In case anyone is wondering if I made it out to a
game, I did. It was a wonderful day for baseball and Wrigley Field did not
disappoint. I would have taken a picture of my hotdog, but it was so delicious,
it was eaten before I had a chance to think about it! Here are some pictures I
did remember to take:
The Cubbies won! Apparently, it was a surprise to
even their fans! Hence, a great night for Chicago Cub fans everywhere.
Today’s presentation at the TURN Conference will be
on Depth of Knowledge and Comprehension Skills.
Click HERE to Access the Slides for
Today
The links below are great resources of Blooms Taxonomy and Webb’s Depth
of Knowledge.
2. Hess’ Cognitive Rigor Matrix & Curricular Examples | Revised
Bloom’s Taxonomy
7. Common Core State Standards: Rigor | Bloom's
Taxonomy and Norman Webb's depth of knowledge
8. Cognitive Rigor: Blending the Strengths of Bloom's Taxonomy
and Webb's Depth of Knowledge to Enhance Classroom-level Processes http://standardsco.com
Common
Core Critical Thinking Reading Passages - College and Career Readiness
Critical thinking reading
passages are the foundation of Socratic seminars and quality close reading.
Selecting reading passages that inspire curiosity, critical thinking and can be
used for either close reading or Socratic seminars takes pre-planning and a bit
of text analysis. One of the best methods for selecting Critical Thinking
Reading Passages is using a Syntopical examination of how many great ideas the
passages contain. Dr. Mortimer J. Adler created a list of 103 philosophical
topics that can be used to analyze text for the quality of ideas presented.
Text selection is key to quality close reading and immersive Socratic
seminars
1. Socratic
Seminar - My favorite Rubric and Guide
The purpose of a Socratic Seminar is to achieve a deeper understanding
about the ideas and values in a text. In the Seminar, participants
systematically question and examine issues and principles related to a
particular content, and articulate different points-of-view. The group
conversation assists participants in constructing meaning through disciplined
analysis, interpretation, listening, and participation
2. Socratic Seminar: Participant Rubric- Students Participant
Rubric (Peer-Evaluation and Self Evaluation)
3. Socratic Seminar Rubric - Basic Participant
Rubric
Dr. Mortimer J. Adler Co-Founder and Chairman Center For
the Study of the Great Ideas
The list of 103 ideas is broken between the two volumes, as follows:
Citizen, Constitution, Courage, Custom and Convention, Definition, Democracy, Desire, Dialectic, Duty, Education, Element,
Volume II: Man, Mathematics, Matter, Mechanics, Medicine, Memory and Imagination,
Metaphysics, Mind, Monarchy, Nature, Necessity and Contingency, Oligarchy,
One and Many, Opinion, Opposition,[13] Philosophy, Physics, Pleasure and Pain,
ONE PAGE
CRITICAL THINKING PASSAGES ALIGNED TO the COMMON CORE from:
Depaul
University:
ReadWorks -K-8 Reading Passages
How to
find Lexile® Scores
One website that helps determine the Grade Level Equivalency (GLE) of a
passage is called STORYtoolz. You simply copy and paste your text
into the box, and it averages several different GLE programs to provide an
overall GLE score.
The other website provides information about the percentage of words in
a passage that are high frequency words. This vocabulary
profiler website looks daunting, but it's really quite easy to
use. You simply copy and paste your text into the box and click the submit
window. You will then be shown the percentage of words in the text that fall
within the 1,000 most high frequency words and the 2,000 most high frequency
words.
Use these websites to check readability levels of passages your ESOL
students read to ensure that you're providing students with readings that are
level appropriate. As a rule of thumb, ESOL students should know 90% to 95% of
the words in a passage to be level-appropriate.
Helps you read more, understand difficult English faster, and learn
words in new ways.
Another resource that I discovered recently is the Readability Calculator
at Online-Utility.org. The tool allows you to either enter a URL or
directly copy and paste text into a text box. Their algorithm is more or less
spelled out in the analysis, and the results are estimated for several
different metrics including the Flesh-Kincaid. This is a must bookmark for any
teacher.
Another web-based resource available to determine a Lexile® score. A Lexile® score takes into
account the frequency of the vocabulary used within the text, as well as
sentence length. This is an alternative to a Grade Level Equivalency measure.
The Lexile® Analyzer is a tool developed
by MetaMetrics that you can use to determine a
Lexile® score for text that you write or select to ensure that the text is at
an appropriate reading level for your students. After submitting your text on
the Lexile® Analyzer, the tool will generate a Lexile® measure. To do
this, you first have to register on the Lexile® website with your email address and
password. Then you prepare your text by saving your text as a plain text file
(using a ".txt" extension). Then you upload the file, and the
analyzer tool will generate the Lexile® score.
Literacy Leveler – Quickly Determine a Book’s Reading Level
Literacy Leveler
is a an iOS app (iPhone and iPad versions available) that allows you scan a book’s
ISBN barcode and discover the reading level of the content of that book.
Literacy Leveler supports Lexile®, DRA (Developmental Reading Assessment®), and
Guided Reading leveling systems. If you don’t have a book’s ISBN barcode
available, you can search for books by title or author. After discovering the
reading level of a book’s content you can add it to a library in Literacy
Leveler. Literacy Leveler’s database is focused on books that are appropriate
for elementary school and middle school students.
Video
clip I showed during this session:
Organize Your Thinking to Critically Analyze Text
Grade 5 / Social Studies / Reading CCSS: ELA.RI.5.2
ELA.SL.5.1
