It should help them become the responsive, rigorous, independent readers we not only want students to be but know our democracy demands.Ī new Notice and Note Literature Log offers students practice finding the signposts-with over-the-shoulder coaching from Kylene and Bob. Notice and Note will help create attentive readers who look closely at a text, interpret it responsibly, and reflect on what it means in their lives. offer 6 Notice and Note model lessons, including text selections and teaching tools, that help you introduce each signpost to your students.provide 6 text-dependent anchor questions that help readers take note and read more closely.identify 6 signposts that help readers understand and respond to character development, conflict, point of view, and theme.examine the new emphasis on text-dependent questions, rigor, text complexity, and what it means to be literate in the 21st century.I've already shared the bookmarks, and am thinking of ways to incorporate these signposts into our Reading Logs next semester. LOVED the handouts in the appendix, and online.
They make no claim that the signposts could be used as is.but smart teachers (and they KNOW teachers are smart) could easily adapt. My one concern, and they address it too, is how these questions could be used in other content areas besides the ELA class.some of the questions could easily translate into the history and social studies classes.also narratives in science and math.but I wonder about expository texts. The respect Beers and Probst have for teachers and students made my heart swell.not a lot of that around right now. The journey TO the answer is as important and meaningful as the answer. Man, this is a breath of fresh air.their attitude about teaching and learning is that they, too, are transactions.that sometimes a learner's answer might not be the teacher's, but every answer is to be honored and respected. They include great dialogues of kids, and they include the tough questions teachers like me, suspicious of every 'new answer' will ask.
#CLOSE READING SIGNPOSTS HOW TO#
The authors show model lessons for each signpost, showing how to gradually give responsibility to the students. For each of the six signposts, there is one anchor question that teachers can model for students.The signposts are so beautifully simple: 1.Contrasts and Contradictions ("Why would the character act that way?") 2.Aha Moments ("How might this change things>") 3.Tough Questions ("What does this question make me wonder about?") 4.Words of the Wiser ("What's the life lesson and how might it affect the character?") 5.Again and Again ("Why might the author bring this up again and again?") and 6.Memory Moment ("Why might this memory be important?"). NOTICE AND NOTE gives the power of reading back to the students, with some great 'signposts' to look for. Students scramble to figure out what the teacher thinks.
New Criticism in a nutshell.teacher holds the knowledge and the right answers. I remember when I finally caught on in college, that, to quote David Coleman, my professors didn't "give a sh*t about what I thought," and they only wanted me to tell them what THEY thought. They share my suspicions about the motives of the authors of CCSS, and they feel confident about their own practice and professionalism to make the case, again, for transactional reading.reading that insists the reader create meaning, not just regurgitate the meaning the teacher has found. I saw Beers and Probst talk about this book a couple of years ago, and was excited to see I could buy it. Sometimes books find you when you need them the most.
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