstrate a strategy
- In the Active Engagement to practice the strategy together
- Other areas:
- Midworkshop Teaching
- Teaching Share
- Conferences
- Small Strategy Groups
In Interactive Read Aloud:
- A digital text can be the read aloud
- Pause for teacher think alouds
- Pause for student turn & talks and stop & jots
In Content Areas:
- To teach content
- To teach note-taking:
- sketches
- timelines, etc.
Where can I find Digital Texts?
- Discovery Education Streaming Plus
- youtube
- The History Channel
- National Geographic
- Teachers College Reading and Writing Project
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