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LEVERAGING COMMONLIT’S DIGITAL TOOLS TO CREATE A CLOSE READING LESSON
WHO WE ARE
Who we are
Rob Fleisher
● Director of School
Partnerships at
CommonLit
● Veteran middle & high
school Inclusion
Literacy teacher in
Washington D.C.
WHO WE ARE
Who we are
Matt Stephens
● Senior Curriculum Editor
at CommonLit
● Middle School Literacy
teacher for 12 years in
Los Angeles, CA and
Washington, DC.
WHO WE ARE
Who we are
•CommonLit is a nonprofit organization that is
committed to raising student achievement in reading
and writing.
•CommonLit’s lessons will always be free
to teachers across America.
•Today’s sessions are based on best practices
that are supported by research.
NEW FEATURES
Who we are
Google Classroom Integration
NEW FEATURES
Who we are
DIRECTIONS
Directions
Welcome to our professional development
on CommonLit!
Directions:
● Sit next to a thought partner
● Create a CommonLit.org account
Introduction to CommonLit
● Open the poem “The New Colossus”
● Open the template at:
Presented by
http://bit.ly/NewOrleansPD
Matt Stephens, Senior Curriculum Writer
● Place your computer at “half mast”
Koye Oyedeji, Senior Curriculum Writer
NORMS
Directions
● Turn & Talks
● Elbow Partners
● Countdown
● Respecting the space
Introduction to CommonLit
Presented by
Matt Stephens, Senior Curriculum Writer
Koye Oyedeji, Senior Curriculum Writer
OBJECTIVES
Objective
1. Understand how the lesson planning tools on
CommonLit can support diverse learners.
2. Plan a close reading lesson for a Guidebooks text using
CommonLit’s resources.
PROBING ANALYSIS
Probing analysis
•If you were teaching “The New Colossus,” what makes
this poem especially difficult for students to
understand?
•What are some strategies you’ve used to help students
break down a poem?
1. PAIR-SHARE
2. SHARE-OUTPROBING ANALYSIS
Probing Analysis
Challenges:
“Complex vocabulary”
“Challenging structure”
“Dense ideas”
“Requires a lot of background info.”
Teaching strategies:
-Front load vocabulary
-Build background info with other texts
or videos
-Multiple “reads”
-Analyze literary devicesTHE RESEARCH SAYS...
•
•“If success in college demands of
students the ability to read successfully
above their comfort zone, then the
importance of teaching students how to
struggle with challenging text is another
good argument both for reading more
challenging texts and for ‘Close
Reading.”
– Doug Lemov, Reading Reconsidered
(pg 7)COMMONLIT SUPPORTS DIVERSE LEARNERS
“The content of small-group instruction
should be connected to the guidebook unit
being taught during whole-class instruction,
and it sometimes may include support for
skills below the grade level to fill in gaps so
students meet the grade-level standards.”
--Diverse Learners GuideUSING COMMONLIT TO LESSON PLAN
GROUP ACTIVITY
Group Activity
We are going to use the poem, “The New Colossus”
by Emma Lazarus to plan a poetry close reading
lesson.COMMONLIT CLOSE READING LESSON PLAN
Supports for “Mother to Son”
Lesson Sequence
■ Pre-reading
■ Background Reading
■ Vocabulary
■ First Read
■ Send Read
■ Close Read
■ AssessmentCOMMONLIT CLOSE READING TEMPLATE
Supports for “Mother to Son”
Access the template at http://bit.ly/NewOrleansPDVOCABULARY Supports for “Mother to Son” We’ve done Pre-reading and vocabulary already. We want you to experience them as students.
PRE-READING Supports for “Mother to Son” We’ve done Pre-reading and vocabulary already. We want you to experience them as students.
BACKGROUND READING
Supports for “Mother to Son”
NOTE: this will reference a NF article about immigration that
will post to the site before May 30.FIRST READ Supports for “Mother to Son” Turn and Talk: Answer the questions from the template with your elbow partner.
FIRST READ Supports for “Mother to Son” Turn and Talk: Answer the questions from the template with your elbow partner.
FIRST READ Supports for “Mother to Son” Turn and Talk: Answer the questions from the template with your elbow partner.
SECOND READ Supports for “Mother to Son” Students will answer the Guided Reading Mode questions on CommonLit.
SECOND READ Supports for “Mother to Son” Students will answer the Guided Reading Mode questions on CommonLit.
SECOND READ Supports for “Mother to Son”
What topics or Big Ideas is this poem mostly about?
Topic List
● Freedom
● America
● Hard work
● Immigrants
● Sacrifice
● Peace
● Suffering
● American Dream
● FriendshipTHIRD READ Supports for “Mother to Son” Turn and Talk: Answer the questions from the template with your elbow partner.
THIRD READ Supports for “Mother to Son” Turn and Talk: Answer the questions from the template with your elbow partner.
THIRD READ Supports for “Mother to Son” Turn and Talk: Answer the questions from the template with your elbow partner.
THIRD READ Supports for “Mother to Son”
This reveals that she’s humble.
This reveals that she’s humble. This reveals that she’s peaceful.
This reveals that she’s humble.
This reveals that she’s peaceful.
Identify and analyze
three more places
where the Statue is
characterized.This reveals that she’s humble.
This reveals that she’s peaceful.
She is powerful
She cares for the downtrodden.
She’s welcoming to everyone.
She wants to help the people in the
worst situations.Possible themes: America is a powerful nation that welcomes immigrants from all over the world. America is so powerful it can help immigrants from the worst situations.
ASSESSMENT Supports for “Mother to Son”
DISCUSSION Supports for “Mother to Son” Turn and Talk: Answer the questions from the template with your elbow partner.
DISCUSSION Supports for “Mother to Son” Turn and Talk: Answer the questions from the template with your elbow partner.
FINDING ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
Work expectationsNOW YOU TRY Work expectations •Choose a text that you’d plan to teach with your students. •Create a lesson plan by completing the CommonLit Close Reading Template.
@CommonLit rob@commonlit.org matt@commonlit.org
APPENDIX A: HOSTED GUIDEBOOKS 2.0 TEXTS
th
4 grade
• “The Fisherman and his Wife” by the Brothers Grimm
• “Paul Revere’s Ride” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• The Declaration of Independence by Thomas JeffersonAPPENDIX A: HOSTED GUIDEBOOKS 2.0 TEXTS
th
5 grade
• Excerpt from “The Story of My Life” by Helen Keller
• “Columbus” by Joaquin Miller
• Letter to the Treasurer of Spain from Christopher Columbus
• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, “Down the Rabbit Hole” by Lewis Carroll
• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, “Alice’s Evidence” by Lewis Carroll
• “The New Colossus” by Emma LazarusAPPENDIX A: HOSTED GUIDEBOOKS 2.0 TEXTS
th
6 grade
• “On Drought Conditions” by Franklin D. Roosevelt
• “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost
• “Identity” by Julio Noboa Polanco
• Steve Jobs’ Stanford University Commencement Speech
• The Story of David and Goliath
• “Mother to Son” by Langston Hughes
• “Casey at the Bat” by Ernest Lawrence ThayerAPPENDIX A: HOSTED GUIDEBOOKS 2.0 TEXTS
th
7 grade
• “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost
• “Eleven” by Sandra Cisneros
• Excerpt from Peter Pan, “When Wendy Grew Up” by J.M. Barrie
• “Seventh Grade” by Gary Soto
• Excerpt from “A Christmas Carol”: Marley’s Ghost by Charles Dickens
• Excerpt from “A Christmas Carol”: The Second of the Three Spirits by Charles Dickens
• “The Gift of the Magi” by O. Henry
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Excerpts from chaps. 1 & 7
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Excerpt from chap. 11
• Letter from Frederick Douglass to Harriet TubmanAPPENDIX A: HOSTED GUIDEBOOKS 2.0 TEXTS
th
8 grade
• “To Build a Fire” by Jack London
• “The Story of Prometheus and Pandora’s Box” by James Baldwin
• Excerpt from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
• “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe
• “The Ransom of Red Chief” by O. Henry
• “Allegory of the Cave” by Plato
• “The Blind Men and the Elephant” by John Godfrey Saxe
• “Conservation as a National Duty” by Theodore RooseveltAPPENDIX A: HOSTED GUIDEBOOKS 2.0 TEXTS
th
9 grade
• “Burning a Book” by William Stafford
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Excerpts from chaps. 1 & 7
• “I am Very Real” by Kurt Vonnegut (“You Have Insulted Me: A Letter”)
• “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” by Mark Twain
• “An Uncomfortable Bed” by Guy de Maupassant
• “The Ransom of Red Chief” by O. Henry
• “The Gettysburg Address” by Abraham Lincoln
• The Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson
• “I Have a Dream” by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Excerpts from “Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare
• Excerpts from “Romeo and Juliet,” Act V Scene III by William Shakespeare
• “A Poison Tree” by William Blake
• “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe
• “Teenage Brains are Malleable and Vulnerable, Researchers Say” by John Hamilton
• “On Revenge” by Sir Francis BaconAPPENDIX A: HOSTED GUIDEBOOKS 2.0 TEXTS
th
10 grade
• “Speech to the Second Virginia Convention” by Patrick Henry
• “Pearl Harbor Address to the Nation” by Franklin D. Roosevelt
• “Address to Congress on Women’s Suffrage” by Carrie Chapman Catt
• The Jungle, excerpt from chapter 14 by Upton Sinclair
• The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
• “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• “The Nose” by Nikolai Gogol
• Metamorphoses, “The Transformation of Arachne into a Spider” by Ovid
• “The White Man’s Burden” by Rudyard Kipling
• “Languages” by Carl Sandburg
• “The Second Coming” by William Butler YeatsAPPENDIX A: HOSTED GUIDEBOOKS 2.0 TEXTS
th
11 grade
• “On Indian Removal” (1830) by Andrew Jackson
• Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
• “Second Inaugural Address” by Abraham Lincoln
• “The Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedom” by Thomas Jefferson
• “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor
• “Every Man a King” by Huey P. Long
• “Fear of Change” by Henry Ford
• “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner
• “Mending Wall” by Robert Frost
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Excerpt from Chapter 2 by Mark Twain
• Excerpt from “Self-Reliance” by Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin
• Excerpts from “Song of Myself” by Walt Whitman
• “The Interlopers” by Saki
• “The Fallacy of Success” by G. K. Chesterton
• “Hollywood Dreams of Wealth, Youth, and Beauty” by Bob Mondello
• “I Hear America Singing” by Walt Whitman
• “American Dream Faces Harsh New Reality” by Ari ShapiroAPPENDIX A: HOSTED GUIDEBOOKS 2.0 TEXTS
th
12 grade
• Excerpts from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
• “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T. S. Eliot
• “The Lady of Shalott” by Alfred Lloyd Tennyson
• “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe
• Pygmalion by Ovid (lower level version than the George Bernard Shaw text)
• “A Modest Proposal” by Jonathan SwiftYou can also read
